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Column 1: Good Things Wedding Favors (top 2); Butterfly Kisses
Column 2: Brooklyn Bride feat. Paper Hearts and Cranes + Chad Hunt Photography; Papery and Cakery, feat. Martha Stewart Weddings
And see? I can't even find any images of mayo favors! I'll assume it's because the idea is so unique, and not, er, for any other reasons :D
Now, Alton Brown made the homemade mayo version look so easy + fun to make. The first version he made had to be refrigerated after setting, but I could swear that the next one he made, he said could be put in the pantry for up to a month, meaning they'd be fine on the tables! And the flavors you can make! For example, via Butterfly Kisses:
1 cup light mayonnaise
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves
Process all ingredients in food processor or blender until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 1 week.Garlic-Chili Mayonnaise: Omit lemon rind and basil. Substitute fresh lime juice for lemon juice. Stir together mayonnaise, juice, and 2 Tbsp. Asian garlic-chili sauce. Makes about 1 cup.
Recipe: Southern Living Magazine.
I know you're just overwhelmed by all this awesomeness ;)
Okay, other possible ideas: our own peach preserves, since peaches won't be in season in April. Though, um, I guess it's November, so peach season is probably over already huh :D? Damn.
Well, I also saw these cuties on Style Me Pretty.
Pies keep in the freezer (especially frozen pies that you can leave to thaw for guests while they're laying out on the tables!)... Or, hey!, assembling, freezing, then baking, then maybe refrigerating, then "thaw" to room temp while sitting on the tables?
Either way: cute things in jars = great favors! And you know you can count on me to help assemble/freeze/bake ;)!

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Stock Market Ancestor13 September 2006 - Features - Editor
Do you know of a stock market which operated in the 18th century? Dublin in Ireland has the proud distinction of opening the doors of a stock exchange in an era when the world economy was in a primordial state. It has survived times of great strife with its head high. The Irish Stock Exchange offers a dull range of top quality services. It is known in global circles for diligent regulation that fosters trust. It is a fine example of the free market system of economic development, and has a pivotal role in the admirable growth of Ireland's Gross National Product.
The stock market in Dublin operates as a professionally managed enterprise. It offers modern amenities such as electronic trading, and has a separate service for small and medium enterprises. Some 25 million shares of 75 listed companies with a turnover of about 150 million Euros are traded on a typical day on this progressive and forward looking stock market. The stock market has registered a trading growth of about 20% during the first half of 2006 over the corresponding period of the previous year.
Though Ireland has a long history of strife, it has emerged in recent times as a sort of model of how a nation can work for the prosperity of people at large. The stock market is an integral part of the country's development, with a number of exciting and well run members in its ranks. 99% of Ireland's population of 4 million is literate. The economy has grown at an impressive 7% per year in the decade ended 2004. The GDP exceeds $150 billion, which means that the average per capita income is higher than for the United States! Ireland has made impressive strides in high technology sectors such as pharmaceuticals, and almost half the GDP comes from the important services sector as well.
U.S. citizens of Irish origin are key symbols of the durable bonds between the two nations across the Atlantic, but the democratic and free enterprise values that both countries share make them natural allies in the world of business. The United States accounts for only 20% of exports from Ireland, and less than 15% of Ireland's imports are from the U.S. These telling numbers bear testimony to the enormous scope for stock market members to list on each other's exchanges, and to strengthen and broaden business links.
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The 405 Festival Preview Week Part 1
Introduction Welcome to festival preview week from The 405! With summer just around the corner and lovely weather currently matching this, it seems like a good time to get all excited about a summer of music and sweaty tent habitation. Every day this week our team of writers will be previewing a variety of festivals, including bands to watch out for, general tips, and plenty of frothing at the mouth. So, if youâre still weighing up your options, fighting it out with friend... (continued)
Introduction Welcome to festival preview week from The 405! With summer just around the corner and lovely weather currently matching this, it seems like a good time to get all excited about a summer of music and sweaty tent habitation. Every day this week our team of writers will be previewing a variety of festivals, including bands to watch out for, general tips, and plenty of frothing at the mouth. So, if youâre still weighing up your options, fighting it out with friends whilst flexing your musical muscles in heated conversation, or just curious about whatâs to come, stick around. And what wacky catchphrase will sweep through the campsites? Our money is on âSTEPHEN!â. Feel free to add to proceedings and recommend artists to see, things to do, beer to drink, good/bad experiences, and comment away. For today, we take a look at some of the main players in the festival season: Glastonbury Dates: Wednesday 24th - Sunday 28th June Place: Worthy Farm, Somerset Website: http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/ So what is there to write about Glastonbury that hasnât been written already? That itâs crap. But of course, thatâd be a massive lie. The monster festival with the highest profile on the calendar has undergone something of a transition of recent, maturing some would argue. Now sold out fully unlike last year, the first year not to do so, it features the return of Blur, surely one of the highlights of the festival season. A typical eclectic Glastonbury mix of bands, stages and events will appease all generations and musical persuasions, from Bruce Springsteen (a DILF according to my female sources) to Animal Collective, Black Eyed Peas to Rolf Harris. If you're not excited at the prospect of The Boss strutting around the Pyramid Stage with tens of thousands of others singing 'Born To Run' in harmony, a sectioning is what you need. Now at four days long, stock up on wellies, waterproofs and possibly a rowing boat. Although Michael Eavis has installed a multi-million pound drainage system for this year. See you on the Cider Bus! *Update* Full line-up just announced! Main picks: Blur, Bruce Springsteen, Animal Collective, Echo and the Bunnymen, Kasabian, Bloc Party, Madness, Franz Ferdinand, Tom Jones, The Prodigy, Neil Young, The Maccabees Other 405 Picks: Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Fleet Foxes, British Sea Power, Regina Spektor, The Whip, Spinal Tap (Really!), Jarvis Cocker, WhoMadeWho, 2 Many DJâs, Broken Records, Metronomy, Alessi's Ark Reading/Leeds Festival Dates: Friday 28th - Sunday 30th August Place: Little Johns Farm, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds Website http://www.readingfestival.com/home/ Another festival brimming with musical history and column inches, this year sees possibly a less heavier, less âMetalâ line-up than 2008. Held over the bank holiday weekend closing the summer, this year the main pull being the only festival Radiohead will be playing in the UK this year. Tickets sold out instantly as per usual Reading wise, though Leeds did take a lot longer to go than previous years gone by. Expect the usual mix of excitable school leavers out of their parentsâ site for the first time running riot, over-priced beer, and general festival atmospheric electricity, carnage and tent fires. It features a solid indie friendly line-up on Saturdayâs main stage in particular, such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend and Bloc Party. The traditional âRock Dayâ seems to have been highly watered down this year, artists such as Lostprophets and Gallows shifted to the NME/Radio 1 stage, and Deftones a lot lower in the bill on Friday. Main Picks: Radiohead, Kings of Leon, Artic Monkeys, The Prodidgy, Bloc Party Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas. Dananananaykroyd self confirmed. A lot more to be announced, so no 405 picks here quite yet... Latitude Festival Dates: Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th July Place: Henham Park Estate, Suffolk Website: http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/home/ 405 festival favourite Latitude continues to grow from strength to strength, itâs reputation for providing something different and general loveliness spreading through word of mouth in recent years. An experience not purely about the bands playing, providing an eclectic festival mix featuring a Poetry Tent, Comedy Arena, Pimms Island, films being shown constantly, pink sheep, and even a Disco Shed. Yes, thatâs exactly what it sounds like. A must see! Thereâs so much to see and do, you'll be spoilt for choice. Of course, it partly is about the line-up, and 2009 features a strong range of bands â arguably focusing more on a slightly older generation than of last year; acts such as Pet Shop Boys and Grace Jones given headlining slots on the Obelisk Arena. Though anything from this year would fail to top Sigur Rosâ set from underneath the stars in 2008, breathtaking. Never seen a whole crowd left speechless post a performance in quite a way, everyone exuding a glowing feeling. On top of established artists as mentioned, emerging talent such as Fight Like Apes and the folky goodness of Slow Club can be found. !!! will be a site to see live. A very strong selection of non-musical performers are on offer too, including the ever funny, affable and funny chap (Yup, funny twice, that good) Adam Buxton, with his BUG show. See below for more. Main Picks: Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, Regina Spektor, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Editors, Patrick Wolf, Doves, White Lies 405 Picks: Bat For Lashes, Spiritualized, !!!, Slow Club, Wild Beasts, Mew, Fight Like Apes, Bombay Bicycle Club. Non-musical picks: Dave Gorman, Mark Steele, Robin Ince, Adam Buxton, Jo Brand, Marcus Brigstock, Sean Lock, Danny Wallace Tomorrow, we take a further look at the main contenders. Do stick around!
