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Longer Than 55 Fiction!!!
September 19, 2009
One night he had a dream that he was a fly and buzzing around he came upon this house that belonged to his beautiful teenage crush. A girl, he always wanted to be with. He thought to himself, "I should go into that girl's house first and listen to her conversations," but neither the door nor the windows were open. Then he thought, " May be I will just ring the bell and when she will open the door, I will buzz into her house and land on the wall to listen to all her conversations", but to his dismay, flies are not strong enough to ring the bell.
He decided to wait until she opens the door or the window herself. Then finally the door opened, and he buzzed in real quick and landed on the wall admiring the girl and her beauty. After sometime the phone rang and the girl picked it up and started a conversation. He flew and sat on a table, which smelled pretty good to him. He was so excited that he could finally sit so close to her and hear her talk. But when the girl started the conversation, he could not understand a word.
The guy got so pissed and said, "This really sucks!!! I do not want to be a fly anymore and I am getting out of here", but when he went to buzz off, he could not move. "Argh! I can not move, it feels like my feet is glued. Can you give me a hand", he said to the other fly.
"I can not move either, my feet are also stuck" said the other fly. He looked around and said to himself, " I wish, I had never wished that I was a fly, I want to be a human again". He was so scared that finally he woke up and it took him a minute to realize that he is still a human. He went to his balcony and saw his crush standing there, smiling :) and he realized how lucky he is to get his identity back and decided to try his best to get the girl !!!
P.S. - In the recent best seller " The secret" it is stated that, 'we do not always want what we ask for all our lives' and with this short story, I just wanted to convey that it's a great feeling to be yourself as grass is not always greener on the other side and we can achieve a lot with the way we are even if we lack certain qualities, also we can not realize how lucky we are until we experience the problems that others face :) ... Hope you enjoyed :)

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Wireless Revolution
Yesterday morning was terrible. I walked in with my video camera to take a little movie of Jack to show to Janie. What I found was Jack sleeping in a puddle of his own vomit. It was caked over one side of his face, all over his bed, his clothes, and his blankets. I looked around and in this room of 10 babies, there was only one nurse who was far on the other side and very busy with another baby. Okay, I'll work on cleaning him up. His nurse or another will be along shortly. I start cleaning him up.
I want to take him out of his bed but the nurse has tethered his feeding tube to a giant syringe on the side of his crib. I read the notes and she tried feeding him for 15 minutes about 30 minutes earlier, then put the rest in this syringe to go in his tube. His feedings had been increasing so much that he's been throwing up when taking in large doses through the tube. I wait for a nurse, any nurse, to come into the room besides the one that is very busy (and a yell away). I wait a little more. A little more. There are no nurses coming in, only mothers. Besides the one nurse across the room, the usually busy room is completely empty of nurses. Is there some sort of party going on somewhere? Where are all the nurses?
Then I start to get upset. They left my baby alone! He was sleeping in his own vomit and no one noticed! This isn't some 3rd world orphanage, this is the NICU! Where is everyone? Finally a respiratory tech walks by, sees my face and asks if I need help. Yes, I do. Can you get a nurse? My nurse is on break but she's able to get another nurse to come into the room who immediately starts helping me.
By the end of the day I've talked to many people about it including his nurse, the charge nurse, the social worker and the nurse manager. No one can tell me how long he had been laying like this. Instead they tell me that nurses need to take breaks. Yes, I understand that, but shouldn't someone have been watching her babies for her while she was on break?
They try to tell me that the monitors were on so he was in no danger. Perhaps, but I don't want him laying in vomit. Besides, if monitors were all that were needed, then why have so many nurses? They need that human touch. A baby with a history of throwing up on a large feed needs to be checked on after being given an even larger feeding. A monitor is not enough. They need someone to look in on them now and then. A person who cares.
They also tried to tell me that this could have happened to me at home. No, I have a daughter and I never found her like this. When I'd feed her, I'd burp her and if she needed to spit up, she'd do it then. If I did lay her down in another room, I would have heard her get sick on the monitor and checked on her. Heck, I checked on her all the time anyway just to make sure she was breathing.
I tried to explain to them that it's all about trust. I can only leave at night because I'm trusting they are taking care of my baby. This means more than just making sure his heart is beating and his respirations are normal. This is about taking care of his needs. I don't think they got it. Even though they would apologize, they would follow it up with "But..." They have no idea how hard it is to not be there with him all the time. They see bad stuff all the time that a baby laying in and covered with vomit must not be that big of a deal. To me, it was very distressing. I'd had enough of the feeding tube.
So during rounds, the neonatologist and his gaggle of interns, residents and who knows who else (who all happen to be young and female and nodding at whatever he says) were discussing my Jack and his difficulties eating. I then offered up the information on how well he had done at the recreational breastfeeding. I sold my neonatologist on letting me breastfeed on Jack's demand (not scheduled) and suspending all bottle feeds while I'm there. (I think they also wanted to appease me considering that morning.) The free breastfeeding went so well that this morning they removed his feeding tube.(!!!) No more forced feeds. If they give him a bottle, they have to take the time to hold him.
Because we got a second culture back indicating infection in the deep line, they also removed that this morning. (!!!) He then had to have an IV put in and as much as I hate him getting poked, I'm really glad to have that deep line out. (He's finally wireless! I must have said that a million times today. No one gets it but I get a kick out of it every time.)
Today I got to unplug his monitors and carry him off into the pumping room for breastfeeding in private. No beeping, no people, no other baby emergencies, no fiddling with the scales or portable screens, just Jack and Matt and I. (Matt got the day off today on account of rain.) He latched beautifully each time and stayed on for regular feedings. It was like Pinnochio turning into a real boy. Jack was a real baby; untethered by tubes or wires or monitors and able to easily breastfeed.
Matt and I joked about taking him and running. I asked him to act as a block, and I'd run with the football. Our nurse warned us that she had installed lojack. He was not yet paroled, just on conditional probation with house arrest. It was just so nice to hold him and walk with him and feed him in private. The good news is that he should be able to leave on probably Monday or Tuesday when he finishs with the antibiotics. Actually, he should be home by now if it weren't for the infection and SVTs (that one time 12-hour heart trouble).
And I didn't have to pump once at the hospital today. I hate that pump. I really, really do. Pumping doesn't feel anything close to breastfeeding. It's so mechanical. So utilitarian. So cold and bland and colorless. I become a producer of milk instead of feeder of baby. Technically its the same thing, but I think you know what I'm trying to say. I'll be really glad to get him home and be able to pump only 'recreationally' if you know what I mean.
I'm starting to feel like I can exhale a little. I even left tonight at a reasonable hour. I'm very, very excited.
P.S. Thank you all for advice yesterday. I had to delete a couple of entries including last night's because Matt was fooling around on Netscape and found my sight after searching the name of our family's website. It had to do with the picture I had posted of Jack a few days back. Some people could find this in that way, then read what I wrote and take my personal feelings very personally... and so on with all my paranoid stuff. I read each comment at least a few times before I deleted the post and got some great ideas. Definately not assvice. I feel like Sally Fields in her famous oscar acceptance speech except to change it to "You get me. You really get me." I really have been beating myself up over all these feelings. Feeling that I am such a piece of dirt. You are so good to me, helping me up when I'm feeling so low. Thank you. Truly.
Also, although I say a lot of things about the nurses, almost all of them are very kind and very caring. There are a few kooky ones and maybe a negligent one here or there, but for the most part I really love them. They do take good care of Jack and try to see to what we need too. I'd love to think of something I can do for them when he finally gets to come home. I know it sounds funny considering how I started this post, but it is the exception and not the rule. Any ideas to express my gratitude?


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Confession time: I'm a Zynga addict.
Being able to access these games anywhere, coupled with the fact that there is always something to do, makes them unsettlingly compelling to me. Yes, I know the games are mind-numbingly boring — especially as compared to Call of Duty, Mass Effect, and even Monopoly. Nonetheless, I schedule my day around crop harvest windows and stamina refills. I even sneak time from work to collect rewards from my friends' game feeds.
And thus it is with much sadness that I report the latest news: Zynga has invented yet another time trap: Rewardville. What's worse, this new release is not a even game. It simply rewards you for your addiction, offering up virtual coins that can be traded for virtual — but exclusive! — game items. Alas, you get 80 points per game just for playing — and up to 300 coins a day.
Yes, they're an insidious lot, those Zyngans. Instead of overwhelming users with advertisements for another game, Rewardville mindtricks players into continuing their current gameplay by offering cheap (in the sense that it doesn't take away from in-game currency) items. It also teases players with peeks into the features of the other Zynga games, masterfully tipping incipient addicts into full-fledged, twitchy-finger, someone-help-me addiction.
So, that's the news. Now please excuse me while I go rearrange my cows.


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Our school community is buzzing from all the excitement!
Last week, my children's elementary school had a celebration on Tuesday to mark the installation of new fitness equipment and the kickoff of Project Fit America. This is a grant funded award only given to a few schools a year. Only two schools in South Carolina were chosen this year! We are so excited for our school!
Here are some pics from the celebration :) I have to give the organizers credit... it could have been REALLY boring for the kids to listen to so many official speakers. But, throw in some cute cheerleaders, the drum line from the HS marching band, and some really funny mascots, and the kids were quite entertained!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Project Fit America
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Those little cheerleaders are so cute. I used to be a high school cheerleader! That is so awesome that you got new fitness stuff!!ReplyDelete
Wow we LOVE your post and the pictures. Can we put this on our website, or FB page or tweet to your blog...we'd love to share this!!ReplyDelete
-Stacey Cook
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Hi Stacey! Yes, you are more than welcome to share this link! I'm so glad you found it! Thank you for your kind comments :)ReplyDelete
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As many of you know, Brandon and Phoebe are getting married in Taiwan this weekend. I'm so excited for them and am incredibly honored that I get to be there for their big day! :D :D :D
And then of course I started worrying about WHAT IN THE WORLD AM I GOING TO WEAR?! It was quite a quandary.
I did have the foresight to bring a few dresses with me to Taiwan, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to wear those to the wedding. I'd love to have a pretty new dress to wear — except I am not a fan of shopping. I do it out of necessity and a desire to look presentable once in a while. I do not enjoy the process of sifting through rack after rack of clothes only to find that the one article of clothing I like costs three times what I want to pay. (This is why I do not like department stores in Taiwan.) Plus, I feel like I'm not very good at gauging whether something would look good on me or not, so I take forever to decide — unlike my sister, who is a very quick and efficient shopper.
So I spent most of this week complaining to my friends via gchat about my problem of what to wear. (If you were one of the unlucky people who had to put up with that, I am very sorry.) One of those unfortunates was Brian Plimley, who was, as usual, not terribly helpful but oh-so-entertaining. Here's the edited/paraphrased/reformatted version of the conversation we had on Tuesday [comments in brackets]:
me: [whining about dressing woes with desperation so keen it can only conveyed with — count 'em — NINE exclamation marks]
omg i have NO IDEA what to wear!!! and i only have a few days left!!!!!! should i wear the dress i wore to banquet or try to buy a new one?
Brian: i don't remember what you wore to banquet. buy a new one! somehow i don't think that's the expected guy answer haha
me: haha really? why isnt it the guy answer
Brian: i think the guy answer would be, "you look good in whatever, just wear what you already have" [I definitely don't look good in "whatever"]
me: sighhh. id like to have a pretty new dress, but dress shopping is a pain. [whines some more] dislike trying on new dresses that are too expensive. dislike feeling fat. dislike parting with money.
Brian: haha
me: mmmmm… but then there will be PICTURES. so maybe i should get a new dress. arghhhhhhhhh guys have it so easy! dawson just asked me, "blue shirt or white shirt," and he was set [so unfair]
Brian: you could wear the same dress, and just do your hair crazy different or something. or get a tattoo.
me: HAHAHAHAHA wow.
Brian: no one will notice that the dress is the same
me: people will still notice!
Brian: they'll be too busy talking about how linda got a tattoo. you could get some huge dragon on your back with flames shooting down your arms
me: wow thanks.
Brian: i think it'd look good on you! [somehow I doubt it]
me: i think this conversation will make a good blog entry...
Brian: hahaha. awesome. you know i define my success in life by making it into linda's blog [as should all the rest of you :P]
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me: im brainstorming titles. "tattoos = solution to every problem"
Brian: not every problem, just the dress problem. or maybe some other problems. like if you had acne all over your face, i think a tattoo could solve that too
me: "solve your problems by diverting other peoples attention"
Brian: totally. haha it might also apply to my love life. let's see…
me: "let's go out on a date"
girl: "uh, brian, i don't think i --"
me: "OH HEY did i show you this tattoo i just got??"
me: "let's go out on a date"
girl: "uh, brian, i don't think i --"
me: "OH HEY did i show you this tattoo i just got??"
me: HAHAHAHAHAHA i feel like that would be more like what the girl would do though :P
Brian: haha, true. so there's another reason for you to get one! to have an easy out whenever some random guy tries to ask you out
me: for the next time someone proposes to me? [it's happened three times so far]
Brian: although if you have a dragon on your back, that could get kind of awkward
me: umm… yeah, just a bit. [guess I need another strategy]
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me: i still need a blog post title! help me think of a nice catchy one
Brian: oh. uh, "another reason my blog name should be brianplimleyisawesome" [ha, you wish!]
me: -_______- well, i would have a higher chance of considering it if you actually made that your blog. although im kind of tempted to make a fake blog with that name
Brian: yeah. you should definitely make a fake one. you can write a post that encapsulates everything i said about tattoos, but trying to sound like i'm serious [how about I just copy/paste our conversation? Oh wait…]
me: lol YOU should make one! :D
Brian: ehh too lazy
me: i was just about to say that! sounds like too much work. but still, i wish someone would make one. we have the best conversations :P
It's true. We totally do. Brian is one of my favorite people to gchat with EVAR because he is absolutely hilarious. I frequently laugh out loud while chatting with him (even at work) because our conversations are so funny. (But maybe it's one of those have-to-be-there things?)