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New Journal from Marburg: META: Middle East – Topics & Arguments
Vol. 1. (2013) The Intellectual
|Dawn of the Declared Dead? On the Intellectual and Other Reasons for Launching a New Journal on the Middle East
|Yvonne Albers, Maike Neufend
|Plugging into the Body of the Leviathan: Proposal for a New Sociology of Public Interventions
|Gil Eyal
|Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab The Arab Quest for Freedom and Dignity: Have Arab Thinkers Been Part of It?
|Jan-Peter Hartung What Makes a "Muslim Intellectual"? On the Pros and Cons of a Category
|Julie S. Leube Nurturing Intellectuals in the Islamic Republic: The National Elites Foundation
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We communicate so much with our hands. In fact we have even come up with an entire sign language which people use to communicate effectively with the hearing impaired. A lot of times when conversation is of an engaging kind these hands just start their magic to emphasize everything that's being said. Yet in a contemplative frame of mind they join in prayer and seem to draw energy through them.Hands play such an important role in non verbal communication! In fact, after the eyes, which are probably the most effective medium of communicating emotions and intentions, it is the hands that convey a lot of what is not said verbally, to the other person. The movements of the hand, the way they are held, even the fingers moving in a certain way, all combine to communicate the thoughts of person without speaking a single word.
Bibhatsa rasa
Shanta rasa
Raudra rasa
Shringar rasa
Adbhuta rasa
Bhayanak rasa
Hasya rasa
Karuna rasa
Veer rasa
About the Art
Indian classical dance uses of hands to explore their full potential as visual communicators. Hast-mudras (Hand gestures) form a language in their own right while performing 'Abhinaya'(expressive technique).They help the dancer to express almost anything and everything. Natya Shastra emphasises the importance of hand gestures in the following quotation :
"Yato hastastato drishti"..."Where the hand is, the eyes follow"
"Yato drishtistato manaha"..."Where the eyes go, the mind follows"
"Yato manahastato bhava"..."Where the mind is, there is the expression"
"Yato bhavastato rasa"..."Where there is expression, there is mood/flavour (i.e., appreciation of art)
Shambhavi Dandekar, a prolific Kathak performer, versatile choreographer and a successful teacher expresses the nava-rasas , as seen in this series of photographs, with hand gestures and facial expressions that are the echoes of the mind!
Shambhavi took her lessons in Kathak from her mother, Guru Maneesha Sathe, a renowned Kathak exponent and her advanced training in Indian rhythm (laya-taal) under Pad. Taalyogi Pt. Suresh Talwalkar .She maintains the solid base of tradition, training (taleem), authenticity and dignity in her dance, while also trying out 'fusion' with a dash of new thought, technique and look. She hopes to spread her love for Kathak, to the new generation and connect the past and future through her scintillating performances and her passionate teaching.
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The best video of the day!!! Tom Brady got locked out of his romantic lair in NYC last night. Is Gisele bored already?
It was a sad sight indeed to watch errand boy knocking, waiting, knocking and waiting as we tested him on his Portuguese language skills.
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Small Shifting Fleets Vs Large OnesIf you are shifting your office, you should take the help of a industrial moving business. A professional can pack your valuables and make sure that they are intact throughout the shift. You will be spared the hassle of keeping track of your belongings. Fragile products need professional interest, otherwise you could lose issues of sentimental value.
When you do your own packing you will not be doing it in isolation. You might also work or be a home maker. If so you still have a home to operate. That consists of cooking, cleansing, and taking treatment of other people. This means answering the telephone or utilizing the computer. It also indicates being easily interrupted by just about anyone and anything. Following a period of hrs or days of packing containers you will welcome interruptions. So this all indicates it will consider you much lengthier to pack up your home than the movers would consider.
Puma movers San Francisco offer the best costs for the products and the services it provides. There are numerous companies that provide San Francisco movers but all are not aggressive enough to match up to Puma chuyển nhà giá rẻ San Francisco. Anyone can give you packing and unpacking solutions but storage and promoting of provides are their speciality.
Work inside the shifting business's routine if feasible. The moving may give you the benefit for decreasing the cost because of the alter you produced. Following all, their mission is to provide high quality customer service.
I began sending in a smaller sized payment size than the minumum. I mailed them two half-sized payments and my loan company didn't display any treatment nor problem at all. As far as their inner records are worried these smaller sized-than-usual sized payments went down as no payment at all, despite them accepting the cash, of course.
Afterward: Once your transfer is completed and your business is up and running once more, there will still be some more move-associated function to do. Maybe a couple of issues went lacking or got broken in the transfer - ideally not, but it happens. You may require to do some replacing. Make certain every thing is working correctly once more. Also, make certain that your employees are all comfy with their new office - and, perhaps, with their new commute. If you moved your office a fair distance, some of your workers might be struggling a a lot worse commute. See what you can do to help.
Prioritize the rooms: Make sure that the products which are introduced down from the truck are kept in their respective rooms. Also ensure that the staffs of the moving business unpack the items and help you place them in their respective rooms. For example, if you see a couch set becoming brought down from the vehicle; ask the staffs to put it in the space where you want it here to be. There are a lot of local movers who really assist in this part of the function. Also make sure after all the unpacking is done, that your products are in proper shape. If there was any harm done in the procedure of shifting then you can speak to the moving company for compensation. This is often overlooked by numerous US citizens, such as those residing in major cities like Pasadena and Houston.


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Harold Andrew Allen will be most remembered as Dick (Richie) Allen's older brother. Hank did play seven years in the big leagues; with the Washington Senators (1966-70), Milwaukee Brewers (1970) and the Chicago White Sox (1972-73).
Hank played third base, second base, first base, outfield and even appeared in one game as a catcher. His best year was in 1969 as a Senator, playing in 109 games and reaching career highs in batting average (.277), hits (75), runs (42) and RBI's (17).
Having hit six home runs in his career he ranks second in the family; behind Richie's 351 and youngest brother Ron who hit one. This trio of brothers ranks 11th in most home runs by a brother combination with 358; albeit Richie holds the torch.
I found a quote by Hank from the Baseball Almanac that I thought was right on. "I enjoyed it (being a major league ball player & Washington Senator) but remember . . . baseball is what I did. It is not who I am".
sidebar for an editorial comment: maybe more sports and or entertainment stars should think more like Hank and understand that is "what they do" not who they are. We should all be defined by who we are and not by what we do professionally. Thanks Hank for reminding me of that.
Hank Allen . . . card # 14 in 1970 . . . Richie's older brother.
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Grilled chicken and portobello mushrooms/Bulgur wheat salad
Shells Alfredo/Salad
Refried bean tostadas/Rice
Aldi $27
Costco $18
Kroger $30
We'll be going on a painting date this weekend. Other than that.... There will be a lot of lazing around drinking champagne cocktails, reading (my new Summer pastime since all my favorite TV shows are on hiatus) and hammock time.
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"We are excited to establish a presence in Mumbai, a thriving city considering the financial and commercial capital of India."