Oh, and as for what I'm wearing to the wedding tomorrow? You'll see when photos are up! (Er, might be a week or two.) And don't worry, I didn't take his advice. A fire-breathing dragon tattoo would totally cramp my style.
with love,
P.S. I can't believe Dawson made me believe he missed his flight to Taiwan!!! >:(
Oh fine, I'm actually just happy he made it to Taiwan. Can't wait to see him and Brandon and Phoebe tomorrow!!! <3


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In a Sports Illustrated article written in March 2009 it was revealed that "almost 80% of NFL athletes face serious financial distress or bankruptcy within two years of retiring from the league. 60% of NBA players who enjoy longer careers than their NFL colleagues, have similar problems within five years."
As you know, athletes typically make more money than the average person. The minimum NBA contract for a rookie is roughly $490,000.00 annually for the 2011-2012 season according to NBA.com (Think about what it is now with increased salaries). According to Spotrac.com, the minimum rookie contract in the NFL is $465,000.00 for the 2017-2018 season.
That is more than the average person earns in ten years. So how could 80% of NFL athletes and 60% of NBA athletes have financial distress within five years? Excellent question. Allow me to give some potential reasons:
Possibility #1: Financial Decisions
No matter how much money one earns, we all must make wise financial decisions. If you don't have the ability to make those wise decisions, then my suggestions is that you find someone you can trust to assist you with this matter. Notice that I said someone you can trust.
That means you may need to interview a number of financial professionals to find out who you are most comfortable with and slowly establish a relationship with that person or team of people. Over time, you will know if they have your best intentions at heart or is it simply a money grab!
Possibility #2: Misconception
There are two misconceptions that many people make when it comes to earning money. The first is that they will always be able to earn money at the rate they currently are. That is a big mistake. Depending on how a person earns money, as they get older they may not be able to keep up a particular pace. NFL and NBA athletes have a significantly short career as opposed to an office worker (no offense). This means their financial matters need to be handled differently than one who has a slightly longer career.
The second mistake that many make is that, based on their current income level, they believe they are set for life. This is an even bigger mistake. Why? One simple thing—it's called inflation. The simple definition for inflation is the rising cost of the same item over time.
The cost of a loaf of bread in 1967 was $0.50; gas (regular unleaded) was $0.30 a gallon in 1967. Fast forward 50 years to 2017 and the average price of that same loaf of bread is $1.35 and a gallon gas (regular unleaded) is $2.32 per gallon. That is inflation, and that is why no matter what you earn today, it won't be enough on its own down the road. You and I have to develop stream of income that will cause our money to grow over time to defeat or offset the money destroyer named inflation.
Possibility #3: Limited View
We must have an eye on our present financial condition while keeping our long-term financial situation in view. This means we have to make certain provisions now for the future.
Maybe you live in an expensive city like Los Angeles or New York City. As you get closer to retirement, you have to decide if you can afford to continue living in these cities after retirement. If the answer is no, a plan must be developed to identify a city that maybe more suitable for your future budget that is realistic. This may mean that you begin to search for a property in that new city.
There are countless possibilities when it comes to this matter. The key idea here is to begin thinking about the future while having the pulse of today.


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Nick Jonas To Play Marius in Les Miserables
We are so psyched! Nick Jonas just tweeted the good news— That he will play Marius in Les Miserables.
On Twitter, Thursday 27th May 2010, @nickjonas said:
I am so excited to announce that I will be performing in Les Miserables once again! The amazing Cameron Macintosh reached out to me last year about portraying the role of Marius in London at the West End. When I was ten years old I was in Les Miserables as Gavroche. On my closing night in 2003 I told my parents that I would come back to be Marius one day. It is truly a dream come true. More details will be coming soon. Can't wait to see the fans who make it out to the show! Love you all. Special thanks to Cameron for this amazing opportunity. "I Dreamed a Dream" and they seem to be coming true.
P.S. To all of you who figured out the riddle… Well done.


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My friend Sarah sent me a last minute Facebook invite to a fundraiser for the East Tennessee Kidney Foundation. They were doing a class at Painting with a Twist. I've been wanting to try one of those classes for a while, so Amy and I decided to go.
Let me start by saying this: I am not what you might call an artist. Yes, I am crafty. I can crochet, I can imagine, I can create... I cannot draw. That had me a little nervous, but I figured that it was for a good cause. And even if I hated it I could gift it to someone else later. :-)
When I sat down at the canvas, I already knew this could have the potential to get deep. I have the tendency to look for the life lessons in certain activities, and I knew that had the possibility to pop up here. It did. I realized that creating this painting was going to be a lot like making it through life.
You start with a blank canvas. Maybe a few suggested colors, but you can use them how you choose.
You work to establish your background. Sometimes it gets a little messed up...
|I said that was an abstract eagle, Amy said
it was a mountain. Whatever it was, I didn't
do it on purpose.
|Bye bye, eagle mountain.
|I thought I was done, so I took a pic of what
it looked like after this step...
|But then I decided it needed a branch near
the bottom of the trunk...
|Oh! and some off that one branch on the
Then you start doing what other people tell you to do and it all goes to pot.
|This is where I stopped loving my picture
And blend to get it to where you are ok with it.
Then you realize you were just looking at it the wrong way...
|I decided I love my painting as a branch
more than as a tree.
So yeah... even if things don't always turn out the way you pictured them, that doesn't mean it's wrong. Maybe you just need to look at it differently.
For the record, I really had a great time. I just don't get along with sponges and painting. There was a time that I was trying to sponge paint a wall in Greg's house, and it ended with my lying in the floor nearly in tears over the fact that it wasn't doing what I wanted.
This is what we were supposed to be painting....
I think it's adorable, but it's not really "me." Which is cool, because my tree isn't a tree, it's a branch. And I love it even more as a branch. It alludes to the fact that it's part of something bigger than itself. Which I am.


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Snickers is the most tweeted candy for Halloween.
The chocolate bar, made by privately held Mars, managed to top the list as the most-mentioned candy leading to Halloween, with 5,303 tweets over the one-week period, according to E.Life, a social-media monitoring and analysis vendor, which tracked 11 top candy brands from Oct. 20 to Oct. 27.
Candy corn came in second, with 4,592 tweets. Hershey
On the flip side, Nestle's (OTC BB: NSRGY.PK) 100 Grand bar received the fewest tweets, with just 46 mentions.
Snickers, which was named after the Mars family's favorite horse, was often mentioned in relation to a Halloween-themed commercial, which hundreds of people tagged as creepy.
Commercials for Mars' Twix bar were also discussed often, with comments from a number of women who said the ads promote cheating and lying. Justin Bieber's fondness for Twix makes "bieberfact" the third most common hashtag for Twix.
Hershey's Kisses are mentioned more than twice as many times as Hershey bars.
E.Life tracked Snickers, Hershey, Twix, and 100 Grand, along with Reese's (another Hershey product), Mars' Milky Way and 3 Musketeers, and Nestle's Kit Kat, Butterfinger, and Nestle Crunch.
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text: Apple is facing a legal showdown with the FBI over control of its encryption code. The iPhone maker is resisting court orders to bypass security on the phone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, who took part in the killing of 14 people in San Bernadino last year. Apple is standing firm for now and has received support from other technology giants – but how far is its boss Tim Cook willing to go to preserve his company's claim to user security?


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Jeff and Mike have a misunderstanding and get upset at each other. Rather than communicating, Mike starts yelling at Jeff and turns a small problem into a big one.
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We all could use reminders of slowing down our actions when things get heated. This video shows how not communicating can lead to bigger problems. Brainstorm different situations where friends can use words to diffuse a situation.


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Guess what I am doing now? Having my computer science class. Its so boring right now. Half of the class isnt around because today is the last day of term 1. Everyone is just skipping class to go home and relax. Since I am such a good student. I decided to stay for the whole day which is until 3pm. Hehe. Apllicable Maths after lunch. All my friends arent around too. Its going to be lonely lunch today. Anyway, thats all for now. Lecturer is still talking so cant type too much. Hehe. See ya peeps.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
How I Use my Authority and Dominion Against Severe Weather!
I live in the Midwest or Tornado Alley as some call it, however, once I
really began meditating on the Word of God and embracing His Words to live a
life like Jesus wanted us to have, severe weather like tornadoes, and damaging
winds no longer frighten me. I stand up and rebuke bad weather every time it
comes near my house and property.
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Gorsuch Will Give Big Donors More Power in Elections, a Key Reason to Oppose His Confirmation
Judge Neil Gorsuch's troubling record on money in politics and concern that he'll tilt our elections even more toward the wealthy and powerful is a key reason to oppose his lifetime confirmation to the Supreme Court, at least 20 U.S. Senators have said in their statements opposing him.
Citing his Hobby Lobby ruling that extends the "corporations are people" logic of Citizens United, his belief that contribution limits deserve a higher level of scrutiny than is usually afforded to voting rights, and his general history of siding with the wealthy and powerful, these Senators believe Gorsuch will give big donors more power in our elections and make it harder for everyday people to be heard.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer referenced Gorsuch's decision in the Hickenlooper case, saying, "I saw a Judge who, on the issue of money in politics, seems to be in the same company as Justices Thomas and Scalia —willing to restrict the most common-sense contribution limits."
- Announcing his opposition to Gorsuch ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee vote on his nomination today, Judiciary Committee member Sen. Pat Leahy said Gorsuch, "misstated the holding of Citizens United in an attempt to evade my question about Congress's ability to enact campaign finance legislation."
- Sen. Maggie Hassan said, "Judge Gorsuch's history of siding with corporations and his vague responses on the Citizens United decision suggest that he would rule to continue allowing unlimited, dark money to overwhelm our political system and the voices of everyday Americans."
- Sen. Claire McCaskill said, "I cannot and will not support a nominee that allows dark and dirty anonymous money to continue to flood unchecked into our elections."
- Sen. Jon Tester said, "With Judge Gorsuch on the bench, I am deeply concerned that dark money will continue to drown out the voices and votes of citizens." He continued, "And, according to Judge Gorsuch's opinion in Riddle v. Hickenlooper, he believes campaign contributions deserve First Amendment protections. Montanans know: money is not speech."
- Sen. Mark Warner noted Gorsuch's evasiveness during his confirmation hearing, "even refusing to answer questions regarding his views of cases like Roe v. Wade and Citizens United."
- Sen. Gary Peters said, "[Gorsuch] has also failed to acknowledge how deeply the Citizens United decision has corrupted our government by opening the floodgates for special interest money to pour into our elections."
- Sen. Chris Van Hollen said, "In Citizens United, we watched the Court trample over statutes and ample Supreme Court precedent to empower corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to elect representatives who will do their bidding."
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said, "I was also disheartened by his evasive answers to questions regarding the Citizens United decision, which has dramatically increased the amount of secret money in politics."
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar said, "I also focused on the judge's approach to campaign finance law. Since Citizens United, hidden super-sized PAC money has had an outsized influence in our politics, distorting our representative democracy. In a concurring opinion in Riddle v. Hickenlooper, Judge Gorsuch went out of his way to suggest that the Court should apply strict scrutiny to laws restricting campaign contributions. If the Supreme Court adopted that view, it could compromise the few remaining campaign finance protections that are still on the books."
- Sen. Chris Murphy said, "Citizens United remains as one of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court in my lifetime, as it flooded our democracy with unlimited, secret, special interest and billionaire money.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes Gorsuch because, "We cannot stand by while the court dismantles the Voting Rights Act and lets cowards in statehouses erect roadblocks to voting. We must keep campaigns free of the corrupting influence of big money and not go further down the dangerous path that began with the disastrous Citizens United ruling."
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said he will not support Gorsuchbecause he "gave him every chance" during his hearing but Gorsuch did not give recognize as legitimate the concern that "the flood of money into politics after Citizens United has had an evil effect on our democracy."
- In her statement opposing Gorsuch, Sen. Patty Murray said, "His testimony before the Judiciary Committee regarding Citizens United, in which he incorrectly stated that the Court left Congress the ability to enact commonsense campaign spending limits, strengthens my decision."
- Sen. Tom Udall says Gorsuch's failure to answer basic questionson a variety of issues–including "dark money in our elections"–was a reason to oppose him.
- Sen. Bob Casey noted, "It is little wonder that corporate special interests on the right placed Judge Gorsuch's name on a list of litmus-tested judges from which they demanded the President choose his nominee."
- Sen. Kamala Harris worries that Gorsuch will preserve the institution that "gutted the Voting Rights Act" and "empowered corporations to pollute our political system with secret, unaccountable money." She wrote, "Judge Gorsuch's record also shows he's willing to favor corporations over the American people."
- Sen. Jeff Merkley, said in his statement opposing Gorsuch's nomination, that appointing him would "threaten fundamental rights in America" including "the rights of ordinary citizens to have their voices heard in elections rather than being drowned out by the corrupting influence of dark money from the richest Americans."