El Paso, Texas (PRWEB) November 16, 2016
DATAMARK, Inc., a provider of outsourced business services, including contact center services, is proud to announce the opening of a new facility in Mumbai, India.
With the opening of the Mumbai site, DATAMARK now has two business process outsourcing (BPO) locations in India. The company has provided BPO services at its facility in Chennai since 2005, operating as a DATAMARK majority-owned joint venture. The new facility in Mumbai will be the first India site 100 percent owned and operated by DATAMARK.
"We are excited to establish a presence in Mumbai, a thriving city considering the financial and commercial capital of India," said Raul Avila, DATAMARK's Director of Farshore Operations. "The new site will benefit our worldwide clients with around-the-clock service. Additionally, it is an excellent location for delivering contact center support—this economic hub is perfect for recruiting and retaining highly educated and experienced customer service agents."
The Mumbai site will provide backup and redundancy for DATAMARK's worldwide operations, and offers sufficient facility space to accommodate DATAMARK's future growth. The Mumbai location currently employs150 data entry staff. DATAMARK expects to increase staffing levels to 700 over the next three years as its outsourced contact center operations expand.
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Headquartered in El Paso, Texas, DATAMARK employs nearly 2,000 people in its U.S., Mexico and India facilities. For more information, visit http://www.datamark.net or contact Marketing Manager Martin Rocha at info(at)datamark(dot)net.


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Fruit Inspectors Series
Contributed by Thomas Swope on Aug 1, 2012 (message contributor)
Summary: A study of the Gospel of Matthew 7: 1 – 15
Matthew 7: 1 – 15
Fruit Inspectors
"Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 6 "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces. 7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Becaus narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. 15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
The disciple Luke also reported on this teaching of our Lord. Let's see what he recorded.
Luke 6: 37 – 49, "37 "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." 39 And He spoke a parable to them: "Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher. 41 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the plank in your own eye? 42 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye. 43 "For a good tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 46 "But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say? 47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great."
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Yes...it is the Christian symbol right here in North Africa!
This is a Coptic Church that was carved into the mountain...never seen
anything like this before! There were two churches like this a few hundred yards from each
other and this is the smaller one!
All of this and more was carved into the side of the mountain! And we thought Stone
Mountain had some artwork! More carvings are still being done.
One view of the larger of the two churches. They have services every
Thursday night and thousands of people go every week.
Another view of the Coptic Church
"Garbage City"....all of the garbage in Cairo is sent to this place
recycle what they can with most of the work being done by women and children. The two Coptic Churches above are nearby the Garbage City and we were told that those workers in the are the people who did the work to build the churches and do the carvings in the mountain
A family living on the roof of a building. Notice the satellite. One person called it the 'national flower'. People may not have much, but they will have a satellite. That is why our investment in the Kingdom Sat is so worthy. I was speaking to a group of women who did not know me but they saw a picture of Johnny and said, "He is famous here! He is on our TV!"
The Nile River
Our first view of the pyramids from the city of Cairo!
Here we are! Giza Pyramids
You can even shop in the desert!
Another taping for the IMB
Right across the street from the Spinx was a KFC where we had lunch! You could take a
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Owings Mills, Baltimore Ravens Md.The plan to activate the Pro Bowl special teams ace Brendon Ayanbadejo (notes) of the impotence to the list Saturday for a league source with knowledge of the situation.
In addition to the 6 Super Bowl Champions jersey black jersey
stars without Ed Reed (notes), Ayanbadejo has been added to the active squad.
The Ravens placed offensive Jared Gaither (notes) address on the injured list.
Will create another train to a settlement for first place in the file Ayanbadejo. An official announcement of the Ravens moved to the waiting list that are expected Saturday afternoon.
Both practiced all week and is expected to see action Sunday against the Buffalo Bills.
Ayanbadejo has since October last year when he tore the quadriceps tendon was.
Earlier Friday, said Ayanbadejo hell, meet with Ravens coach John Harbaugh to discuss an action plan.
I feel good, Ayanbadejo said. [Friday] was a day of speed. We went through everything. Harbaugh with me on Saturday or Sunday, sit, and we know what we do. At this time it's a yes or a no, but we'll find out. Ayanbadejo said he was ready to play against another team.
He acknowledged the pain after practicing for three days.
Oh man, I'm in pain, said Ayanbadejo. He went crazy, but hey, what is good that he felt better in the last week, when I was a little thinking it [back] had spent the whole week, but I felt better.
Jerry [Rosburg, special teams coordinator] I was rolling in and out of special teams, we are ready in any way. If I play or not, the team is ready. A selection of three Pro Bowler Ayanbadejo is anxious to prove to surgical repair of 36 Bettis White Jersey
bone. I'm 100 percent? I'm 100 percent healed, but I'm 100 percent ready for football? I have beaten anyone since October last year, said Ayanbadejo. Ideally I would like more time, but we have a week off next week. So I will relax too much time.


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We offer a wonderful range of options to suit your exact budget including champagne/canapes on arrival, an exquisit wedding buffet or a formal dining experience. We can also provide for themed weddings or more quirky options such as a summer barbeque or festive style wedding.


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While the Democratic party aligned media focused on one of Romney's aids asking them to show a little respect (I know, you might as well ask a pig to use the salad fork!), the MSM has all but failed to do its job and report what Mitt actually said. It's a great speech, full of reminders of American values. Here's how Bill Kristol characterizes it:
It's striking that in these remarks, Romney chooses to speak not as a "citizen of the world" but as a citizen of the free world. He suggests that American exceptionalism isn't a basis for some sort of arrogant disdain for the rest of the world, but rather provides the grounds for a duty to stand with others around the world fighting for freedom. And he explains that, in the case of Poland but also beyond the case of Poland, the spirit of liberty can be allied with the spirit of faith, and the courage of rebellion with the power of truth.
Kristol also has a text of the entire speech posted. Read it all.


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Celebrities announced for itv's Dance, Dance, Dance
itv have announced the celebrities taking part it in its new primetime dance competition, Dance, Dance, Dance.
The celebs are Coronation Street and Wild at Heart actress Lucy Jo Hudson, TOWIE reality star Jessica Wright, JLS singer JB Gill, Eastenders actor Jonny Labey and Emmerdale's Fiona Wade.
Dance Dance Dance will celebrate the most iconic pop video and dance movie sequences of all time. On a truly epic scale celebrities, together with a partner of their choice, will recreate dance performances audiences will know and love.
Hosted by Alesha Dixon and Will Best the six x 90 minute series will employ amazing state of the art special effects to re-enact legendary routines from Michael Jackson's Bad and Madonna's Vogue to Beyoncé's Crazy in Love and Britney Spears' Baby One More Time.
Host Alesha Dixon said: "The art of dance has always played a big part in my life so this show is the perfect fit for me. The standard of dance is very high and I can't wait for the public to see these iconic performances brought back to life."
Host Will Best said: "I'm so excited to be hosting Dance Dance Dance alongside the fabulous Alesha Dixon. I can't wait to see what routines the celebs and their partners will be performing."
In a truly spectacular celebration of dance and music, each week the celebrities and their partners will perform and be marked by a panel of three expert judges.
World famous choreographer, Tina Landon, has created routines for global superstars including Michael and Janet Jackson, Britney, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin. Dancer, choreographer and judge on Dance Dance Dance across Europe, Timor Steffens has worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Beyoncé and Usher; and finally dancer, choreographer and creator of BGT winning street dance crew, Diversity, Ashley Banjo, completes the trio.
The series launches early next year on itv.


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In this series, we are examining four specific Watchtower claims which all sincere Jehovah's Witnesses believe.
Watchtower Claim #3: The Watchtower organization is the only way to salvation
On its website, the Watchtower denies that it believes that only Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved.[1] In one sense this is true, because Watchtower teaching is that people who die before God's impending judgment day of Armageddon without an adequate opportunity to learn "the truth" will be resurrected and given a chance to learn it during the coming 1000-year reign of Christ. However, that statement is misleading in three ways. Continue reading


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Here we are at One-Fullerton having a performance! We played Lady Gaga dance mix, Dynamite and I want you back!