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren while explaining her opposition on Facebook wrote, "We don't need another justice who spends his time looking out for those with money and influence."
- Sen. Sherrod Brown said in a statement, "The people of Ohio deserve Supreme Court Justices who will defend the rights of working families over Wall Street and corporate special interests — and Judge Gorsuch's record doesn't pass that test. I cannot support any nominee who does not recognize that corporations are not people."
If Gorsuch is unable to reach the 60 vote threshold during his confirmation process, something seven of the eight sitting Justices were able to do, President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans should change the nominee, not the rules. Trump should pick a mainstream, consensus nominee more in line with the majority of Americans who oppose decisions like Citizens United and believe the wealthy already have too much influence in our elections.
This piece was originally published on the Every Voice blog.
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A Little Pink in a World of Camo: I've Been Missing - Sorry guys, didn't mean to worry you. The last couple weeks have been supremely busy. I had some 1/6 widsters stay with me last week and the memorial was this weekend. The week before that was probably not "busy" my mind has just been so cluttered. Shit's gotten real. There's no other way I can put it. Hold on, before I go there, let me back track. Widster time was pretty nice. We laughed together, cried together. Shared our notification stories. I got to show my videos of my babe, read my notes... we looked at pictures. We drank some alcohol some nights and didn't other nights and hung out and just enjoyed being in the company of others who "get it." We prepared together for a weekend that would make everything a bit more real, a bit more final. And that is exactly what it did. We had a memorial dinner. The battalion gave us spouses Eagle, Globe and Anchor necklaces. (READ MORE)
Bouhammer: WTF is going on in this world? - I am amazed at the mainstream media and the wannabe mainstream media in this world. Last week the Washington Post published a 3 day series of stories that they spent two years researching and investigating to expose many of the locations, agencies and companies who help this country with its intelligence gathering tasks. I am not sure what their purpose was or why they did it? I mean to say "see look what harm we can do to our great country that we all live in". Did they think that Americans didn't know we have many, many people and groups dedicated to try and keep this country safe and that they must work in a classified world to do that? Now we have wikileaks at it again exposing some 90,000 US military records that they somehow came in possession of that are all about Afghanistan and our operations there. These guys are despicable and need to quit stealing oxygen from the rest of us. (READ MORE)
Army Blogger Wife: Thank you Army - Every once in a while I am thankful for things that the Army does. Not too often, but they can surprise you. Gunner got his flight delayed three days because of the move. Every little bit counts. The Army is letting them off about thirty minutes early every day to have more family time. Not a whole lot of time, but I'm not going to complain. This past week they had half days, 4 day, then half days this week. Paternity leave. While we are done, done, done, having babies, I like that they give paternity leave to the Soldiers. If you have a child due during the deployment, your Soldier will get paternity leave when they return. Funny thing is that Gunner had a great chain of command when Em and Abs arrived and he got paternity leave. With Junior, not so much, but that's okay. I love, love, love, love that the Army moves you. They are not moving us from where we live now to where we are going, because it is a local move. (READ MORE)
Battle Rattle: To beret, or not to beret - Every so often, it seems, the Marines-wear-beret rumor rears its head. Usually it's when leathernecks get the chance to question or schmooze with senior brass. Back before the Army in 2001 standardized the beret for all soldiers, every so often some bold and usually gung-ho junior Marine would ask or suggest the wear of berets. No commandant or uniform board approved such an idea, however. Battle Rattle recalls a day back in the mid-'90s, when a young Marine joined others greeting then-commandant Gen. Chuck Krulak on a ship's mess decks asked the four-star general why Recon Marines couldn't wear the black beret, so they could stand out as being, well, elite, he argued. The general quickly dismissed the question, although Battle Rattle wonders whether that Marine's staff NCOs were less forgiving. Even with the Army's still-controversial adoption of the beret as universal head wear, Marines and the beret remain an ongoing curiosity. (READ MORE)
RAJIV SRINIVASAN: Of Friends and Fighters - West Point isn't the most natural environment for a kid like me: a chubby, Indian-born, vegetarian Hindu. Sometimes, I join my friends and family in marveling how on earth I ended up there, perhaps more so how I made it through. But when considering the recipe to my success at the academy, my heart finds the key ingredient in people like First Lt. Christopher Geoke. Then Cadet Geoke, Chris was my dear friend, my West Point classmate, and my polar opposite. Whereas I was chubby and out of shape, Chris was a physical beast. I was only an average cadet in terms of military discipline, but Chris's military rank was among the highest in the class. I did well academically, but always needed to work twice as hard to get half as far as Chris did. I came from a relatively stable and healthy home life; Chris didn't. And through his life's challenges, Chris discovered his personal relationship with God and served as one of his finest Christian servants. (READ MORE)
C.J. Chivers: Strategic Plans Spawned Bitter End for a Lonely Outpost - Nothing in the documents made public on Sunday offers as vivid a miniature of the Afghan war so far — from hope to heartbreak — as the field reports from one lonely base: Combat Outpost Keating. The outpost was opened in 2006 in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan Province, an area of mountain escarpments, thick forests and deep canyons with a population suspicious of outsiders. The outpost's troops were charged with finding allies among local residents and connecting them to the central government in Kabul, stopping illegal cross-border movement and deterring the insurgency. But the outpost's fate, chronicled in unusually detailed glimpses of a base over nearly three years, illustrates many of the frustrations of the allied effort: low troop levels, unreliable Afghan partners and an insurgency that has grown in skill, determination and its ability to menace. (READ MORE)
Shuja Nawaz: Kayani, a man for many seasons - In a timely though perhaps overly dramatic move, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan announced last night on national television the extension of army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for another three years beyond November this year, when his first term was to end. Timely, since any further delay in announcing it would have led to further speculation and confusion about what was to happen. Dramatic, since the normal manner would have been a press release from the Inter Services Relations Directorate. But then this is Pakistan and anything to do with the army chief makes headlines. And this announcement further strengthens the view that the army continues to be a key player even as democracy struggles to establish itself in a country that has been ruled for more than half its life by the military. This is the first time a civilian government has extended an army chief for a full term. (READ MORE)
better when we're together: I can do this... right? - So, Scott is applying for a job in Iraq/Afghanistan/Kuwait to work on helicopters as a civilian for a year. It would be very much like a deployment (but would pay a heck of a lot better). He would get a mid-year leave, but other than that, I wouldn't see him for another year. He has been bringing this up ever since he came back. And, every time, I have been incredibly hurt and offended. How could he be wanting to run off for another year so quickly? Why risk his life... again... and this time by choice? Today, things really hit a head. It was ugly. But, I finally caved.... with lots of stipulations. He would move me back to Greenville and I would get started on nursing school while living in an apartment on my own. We would finally get a dream honeymoon... no skimping at all! And, this would be the absolute last time he could just run off. If things got tight financially somewhere in the future, this kind of job would no longer be an option. (READ MORE)