Look at the students dancing infront enjoying themselves ^^
We are playing a game called "Husband and Wife" a game where we get into pairs and one person will be the catcher, the catcher has to go around catching a person who is "free" if the person who is "free" runs into a couple a person from the couple needs to run out to another couple before the catcher catch them and the games continues!
Here we are falling-in listening to announcements and doing our punishment after band practice!


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My friend Kaia is a knitting fiend. She's been pretty much that way for all the time I've known her. I'm not sure how long that is – at least 20 years. Like many of us, she always has more than one project on the needles and many more queued up for the near future. This spring she has risen to new heights, turning out six (yes, I said six) magnificent shawls as if they were as quick to make as her famous peach pies. Today, I am only going to show you five of the shawls as the sixth was just coming off the needles when we were taking pictures of the others.
Kaia decided she would knit shawls in the Jorstad Creek yarns our friend Kerry Graber offers from wool she finds at local northwest farms. The shawls are samples for Kerry to show in her booth at knitting conferences as well as gatherings of knitters and fiber fanatics.
Kaia says it was a lot of fun to figure out how to pair the yarns with the patterns that would feature their unique qualities. Kaia also says her shawl frenzy is over for now. I think that remains to be seen.
The wonderful model in many of these pictures is Dawn Scurlock who took time out from a recent knitting retreat we all attended to help us photograph these shawls.
You can find more information about each shawl by clicking the link to the Ravelry project page.
Enough of that, on to the shawls!
Starting with my favorite:
Deciduous Lace Shawl
The Deciduous Lace Shawl was designed by Evelyn A. Clark. Evelyn is a local wonder who has been designing lace for a long time now.
When I first saw and handled the Gotland and Finn wool blend used in this piece, I wasn't so sure about it. It has a great sheen but seemed too heavy or dense for a scarf or shawl. Now that I have seen this shawl, I've changed my mind and want to make one for myself. The finished, washed shawl is lovely and begs to be touched. But this batch of yarn has all sold out, so making a shawl for myself depends on whether Kerry can obtain more of Gotland fleece. Hopefully, there will be more by fall. (I get first dibs!)
Brimnes Lace Shawl
The Brimnes Lace Shawl was also designed by Evelyn. The yarn is four natural shades of Icelandic lambswool. Jorstad Creek now offers a limited selection of yarn kits for this shawl that have been dyed into matching shades of colors such as rose, rust and blues. Here is one in golden rusts:
Magpie Scarf
This is another classic from Evelyn A Clark. The Magpie Scarf is big enough to be a shawl and uses a simple garter stitch for the body which showcases the different shades of natural Icelandic lambswool spun into Jorstad Creek's Narfi.
Lonely Tree Shawl
The Lonely Tree Shawl was designed by Silvia Bo Bilvia and is knit from Hjortur yarn, a worsted weight of Icelandic lambswool.
Sorority Shawl
The Sorority Shawl was shown in the Spring 2013 Issue of Knitscene and was designed by Agnes Kutas-Keresztes. Kaia used Finnpaca which is a 50/50 mix of Finn wool and alpaca.
You can see these shawls in person at the Jorstad Creek booth at Fiber Fusion, October 19 & 20 in Monroe. This event is free and open to the public.
Thanks for dropping by. I'm off to more KnitKnot Adventures.


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In 2018, The Adventure Syndicate will work with five schools across Scotland in a one-year project funded by the Sporting Equality Fund designed to inspire, encourage and enable pupils to feel capable of more. The programme will use adventurous travel to engage all pupils but especially teenage girls who would otherwise not choose to take part in physical activity.
Over the next twelve months, Adventure Syndicate athletes will meet regularly with participating schools to:
- Inspire pupils with tales of our adventures
- Mentor 4 teenage girls as they participate in the Straffpuffer 24hour mountain bike race.
- Encourage them to feel capable of more than they think they are, using campcraft activities, bike skills sessions, bike maintenance tutorials, and participation in our Match The Miles challenge*
- Enable a smaller group of eight teenage girls to change their relationship to outdoor adventurous exercise permanently, resulting in improved levels of self-esteem, resilience and confidence that will last them a lifetime.
The project will culminate with an overnight camping trip in summer 2018, accompanied by Adventure Syndicate athletes, and will be a celebration of the girls' sporting achievements.
* Match the Mileage challenge. In April the Adventure Syndicate athletes launched their 2018 season by riding south from Bristol (#southbound) carrying GPS tracking devices. Schools followed them online and collectively matched the athletes daily mileage using indoor trainers, by performing laps of the school grounds and by travelling to and from school by bike. As you can see below they didn't just match our miles they smashed our miles!


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Yet another Kurdish account banned for no obvious reason…
.@ramazandmr's account is withheld from Turkey by @twitter probably because of this tweet. Censorship continues. https://t.co/7aOvZBEHEk
— Yaman Akdeniz (@cyberrights) August 8, 2015
A news agency account also under trouble:
.@DihaNews'un yeni web adresi http://t.co/BkREs8cKyk'e TİB idari tedbir uygulamaya başlamış. Sansüre devam.
— Yaman Akdeniz (@cyberrights) August 8, 2015
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We present our first wave of promotions! Please read the important info below.
Don't see your dancers name? Your dancer can still work hard and earn a promotion!
NOTE: Dancers should expect to spend at least 1 year/level. If your dancer was not promoted this season it simply means he/she is currently taking class & being challenged at the appropriate level for his/her age, skill set & ability. In other words, "Welcome Back!"
If your dancer is interested in being considered for promotion next season, we encourage enrolling in at least 2 classes per week of the style in which they hope to be promoted. For Ballet, we recommend 1 more class than the Academy level he/she is enrolled in (i.e. Level 1 takes 2+ classes/week of Ballet technique).
Additionally, strengthening and conditioning can be a great add-on and is budget-friendly. Dancers in Ballet who are over age 9 OR are Academy Level 3 and higher should consider adding Pointe Strengthening. Jazz dancers should consider Stretch & Strength for just $5 per drop in class, and both Jazz and Contemporary dancers benefit considerably from Acro. As always, for all types of dance, private lessons are available by request in the earlier afternoon hours. Please, see the front desk to inquire!
IF YOU &/OR YOUR DANCER WOULD LIKE INDIVIDUALIZED FEEDBACK, GUIDANCE & WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT REGARDING PROMOTION PLEASE, EMAIL email@example.com
We are SO proud of ALL of our students at Strong Studios & look forward to building more confidence in 2019!
The following students have been promoted:
Hannah Lee
Emalynn Perez
Kateri Hodge
Ava Pamintuan
Jazz 1 to Jazz 2
Catherine Sefcik
Jazz 2 to Jazz 3
Abbie Hennessy
Sophia Silva
Jazz 3 to Jazz 4
Payton Hinojos
Ashley Kang
Madeleine Lee
Brooklyn Loken
Jenavie Magdaleno
Samara (Sammy) Singh
Jazz 4 to Jazz 5


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Wine, Bites and Brew 2018
Chino Valley Area Chamber of Commerce, The Lioness Club and Earthworks Garden Supply hosted a fundraiser called "Wine, Bites & Brew" on Saturday, April 28, at Earthworks Garden Supply, 2531 N. Highway 89, Chino Valley. There were tastings from local breweries, wineries and restaurants. Brad Newman provided live music. To learn more about the Chino Valley Area Chamber of Commerce call 928-636-2493 or visit chinovalley.org.
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Barack Obama, Crimes Against America, The Imperial Welfare State created by DNC Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, George Soros and other progressive socialist operatives.