The Canada-Afghanistan Blog: A Slightly Longer Take On Wikileaks - I know a lot of people, fellow students mostly, who are gloating about how awesome this is. The Guardian is gushing over the leaked documents, making constant references to the Pentagon Papers. "A new hero of mine" is how Daniel Ellsberg describes the juvenile self-righteous intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq who leaked all these files. A targeted leak, meant to disseminate information that needs to be brought to public attention, is one thing. Militaries all over the world have a sordid history of covering up scandals. There is certainly a time and a place for whistle-blowing. But this was a senseless leak, an act of pure treason. A democratic country with an all-volunteer military operating in the field has a legitimate reason to keep action reports classified. To dump almost 100,000 reports into the public detailing what your fellow soldiers are doing is not principled, it's dangerous and foolhardy, and I hope that everyone responsible for sending these reports to Wikileaks gets locked up for a long, long time. (READ MORE)
America's 1st Sgt: Corporal Joe Wrightsman, United States Marine - The Department of Defense announced the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Cpl. Joe L. Wrightsman, 23, of Jonesboro, La., died July 18 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. While all of the above is true it doesn't sit well with me to merely leave you with that sanitized version of events. As someone who knew Cpl Wrightsman's character, I will do my best to paint for you, the citizens he served, a better picture of an American fighting man. To the best of my knowledge, this is what happened: On July 18, Cpl Wrightsman was part of a patrol crossing the Helmand river when an ANP (Afghan National Police) was swept away in the river behind him. Without hesitation, Cpl Wrightsman, in full personal protective gear, dove into the water in an effort to rescue the ANP. (READ MORE)
FaST Surgeon (in Afghanistan): Picture Of The Day - 25 JUL 2010 "Field Chow" - The Army's delivery of meals (AKA Chow) has changed quite a bit since my initial enlistment. No longer do we eat in the "Mess Hall". Now we "dine" at the Dining Facility (DFAC). Also, most often now you don't see Army cooks, but rather contracted cooks from companies like Fluor and KBR. Well, fortunately for the men and women out in the most forward battlespaces, Army cooks continue to provide hot meals. This is probably THE ONLY good thing these soldiers have at their Combat Outposts (COPs). The Army cooks do a fantastic job of making a variety of meals that actually taste good. I was very pleased to find out that Army cooks still exist and they are very much appreciated. This is a big departure from the Army of the past. So, it is possible for our military to actually improve. Finally.. Why "Mess Hall"? "Mess" is derived from old French "Mes" (further derived from the Latin "mittre"), which means "to put" or "to send". (READ MORE)
Heather Forsgren Weaver: The Deployment Comes Before Reintegration - I had the opportunity yesterday to listen to a teleconference sponsored by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury about life after deployment, reintegrating with your family and life outside a war zone. What I learned is that you can't talk about life after deployment if you don't talk about life during deployment. Being deployed in a war zone teaches you to "enjoy the simple things," said the presenters, each of whom had served in Iraq. Coming home and realizing that people are concerned with things that are really frivolous is a challenge, said Dr. James Bender, who served in Iraq from June 2008 to June 2009 as a brigade psychologist for 1st Cavalry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team. "I was really annoyed at other people's problems," Dr. Bender said. Retired Army Lt. Col. Erin C. McLaughlin said that it takes time to readjust to normal life... (READ MORE)
Ghosts of Alexander: Withdrawing from Afghanistan - Every once and a while an article appears that discusses the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan – particularly how the Soviet/Russian-supported government actually lasted a couple of years. This article in the World Policy Review is just one example. But I'm only going to work from one article for this post, and for good reason: Lester W. Grau, 'Breaking Contact Without Leaving Chaos: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan', Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2007. Grau starts with this introduction: There is a literature and a common perception that the Soviets were defeated and driven from Afghanistan. This is not true. When the Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989, they did so in a coordinated, deliberate, professional manner, leaving behind a functioning government, an improved military and an advisory and economic effort insuring the continued viability of the government. (READ MORE)
Free Range International: Restrepo - Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo. Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, to get the film released in theaters nationwide. This is no easy task for a documentary but, as many of you know, there is a huge groundswell building in the blog sphere over this movie and it is scheduled for runs in cities around the country. This is great news because the one thing Tim stressed in our interview was this is not a film for the military. In the minds of the men who made it this film is designed to show Americans who have no stake in this fight (which is the vast majority) what is being asked of the men and women who are bearing the brunt of battle. (READ MORE)
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan: Sangin – Then and Now in Afghanistan - Captain Marty Adams is serving with 40 Commando Royal Marines in the Sangin District Centre. He was last in the town in 2005 serving with the Mobile Air Operations Team, part of Joint Force Helicopters (Afghanistan). On his return to Sangin five years later, he has noticed how much the centre has changed and developed. As 40 Commando begin working with the United States Marine Corps in the region, the progressed made by British troops in the town has made it a safer place for the locals and ISAF forces. He said: "In 2005 the security outside of the FOB (forward operating base), was practically none. Ourselves as soldiers, we couldn't go outside the FOB for being attacked and occasionally we were attacked inside the FOB. "But since then, due to the progress that we've made, we've managed to push the bubble of security out from this location and beyond the centre of Sangin itself." (READ MORE)
Home From Iraq: 70th Armor Reunion Dinner - Today my kids and I left Georgetown, Kentucky, at 11 am and drove south for five 1/2 hours to Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the 1-70th Armor Reunion Dinner. Lauren and Lisa both dressed up for dinner. Nigel wore his best digital camo t-shirt. I was, as it turned out, in the proper uniform--khaki's and a dress shirt--but the really cool guys and all of the organizers were wearing Land's End polo shirts with Strike Swiftly Tankers logos. One of the first people I met on the way in the door was Captain Paul Davis, my company commander from the time I joined the 70th Armor in late 1975 until he was reassigned in Germany in early 1977. Davis was a great commander for a new tanker moving over from the Air Force. My first assignment was as gunner for Sgt. Ralph Plowman, a tough old guy (almost 30 I think!) from Alabama who taught me a lot about gunnery and taught me by example how to lead a crew. I got my own tank several months later. (READ MORE)
The Kitchen Dispatch: Art As A Path To Understanding The War Experience - Since the beginning of time when man first went to war, there's an oft-repeated sentiment: "Unless you've been in combat, you can't understand what we've been through." There is truth in this, but the bigger problem is that as a nation, we're very good at speaking about things that don't matter. We know more about misbehaving starlets, than how Joe feels after having come back from a year of taking heavy fire, or how Tom is coping raising three kids while his wife Betty is taking small arms fire in the combat zone. Why? Emotional baggage is heavy, only the hardiest of souls take it on. Still, those cloaks we defensively don come with bluster often confused with conversation. That's how we end up in impenetrable camps. Examining my own life there's the writer's camp, the military supporters camp, milspouse, moms, fashionistas, gardeners, and yoga camps. All with needs and desires, some unique, but upon examination, crooked paths merge. (READ MORE)