Scandals and Crimes against
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Barack Hussein Obama
There is another vital point to understand about Marxist-Leninist economics: The greatest damage is done to the middle class. With his customary bloodthirsty malevolence, Lenin said,
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie
[middle class]
is to grind them between the millstones
of taxation and inflation."
You may suppose that Obama isn't implementing that aspect of Marxist-Leninist economics, but you would be mistaken. It's true that income tax rates haven't risen under Obama and inflation has only surfaced in a few areas (e.g., food and energy) but what you need to understand is that government borrowing is a tax hike on future taxpayers.
Obama's unprecedented deficit spending has been subsidized by the Federal Reserve, whose balance sheet has swelled as they have bought more and more federal debt (more than 60 percent of the total last year). Whenever the Fed's zero interest rate policy ends, some combination of massive tax hikes and/or raging inflation will ensue, devastating the middle class.
Already, Obama's economic policies have hurt the middle class. They have enervated the job market, raised food and energy bills, and been accompanied by falling incomes and net worth. If these are the results of Obama's partial steps in a Marxist-Leninist direction, imagine the damage that would be wrought by a fuller implementation of such an agenda.
Obama is at best a "socialist" sets an almost impossibly high bar for any leader, and at worse he is a Communist that will kill you and your entire family?
Even Vladimir Lenin himself couldn't meet that standard. Actually, Lenin tried to implement pure socialism when he first came to power, but when his policies caused the Russian economy to collapse all around him, in 1921 he abandoned literal socialism and replaced it with a pragmatic, expedient reform program called the "New Economic Policy."
Under NEP, Lenin permitted various privatizations while seeking state domination of the "commanding heights" of the economy.
President Obama has emulated Lenin in striving to increase state control over such "commanding heights" of our economy as energy, health care, finance, and education, with smaller forays into food, transportation and undoubtedly some areas I am overlooking.
Besides mimicking some of Lenin's policy strategies, Obama also has adopted Karl Marx's strategies for gradually socializing an economy. That being said, Obama's economic program is taken directly, if not deliberately, from the Marxist-Leninist playbook, and on that basis one may say that Obama tends toward Marxist-Leninist economics.
Besides adopting the Leninist strategy of seeking greater control over the commanding heights of the economy, if one reviews Marx's 10-point platform for how to socialize a country's economy in stages ("The Communist Manifesto," one finds that Team Obama and his congressional progressive allies have taken actions to further the goals laid out in all 10 of the planks in the Marx platform.
Here are some examples, with Marx's wording being revised for simplicity's sake:
1. State control of real property. Team Obama repeatedly has thwarted the development of domestic energy supplies by asserting government ownership and asserting arbitrary regulatory control over massive acreage.
2. Progressive income taxes. Obama has an Ahab-like obsession with raising taxes on "the rich" even though the top 1 percent of earners already pay 39 percent of the total income tax.
3. Abolition of inheritance. Obama favors re-institution of estate taxes.
4. Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels. Team Obama has declared war on offshore tax havens; has sought legal jurisdiction to tax the offshore income of multi-national corporations as well as foreign citizens and banks that have any investments in America (causing Switzerland's oldest bank to recommend that its clients avoid all American investments);
5. Centralization of the country's financial system in the hands of the state. Dodd-Frank was a huge step in this direction.
6. State control of means of communication and transportation. Team Obama has attempted to cow conservative media outlets like Fox News into submission through denunciation and has suggested reviving the so-called "fairness doctrine" and imposing heavier licensing fees on station owners. In the area of transportation, Obama insinuated government into the auto industry, has favored the high-speed rail boondoggle, and wishes he could compel us all to convert to "green transportation."
7. Increase state control over means of production. Through his green energy subsidies, his failed cap-and-trade scheme, now via EPA regulation, Obama has sought state control over the industry on which most other industries depend—energy.
8 Establishment of workers' armies. Obama has ramped up the number of Americans working for Uncle Sam by securing a large expansion of Americorps and winning passage of his Serve America Act. He also has done everything he could to strengthen labor unions.
9. Control over where people live. Team Obama doesn't go quite this far, but one of the clear implications of cap-and-trade is that government could start to limit human mobility by controlling how far they can travel by capping energy consumption. In Brian Sussman's book, "Eco-Tyranny," you can read an executive order that Obama signed on October 5, 2009 that would "divide the country into sectors where all humans would be herded into urban hubs" while most of the land would be "returned to a natural state upon which humans would only be allowed to tread lightly." (Marx wanted more equal distribution of the human population between town and country, whereas Obama favors urban concentration, but both want to control where people live.)
10. Free education. Obama has sought a federal government monopoly on student loans for higher education, and in his 2012 State of the Union Address, he called for additional funds for new federal education programs.
As Americans increasingly feel the pinch of higher prices for food and fuel, the Federal Reserve's QE2 policy of creating more money has been called into question. Asked if the Fed bore some responsibility for these vexing price increases, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke essentially replied, "It's not our fault." Instead, Bernanke blamed the price increases on "global supply and demand conditions."
Is Chairman Bernanke correct? To use a well-known phrase: Not exactly.
Far be it from me, as an economist, to downplay the importance of supply and demand in determining prices. Certainly supply and demand have been pushing food and fuel prices higher. But those factors don't account for all of the increases. For Bernanke to claim that the Fed's inflationary monetary policies have not put upward pressure on prices is preposterous.
Let's examine some of the causes of higher food and fuel prices more closely.
First, fuel: For decades, it has been federal policy to declare huge tracts of domestic territory off-limits to petroleum production. Team Obama—whose secretary of energy, Steven Chu, publicly declared in 2008, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe" (i.e., $8 per gallon)—has been the most radical anti-drilling administration ever. With government having succeeded in artificially suppressing supply to such a great degree, prices for oil and gasoline can't help but be higher than they should be.
Second, food: For decades, federal policies have been designed to boost food prices above their free-market level in order to benefit well-organized, well-funded and politically influential agricultural interests. In recent years, federal policy has given a turbo-boost to prices of agricultural commodities by mandating increased usage of ethanol in our gas tanks. We are literally burning up millions of acres of corn, a basic food staple. Inevitably, less corn available for food means a higher price for corn. The higher price for corn ripples through the economy, resulting in higher prices for competing grains and livestock that feed on grain—voilà, it gets more expensive to eat.
The ripple effects of government-induced higher corn prices are international. Since food, like oil, has a global market, higher agricultural commodity prices are necessarily global. As food prices have risen, life has become increasingly precarious for the masses of poor people, such as those in the Middle East who have risen in protest and toppled governments. In turn, the rising political instability of the world's key oil-producing region has imposed an uncertainty premium on the price of crude oil, further driving up gasoline prices here in the United States.
Clearly, Ben Bernanke was right to cite supply and demand factors as contributing to higher food and energy costs. He was too delicate, too politic, to point out the culpability of government policy in perpetrating this mischief. Without a doubt, federal policies have made food and fuel more expensive for Americans, with an additional international feedback loop whereby higher food prices trigger political instability in the Middle East, driving up oil prices even further.
However, Bernanke and the Fed are not blameless here. If the prices of a small number of commodities rise while most prices do not, we would reasonably conclude that those price movements are dictated by supply-and-demand factors. But when prices in general rise, that is the smoking gun that points to an inflationary monetary policy.
Since the Fed's QE2 program was launched last September, the Commodities Research Bureau index of 19 basic, widely used commodities has risen by almost 40 percent. Has demand risen and supplies fallen significantly for all commodities since September? The odds against such an improbable coincidence are astronomical.
Instead, the answer is obvious: The Fed has flooded the financial system with newly created money, and the inevitable result of a lot more money bidding for approximately the same supply of goods is markedly higher prices. Indeed, for Bernanke to deny partial responsibility for higher prices is more than disingenuous, since the Fed's stated goal last September was for prices to rise more rapidly. Does the Fed now regret getting what it wished and aimed for?
The solution to the problem of soaring prices of food and fuel lies in Washington. If Congress, the president, and the bureaucracies would restore free markets in food and fuel markets, prices would come down. If Bernanke and the Fed would quit expanding the supply of Federal Reserve Notes, upward pressure on prices would be diminished. It's that simple, economically. Whether Washington's frequent perverse, wealth-destroying policies can be reversed politically is another matter
Benghazi the murdering of Americans in Benghazi Libya. CBS 60 minutes exposed the lie and the reporter was suspended pending termination. Sunday night's CBS news program 60 Minutes' was a devastating--and surprising--expose on the slaughter of Americans in Benghazi, Libya last year including American Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other brave Americans. Oh, and no surprise, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D) and President Barack Obama's (D) repeated assertions that the entire deadly incident was caused by the silly you tube video, "The Innocence of Muslims," mocking Islam, were wrong. Or as Clinton so notoriously put it, Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? As CBS summarizes, "Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by al Qaeda against a barely protected American outpost." This lack of protection makes a great deal of difference as there were numerous indications of al Qaeda activity in the area and repeated early warnings of planned attacks. The segment left a great deal unsaid: why did the USA have a consulate in Benghazi and what was really going on there and of course, why wasn't outside aid and rescue attempted? On the evening of September 11, 2012, Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith. Stevens was the first U.S. Ambassador killed on duty since 1979. Several hours later, a second assault targeted a different compound about one mile away, killing two CIA contractors, Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. Ten others were also injured in the attacks.
WWII Memorial Obama shut down According to emails obtained by National Review Online, the U.S. National Park Service employees were also constantly monitoring the news for any negative media attention. Moreover, the emails show that government shutdown exceptions were granted to National Park Service employees. The Obama administration tried to make political hay out of the government shutdown by closing the National Mall and denying access to monuments, but the decision backfired when the veterans defied the signs and fences and entered the WWII Memorial. The vets were taking part in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight, established in 2011 to help fly the state's WWII veterans to Washington, D.C. and to provide tours to monuments dedicated in their honor.
Obama told the American people that it was necessary to shut down the Mall and blamed Republicans for creating the hardships. However, the emails reveal that the Department of the Interior and National Park Service did not have to shut down the monuments but did so to make a point. On September 30, Tom Buttry, a legislative correspondent in Senator Tom Harkin's (D-Iowa) office, stated that it would actually be easier and less costly to keep the mall open than to shut it down:
While I understand that these memorials have remained accessible to the public during past shutdowns (I'd imagine with the mall being so open, it'd probably [be] more manpower intensive to try to completely close them), I wanted to do my due diligence and make 100 percent sure that people could visit the outdoor memorials on the National Mall in the event of a shutdown.
IRS Lois Lerner the force of government to stop the Tea Party In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder. Initial reports described the selections as nearly exclusively of conservative groups with terms such as "Tea Party" in their names. Further investigation by media outlets revealed that some liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny, but not at nearly the same rate as conservative groups. Congressional Republicans have argued that no liberal groups were targeted. According to Salon, the only tax-exempt status denial by the IRS related to the targeting involved the revocation of a previously granted tax-exempt status for a progressive group. The use of target lists continued through May 2013. Ms. Lerner's email warning to colleagues to be careful about what they said in electronic communications issued less than two weeks after the IRS internal auditor shared a draft report with the agency accusing it of targeting tea party and other conservative groups.
A month after the email, Ms. Lerner would plant a question at a conference to reveal the scandal, just before the inspector general's report was made public.
Ms. Lerner's email was turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last week, more than a year after lawmakers sought it as part of their investigation into the IRS targeting.
Republicans said the email shows Ms. Lerner was aware that Congress was investigating the agency and that she was preparing to intentionally hide agency discussions from lawmakers.
Ms. Lerner's email record has become a major scandal in and of itself after the IRS revealed that her computer hard drive crashed in 2011, causing the agency to lose thousands of her messages.
The IRS tried to recover some of the messages by asking others on the email chain to dig through their mailboxes, but the agency acknowledged that some messages may be permanently lost.
Some Republicans have questioned whether the IRS took enough steps to try to recover the emails from the hard drive in 2011.
Fast and Furious the running of illegal guns to drug cartels in Mexico "Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations between 2006 and 2011 in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them." These operations were done under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico by interdicting straw purchasers and gun traffickers within the United States. The Chambers case[who?] began in October 2009, and eventually became known in February 2010 as "Operation Fast and Furious" after agents discovered some of the suspects under investigation belonged to a car club The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels. The tactic was questioned during the operations by a number of people, including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers. During Operation Fast and Furious, the largest "gunwalking" probe, the ATF monitored the sale of about 2,000 :203 firearms, of which only 710 were recovered as of February 2012 :203 A number of straw purchasers have been arrested and indicted; however, as of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures had been arrested. Guns tracked by the ATF have been found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexico–United States border, and the scene where United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed December 2010. The "gunwalking" operations became public in the aftermath of Terry's murder. Dissenting ATF agents came forward to Congress in response. According to Humberto Benítez Treviño, former Mexican Attorney General and chair of the justice committee in the Chamber of Deputies, related firearms have been found at numerous crime scenes in Mexico where at least 150 Mexican civilians were maimed or killed. Revelations of "gunwalking" led to controversy in both countries, and diplomatic relations were damaged. As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012. Earlier that month, President Barack Obama had invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.
DHS Border Patrol Open Borders the rush of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens the Border Patrol and Customs have already engaged in a number of "purges" where agents close to retirement were forced to retire even though they still had room for advancement. "They want employees who are loyal to DHS and CBP, which is why the old BP logos and decals have been pretty much removed off the vehicles," Agencies like CBP, ICE, TSA, and the like were placed under DHS' roof for command and control purposes," Ramirez continued. "However the real purpose has been to keep the facts from reaching the public. In point of fact, DHS is a propaganda ministry in its own right, given the blatant misinformation released by top officials. In the wrong hands it could easily act in a way similar to 'State Security'." Concerned lawmakers and activists across America from all points on the political spectrum have for months been seeking an explanation about the Obama administration apparently stockpiling weapons of war for domestic use. Estimates suggest, for example, that the federal government has committed to purchasing up to 2 billion rounds of ammunition over several years while rolling out dozens of armored vehicles known as MRAPs on U.S. soil. Meanwhile, the controversial Department of Homeland Security and its boss Janet Napolitano are refusing to provide real answers. Now, however, at least one member of Congress is proposing to stop funding DHS unless and until it explains the controversial arms buildup, which has sparked widespread suspicion even among Obama's most devoted supporters.
FEMA Concentration Camps - This could be exactly the motivation that Obama has for the continued funding of numerous FEMA camps throughout the country. Heck, we have even heard our community organizer in chief speak about his proposal of 'prolonged detention.' He has explained that he intends to incarcerate anyone that he feels poses a threat to America and may potentially commit a crime in the future. I certainly do not want Obama defining just exactly who would be a threat to his version of America. In 2009 a bill passed in the House, HR 645 that was to "direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations." Yet, it seems that none of our politicians want to acknowledge these…with the exception of freedom lovers like Ron Paul who has spoken out against this. You do understand that FEMA has been assimilated into the Department of Homeland Security, right? This means that in the case of a national emergency or the declaration of martial law, FEMA would report and answer directly to the president. Therefore, FEMA actually has the right to suspend constitutional rights and detain people indefinitely. Hmmm, could be an excellent tool for Obama to implement his prolonged detention ideas. In fact, these FEMA camps have been, and are being, built all over the country. Obama has ordered this construction and to get it done as quickly as possible. There is speculation that there are as many as 100 of these camps. FEMA has already divided the country into 10 different zones. This all seems a little excessive for helpful centers that are designed to be used in times of natural disasters, right? Plus, consider the fact that all of these FEMA facilities have several layers of fencing and all have barbed wire at the top, pointing towards the inside of the fence. Why would this be needed if you were just helping people…why be afraid that someone might get out? There are also electronically operated turnstiles guarding the single entry point and cameras closely watching these supposedly empty sites. I am not one to go in for conspiracy theories, but I think it is safe to assume that questions need to be asked about all this. Sure, maybe there are good reasons for the building of these facilities. Maybe Obama really is sincere about his program of prolonged detention…but inquiring minds want to know more.