Knights of Afghanistan: Personnel Changes - The Rug Merchant has returned to his roots and is now concentrating on.........well, selling rugs. Which seems fitting. He's still the head of the company, but he spends a lot less time hanging around the compound and screwing things up. Which is nice. What's not so nice is that he took the Doctor with him to help develop the nascent carpet business. Which means that I've lost the single best employee the company had, a man whom I have depended on for 18 months to hold this outift together. He sticks his head in from time to time, and helps out when he can, but it's not the same as having him around on a daily basis. Needless to say, things are falling through the cracks and some of our supervisors have reverted to their status as useless mouth-breathers. By way of compensation, I got to pick my new Ops Manager and I think I found a good one. So far, he's professional, focused and competent. (READ MORE)
Red Bull Rising: More Ball-Peen Hammer Moments - I've been collecting "ball-peen hammer moments"--times when I've suddenly felt like I've been emotionally smacked between the eyes with a ball-peen hammer--in the months leading up to our unit's deployment to Afghanistan. I first wrote about such pre-deployment surprises here and here. Here are a couple more, for the record: I am at my dentist's office, getting a routine check-up and cleaning. I am in uniform, as I have been the last couple of appointments. When Julie asks when she should schedule our next meeting, I tell her that I'm likely not going to be able to make it. I'll probably be out of the country, I say. I try hard not to make it sound like a certainty. She packs me an extra-full goodie bag of dental hygiene supplies: brushes and rinses and floss. After Dr. Deb comes in, I remind them that I got my best check-up ever following my first deployment. "There was nothing else to do over there but floss," I tell them. They laugh. Later, as I am leaving the appointment, I suddenly find myself being hugged. I stand there, holding my toothbrush. (READ MORE)
Dispatches from AfPak: Death Isn't Tragic, It's Neutral - Naheed Mustafa is a Canadian freelance broadcast and print journalist. She's currently on a reporting trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan and will be posting dispatches from her trip. "They believe killing ordinary people is mubah." The statement came from a Kandahari veteran of the 80s Jihad. I was sitting with him in his house in Kabul, politely trying to drink, without heaving, the Red Bull I was served. He counts leaders of the current insurgency among his friends and former comrades. We were talking about the Taliban. I wondered how the leaders who take pride in modeling themselves after the jihadi archetype of warrior by day and scholar by night, justified killing innocents. And there it was: killing the people in the course of war was "mubah"—morally neutral. The declaration made collateral damage, shariah-compliant. "I have never heard this term used before." When the Kandahari mujahid was a fighter, every death was mourned, he said; dead innocents were seen as heroes deserving of Paradise, he said. (READ MORE)
Sarah: "Time To Move On" - When my husband and I packed up and left for our first duty station, we were leaving the town we'd lived in for six years. The town where we met. The town where we dated. The town where we got our first apartment as a married couple and began our life together. The town that was our home. As we pulled out of town, my husband said he had something for me. He put in a CD and queued up Tom Petty's "Time To Move On." I brushed tears out of my eyes and he smiled at me and said it was time to get going... Now every time we PCS, this CD is one of the things I make sure to take out of the household goods before the packers come. And we play it each time we get going. Each time we have no way of knowing what lies ahead. When I heard the song today, I realized that next year when we PCS, our new daughter will be with us as we play that song leaving town. She will join in on our family PCS tradition. I like that. (READ MORE)
Terry Galvin: "We pray for the Canadians to change their mind and stay." - There is anger and disappointment, mixed with a sense of disbelief, among western supporters in Afghanistan's second largest city over Canada's decision to bring its troops home next summer. "People are very upset about this. Why leave us?" said Jalani Hamayoun, the former deputy governor of Kandahar and a candidate in parliamentary elections in September....from an excellent story by Matthew Fisher, confirming what the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee has found: "Across the spectrum of the many Afghans we have consulted, the anticipated withdrawal of Canadian troops is regarded with a mix of apprehension, resignation, regret, confusion, and gratitude. None were happy with Canada's decision to withdraw troops. This is consistent with a series of national public opinion polls undertaken in Afghanistan about the presence of foreign troops generally." (READ MORE)
The Two Malcontents: Killed By Rules of Engagement - There are few things in life worth saying if they are not completely truthful. It came to me as a harsh reality when in the past few days I came to grips with this truth and that of our combined efforts to force Congress to pay attention to the strategy/non-strategy in Afghanistan was off the mark. We have been fighting for a simple review of COIN and to question whether or not it is viable in this kind of environment and relaying specific evidence of the effect of it's ROE on our Warriors. The problem is that the ROE is affecting every Warrior on the plains of Afghanistan and is specifically responsible for EVERY U.S. AND NATO DEATH there. Every Army assembled for combat must do several things if it is going to win: As of June of 2009, at the latest, CentCom and ISAF made a deliberate decision, under the leadership of this sitting President, to not win. (READ MORE)
The Unknown Soldiers: Putting lives in danger - On September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers, trained and financed by Taliban-harbored terrorists in Afghanistan, launched a series of coordinated attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. On October 7, 2001, President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. military to topple the Taliban regime and destroy al Qaeda inside the country where the attacks on America were planned. On July 25, 2010, with Taliban remnants still threatening Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden still ordering attacks around the world, American troops are fighting valiantly to accomplish a mission now set by President Barack Obama. On this same date, an organization called WikiLeaks put the lives of our brave men and women in danger, as well as the civilians they are ordered to protect. Even in the aftermath of a recent smear attempt against U.S. troops in Iraq that was quickly exposed as a humiliating failure by various experts... (READ MORE)
Chuck Z: In case I have not told Ya'll - I am going back to Iraq in November for 13 months. I will be in Baghdad for that time, on the "turn out the lights and lock up when you leave" tour. Essentially, we will be the last ones in Iraq. Although it pains me to leave Paradise, my family, and my beloved country, (especially for over a year) I see this trip as another step in my recovery... getting back on the horse, as it were. Living in the (still active) war zone that took so much from me last time, but also gave me so much in return. Being wounded has definitely changed my perspective on a lot of things, and shown me in specific relief what is really important in life. It has opened up an entirely different world than the one I was saw before, and this new world is focused on others, instead of centered on myself. Before being wounded, I never really thought about the problems faced by those who were wounded, I never really did much charity work beyond an occasional relay for life or Combined Federal Campaign donation. (READ MORE)