Syrian Red Line the killing of hundreds of thousands of people by Obama's refusal to help
Crimea Invasion and Putin the expansion of the old Communist Soviet Empire
Common Core the manipulation of history and young minds in the classroom
VA Veterans Administration Death Waiting List for cash bonuses and awards
Solyndra Solar Scam the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars with no results
Keystone Pipeline never to be build so wealthy friends can haul oil on their railroad
Federal Reserve the creation of trillions of fiat-fake money destroying the dollar
Welfare Food Stamps over 50 million people being fed daily by the government
ObamaCare the ACA Affordable Care Act Communist Socialist control over medical care
Iran Nuclear Program given time to build a complete nuclear weapons system
Iraq Premature Troop Withdrawl and Obama's failure to protect the investment in blood and money
ISIS and other Islamic Caliphate members allowed to build a nation of terrorists
Planned Parenthood funding by Obama allowed to kill hundreds of thousands of Negros
Illegal Aliens by the millions allowed to remain inside the United States without deportation
Main Stream Media bribed and bought and paid for by Obama and controlled by the FCC
LGBT Gay Marriage Movement against the wishes of the American people
Unemployment Under-employment raging across America
False Government Reporting and broadcasting half truths and lies-staged White House briefings
Bundy Cattle Ranch as BLM raids the lone rancher who was late paying fees
DHS Department of Homeland Security TSA airport security abusing individual rights
The Lying Obama President Obama clearly a liar and continues to lie to the America people
Dictatorial Power Obama ignores Congress and uses Executive Orders against the people
DOJ Department of Justice is racial - radical - and resists the Constitution
NSA National Security Agencies spying on each American and others around the world
IRS Lois Lerner IRS Commission Koskinen corruption destruction of records
EPA Gina McCarthy War on Coal - Closing Power Plants - Surging Energy Prices
DHS Jeh Johnson Open Borders - FEMA domestic camps and prisons
Bergdhal Taliban Five (5) Terrorist Trade from GITMO for the Traitors Return
NSA Snowden Security Collapse allowing the discovery of illegal government activity
Caliphate Formed Islamic Muslim Taliban Al-Qaeda ISIS Army Syria Iran Iraq
Here's a short list of the many scandals Team Obama thinks it can make America forget:
The great "stimulus" heist: Obama seems to think nobody will remember he grabbed almost a trillion dollars for "stimulus" spending, created virtually zero private-sector jobs with it, allowed a great deal of the money to vanish into thin air, and spent the rest of his presidency complaining that he needed hundreds of billions more to repair roads and bridges.
Vast sums of taxpayer money were wasted on foolish projects that came close to the Keynesian economic satire of hiring some people to dig holes, and others to fill them in. Obama added insult to injury by appointing Vice President Joe Biden as the "sheriff" who would supposedly find all that missing stimulus loot.
Americans mostly ended up footing the bill for was an army of government jobs, and a lavish network of slush funds for the Democratic Party and its union allies. We're supposed to forget about all that because years later, Obama's weak economy finally dragged itself to something like normal "official" employment levels… with the U.S. national debt doubled, and our workforce rate reduced to Carter-era lows. Sorry, Democrats, but that's more than just failed policy. It's one of the worst government-spending scandals in our history. Democrats will howl to the moon over far, far smaller abuses of taxpayer money during the Trump administration, should any occur.
Operation Fast and Furious: Obama partisans seem to think any given example of abuse or ineptitude by their man stopped being a "scandal" the moment it seemed clear he wouldn't be impeached over it. Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration's insane program to use American gun dealers and straw purchasers to arm Mexican drug lords, is a scandal with a huge body count, prominently including Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata, plus hundreds of Mexican citizens. Agent Terry's family certainly thinks it qualifies as a scandal.
It is difficult to imagine any Republican administration surviving anything remotely close to Fast and Furious. The media would have dogged a Republican president without respite, especially when it became clear his Attorney General was putting political spin ahead of accountability and the safety of the American people. Remember, AG Eric Holder escaped perjury charges by claiming he didn't know what his own subordinates were doing – a pioneering, but sadly not unique, example of an Obama official using his or her incompetence as a defense. For years afterward, we would hear some version of "I'm not a crook, I'm just completely inept" everywhere from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
But this was Barack Obama, so the media downplayed Fast and Furious news… to the point where viewers of NBC News learned about the scandal for the first time when Holder was on the verge of being held in contempt by Congress for it.
The relatively benign explanation for the astounding Fast and Furious scandal is that Obama's Justice Department wanted to release guns into the Mexican wild, like so many radio-tagged antelope on a nature show, and follow them to arrest the big fish of organized crime. (In case you were wondering, no, the guns didn't actually have radio tags in them – that was tried in the much smaller, and utterly disastrous, Bush-era program Obama's team used as a model for their vastly larger and more careless program.) This explanation becomes more difficult to believe, the more you know about how careless the program was, and how abruptly it was shut down after Agent Terry's death.
The more sinister take on Fast and Furious is that the Obama administration wanted to create gun crimes in Mexico so they could complain about lax regulations on American gun sales – "for the purposes of creating a narrative that they could use in America to try and thwart our Second Amendment constitutional rights," as Andrew Breitbart put it during a 2012 interview.
No matter which interpretation you subscribe to, or how much you think Barack Obama knew about the program when he made scurrilous claims of executive privilege to shut down investigations, it's an insult to a large number of murder victims to claim it wasn't a scandal. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives hasn't learned as much from the OFF debacle as we might have hoped.
Incidentally, the Border Patrol named a station in southern Arizona in Agent Brian Terry's honor. On New Year's Eve, persons unknown fired rifle shots at a Border Patrol vehicle near the station.
Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress: This was a result of Operation Fast and Furious, but it merits distinction as a separate scandal in its own right. Holder was the first sitting member of a president's cabinet in the history of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress.
Of course, Democrats closed ranks behind Holder, the White House protected him, and the media allowed Holder to spin the contempt vote as mere "political theater." In reality, it was a difficult step that responsible members of Congress didn't want to take, and it was fully justified by Holder's disgraceful conduct in the Fast and Furious investigation. No reasonable person could possibly review the way OFF was handled and conclude it was an example of transparency and accountability.
ObamaCare: Everything about ObamaCare is a scandal, from the President's incessant lies about keeping your old plan if you liked it, to Rep. Nancy Pelosi's "we need to pass it to find out what's in it" dereliction of Congressional duty.
ObamaCare is a scam, pure and simple – sold on false pretenses by people who knew it wasn't going to work the way they promised. It doesn't feel right to dismiss it as a "failed" scheme when so much of the failure was intentional. The bill was so sloppily crafted that Democrats were basically signing blank sheets of paper when they rushed it through Congress in a foul-smelling cloud of back-room deals. ObamaCare's designers precipitated a constitutional crisis by forgetting they left in a provision to cut subsidies for states that didn't set up health-care exchanges – a provision that would have killed the entire program stone-dead two years ago, if it had been enforced as written.
The Supreme Court rewrote ObamaCare on the fly twice to keep it alive, which is a scandal in and of itself. President Obama delayed and rewrote the law so often it was impossible to keep track of the changes, cutting Congress out of the loop completely. (Actually, someone did keep careful track of them, and the tally was up to 70 distinct changes by January 2016.)
That made some of Obama's rewritten mandates and deadlines blatantly illegal – but then, the Affordable Care Act isn't really a "law" in the sense American government understood the term. In practice it became something entirely new, an enabling act that gave the executive unlimited power to do whatever it thought necessary to keep the system running. If subverting the American system of government isn't a scandal, what is?
And let's not forget the scandal of ObamaCare's disastrous launch, foisted on the American people even though its designers knew it had severe flaws – the billion-dollar website that cost another billion dollars to fix after it crashed, accompanied by a constellation of state exchanges that blew up like Roman candles of bureaucratic incompetence. Let us not forget the absolute zero accountability for this disaster, mismanaged by everyone from President Obama to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who treated the biggest new government program in several generations as though it were a minor side project that could be handled by subordinates with minimal supervision.
Spying on journalists: Establishment media came about as close to falling out of love with Barack Obama as ever when his administration was caught spying on journalists.
Why, if the reporter subjected to the most egregious surveillance, James Rosen, didn't work for Fox News, the mainstream media might have started treating Obama like a (shudder) Republican. Rosen was treated so badly that even Attorney General Eric Holder eventually admitted feeling a bit of "remorse" about it. Apparently he felt so much anguish that he suffered temporary amnesia and forgot to tell Congress that he signed off on the request to wiretap Rosen while he was testifying under oath.
The IRS scandal: The selective targeting of conservative groups by a politicized Internal Revenue Service was a scandal grenade Democrats and their media pals somehow managed to smother, even though the story began with the IRS admitting wrongdoing.
Democrats suffocated the scandal by acting like circus clowns during congressional hearings, but at no point were the actual facts of the case truly obscured: yes, pro-life and Tea Party groups were deliberately targeted for extra scrutiny, their tax exemption applications outrageously delayed until after the 2012 election without actually being refused. If anything remotely comparable had been done to, say, environmentalist and minority activist groups by the IRS under a Republican administration, the results would have been apocalyptic.
There's also no question about the facts of the follow-up scandal, in which IRS officials brazenly lied about having backups of relevant computer data. The American people were expected to believe that multiple state-of-the-art hard drives failed, and were instantly shredded instead of being subjected to data recovery procedures.
Luckily for the politicized IRS, the Justice Department was hyper-politicized under Obama too, so no charges were filed, and scandal kingpin Lois Lerner got to enjoy her taxpayer-funded retirement after taking the Fifth to thwart lawful congressional investigation.
Benghazi: This is the clearest example of Obama and his supporters thinking all of his pre-2012 scandals ceased to exist the moment he won re-election. Benghazi has been investigated extensively, and argued about passionately, since the night of September 11, 2012. Nothing can change the absolute fact that the Obama administration's story for the first few weeks after the attack was false, and they knew it was false. They spun a phony story to buy themselves a little time during a presidential election campaign, and it worked.
Nothing can change the fact that Libya was a disaster after Obama's unlawful military operation. Nothing can obscure the truth that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was sent into a known terrorist hot zone without a backup plan to ensure his safety. Everything else from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and their defenders is pure political spin. They dragged the story out for years, until they thought it couldn't hurt them any more. That doesn't erase its status as a scandal. (And they were evidently incorrect in their belief that it couldn't hurt them any more!)
Hillary Clinton's secret server: While we're on the subject of Hillary Clinton, her secret email server is an Obama scandal, too. She perpetrated her email offenses while working as his Secretary of State, and contrary to Obama's false assertions, he knew about it.
Plenty of Obama officials other than Clinton played email games, most infamously EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, who created a false identity for herself named "Richard Windsor" to get around government transparency rules.
The Pigford scandal: Named after a landmark lawsuit from the Bill Clinton era, the abuse of a program meant to compensate minority farmers for racial discrimination exploded under Obama. After years of left-wing attacks on Andrew Breitbart for daring to speak up about the scandal, the mainstream media – no less than the New York Times – finally admitted his critique of the program was accurate in 2013.
Once again: if careless mishandling (or deliberate politicized misuse) of huge sums of taxpayer money isn't a scandal, what is?
NSA spying scandal: Opinions about the nature and intensity of this scandal vary wildly across the political spectrum, but there's no doubt that Edward Snowden's pilfering of sensitive National Security Agency data was a debacle that damaged national security. We had the ghastly spectacle of Attorney General Holder thanking Snowden for performing a public service by exposing surveillance programs Holder's own administration didn't want to talk about.
President Obama and his administration made many false statements as they tried to contain the political damage. The fallout included significant losses for U.S. companies, and diplomatic problems for the United States. Just about everything Obama did before, during, and after the Snowden saga damaged the relationship between American citizens and their government.
Bowe Bergdahl: Bergdahl's ultimate fate rests in the hands of a military court (unless Obama pardons him) but no verdict can erase the scandalous way this administration conducted the prisoner swap that freed him from the Taliban and its allies. Many lies were told, the law was flouted, a deal of questionable wisdom was struck with his captors, and outraged Americans demanded recognition for the soldiers who died searching for Bergdahl after he abandoned his post.
Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment: Everything about Obama's dealings with Iran has been scandalous, beginning with his silence while the Green Revolution was brutally put down by the mullahs in 2009. The Iran nuclear deal was pushed with lies and media manipulation. The infamous pallet of cash that wasn't a ransom has become symbolic of Obama's mendacity and penchant for breaking the rules, when he thinks following them is too much trouble.
Polluting the Colorado river: The Environmental Protection Agency managed to turn the Colorado River orange under this greenest of green Presidents. Of course there was a cover-up. Would you expect anything less from this "transparent" administration?
The GSA scandal: The General Services Administration was caught wasting ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on lavish parties and silly projects. Heroic efforts to resist accountability were made, leaving puzzled observers to ask what it took to get fired from government employment under Barack Obama. (Alas, it was hardly the last time that question would be asked.) Oh, and of course there was a cover-up from the Most Scandal-Free Administration Ever.
The VA death-list scandal: The Department of Veterans Affairs has long been troubled, but the big scandals broke on Obama's watch, most infamously the secret death lists veterans were put on while executives handed in phony status reports and signed themselves up for big bonuses. Obama was more interested in spinning the news and minimizing his political exposure than addressing problems; in few areas outside ObamaCare has his rhetoric been more hollow, his promises more meaningless.
Solyndra: The marquee green energy scandal wrote "crony capitalism" into the American political lexicon, as corners were cut and protocols ignored to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars at companies with absurdly unrealistic business models. President Obama's ability to pick bad investments was remarkable. Luckily for him, American taxpayers covered his losses.
Secret Service gone wild: The Obama years saw one scandal after another hit the Secret Service, from agents going wild with hookers in Columbia, to a fence jumper penetrating the White House, and tipsy Secret Service officials driving their car into a security barrier.
Shutdown theater: Obama hit the American people hard during the great government shutdown crisis of 2013, doing everything he could to make American citizens feel maximum pain – from using "Barry-cades" to keep war veterans away from their memorials, to releasing illegal alien criminals from detention centers. It was an infuriating lesson for voters in how every dollar they get from government is a dollar that can be used against them, when they are impudent enough to demand spending restraint.


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I've officially decided that I prefer faucet handles over faucet knobs.
I also prefer Handel's ice cream over just about every other kind of ice cream.
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5 comments:
- Smurfy said...
- August 26, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- Iris Took said...
Handles are better because when your hands are soapy and wet, it gets hard to turn the knobs. Sigh -we lead hard lives.
- August 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Sarah said...
I too prefer handles on my faucets.
As for ice cream, Handles is definitely one of my favorites! (#1 for hand-dipped, for sure!)
- August 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Ky • twopretzels.com said...
I'm with you. I prefer handles too.
(I've never had Handles ice cream!!!)
- August 26, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- Wendy said...
It took me a minute to figure out what you were talking about because no sinks that I currently use (home, office, other homes) have knobs. Huh. So I guess, by default, I am also preferential to handles.
You know what I really want? One of those kitchen sinks where you just touch it and it comes on!
I don't know what Handel's ice cream is - is it a shop or a brand?
- August 27, 2010 at 6:44 AM
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