Neptunus Lex: Wikileaks - Julian Assange's collection of hacktivists have published 92,000 classified documents under the heading of the "Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010." Their servers are currently swamped, but whether that is due to service volume, including our friends in Moscow and Beijing hoovering up intel about classified sources and methods, or whether it is due to a distributed denial of service attack is unknown. Ninety-two thousand documents is an enormous trove of material – 75 megabytes – and it's my suspicion that we'll be hearing a great deal more about this over the course of the next few months, as people with their own agendas and biases comb through the database seeking to find information to buttress their own positions or assault others, including the US armed forces and their allies. There are many squalid little miseries and petty disasters in a war zone. One of the first "revelations" in the New York Times, which like the UK Guardian and the German Der Spiegel have had access to the data for several weeks, is the degree of treacherousness we've been treated to by our friends in the Pakistani ISI: (READ MORE)
This Ain't Hell: Supremes to Hear USERRA Case - Military.com reports that the case of a former U.S. Army Reserve Sgt is heading to the Supreme Court. Vincent Staub sued his former employer, Proctor Hospital of Peoria, Ill., in 2004 after being fired from his job. He claims he was let go after fellow employees, bitter or resentful over his taking time off for military service, conspired to damage his job performance. Staub won in district court in Illinois but had the verdict overturned by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in March 2009. I'm hoping that this is a strong case. As others report in the article, if the court rules for the employer, the fallout will cripple USERRA. National Guard and Reserve forces are essential to our national security and must be protected from predatory employment practices. That having been said, most vets I work with don't want to file USERRA complaints because they believe that they will face discrimination if they do get their jobs back. The Supremes need to make sure USERRA keeps it's teeth. (READ MORE)
The Burn Pit: Can it Get Any Hotter – Only If We Hold Their Feet to the Fire. - The troops are waiting and we are all watching. Here we are nearly three weeks after the last post at this blog on the supplemental appropriation needed to support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unfortunately while there has been some activity, one really can't say that there has been all that much forward movement on the appropriation. I know that with the superbly well-informed readership that we enjoy, I really don't need to spend a lot of time educating you on the need for this money. We all have friends and comrades in Iraq and now especially with the upswing in fighting in Afghanistan, the need for that appropriation grows more dire every day. As you know from the earlier post, Congress began considering this appropriation in mid-April knowing the day was coming when it would be not only needed but absolutely necessary. Army Secretary McHugh said then that: "his service can fund the wars through the end of June or beginning of July, at which point it will need the supplemental funding for the remainder of FY '10." (READ MORE)
News from the Home Front:
The War Logs: Reaction to Disclosure of Military Documents on Afghan War - Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, who ran Pakistan's spy service, the ISI, from 1987 to 1989, a time when Pakistani spies and the C.I.A. joined forces to run guns and money to Afghan militias who were battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan, denied allegations in The Times's report on documents that appeared to show ties between the ISI and insurgents. (READ MORE)
U.S. Condemns Release of Documents on Afghan War - Pakistan said the disclosure of about 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan wouldn't affect its relations with the U.S. or its role in the conflict after the White House condemned the leak. (READ MORE)
US says Wikileaks could 'threaten national security' - The United States has condemned as "irresponsible" the leak of 90,000 military records, saying publication could threaten national security. (READ MORE)
House-Senate dispute threatens war funding - House and Senate Democrats are at odds over how to approve additional funding for U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and will not be able resolve wide differences at least until next week. (READ MORE)
Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish - The articles published today are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports — records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan — that were made public on Sunday on the Internet. (READ MORE)
20 years of problems at Arlington Cemetery - From the graves of Supreme Court justices to a section for freed slaves, Arlington National Cemetery seems to have been egalitarian in its mistakes. (READ MORE)
News from the Front:
My Baghdad field trip - "Fifteen kidnapped people released, 238 raids, 14,008 searches, 227 arrests (including 126 without warrants), 18 mortars found, 213 weapons found, eight explosive belts found, four terrorists killed, 167 IEDs dismantled, 18 sticky IEDs dismantled and one car bomb dismantled." (READ MORE)
Bomb Kills 6 at Baghdad Office of Arabic Channel - A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up in front of the Baghdad office of a popular Arabic news station early Monday, killing six people, and burying a lawmaker alive under the rubble of his collapsed home, police and hospital officials said. (READ MORE)
Four Killed In Bomb Attack on Arabiya TV In Baghdad - A suicide bomber killed four people on Monday in an attack targeting the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel in Baghdad, Iraqi security officials said. (READ MORE)
Iraqi Forces Still Frail as US Troops Head Home - When the U.S. ends its combat mission in Iraq five weeks from now, the nation's safety will be in the hands of its homegrown, American-trained security forces. (READ MORE)
Safety burden shifts to State Department after Iraq war - The Obama administration has not settled on a plan to protect and supply thousands of State Department diplomats and employees left behind in Iraq once all but a relatively few U.S. troops leave the county in a little more than a year. (READ MORE)
View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan - A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. (READ MORE)
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation - A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency. (READ MORE)
Tens of thousands of alleged Afghan war documents go online - A whistle-blower website has published what it says are more than 90,000 United States military and diplomatic reports about Afghanistan filed between 2004 and January of this year. (READ MORE)
Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths - Shum Khan, a man both deaf and unable to speak, lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled into his village in March 2007, the war logs record that he "ran at the sight of the approaching coalition forces … out of fear and confusion". (READ MORE)
Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert - Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants... (READ MORE)
Top U.S. officer warns Afghan war will get worse - More NATO troops will die in Afghanistan as violence mounts over the summer, but Washington's goal of turning the tide against the insurgency by year's end is within reach, the top U.S. military officer said on Sunday. (READ MORE)
Taliban: 1 missing US trooper dead, other captured - The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy member they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (READ MORE)
Taliban kills one U.S. sailor, one held, says Afghan gov't - The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy member they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said yesterday. (READ MORE)
Taliban Violence Creating Social Revolution Among Pashtuns - Fifty-three-year-old Abdul Ahad Helmandwal is accustomed to being the go-to guy in one of southern Afghanistan's most violent areas. (READ MORE)
Holbrooke Supports Karzai Talks With Pakistan and Taliban - The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan offered encouragement today for negotiations Afghan President Hamid Karzai has held with Pakistani officials and Taliban leaders. (READ MORE)
Taliban seize key district in Afghan east - Taliban guerrillas have captured a strategic district from the Afghan government after days of clashes in eastern Nuristan province, officials said on Sunday. (READ MORE)
Ban on tobacco ads in UK could fund Al Qaeda, Taliban - Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists will profit from the growth in cigarette smuggling into the UK if a ban on tobacco advertising is implemented, senior defence sources fear. (READ MORE)
Local officials: 1 of 2 abducted U.S. service members killed - One of two American service members who were abducted in Afghanistan on Friday has been killed, provincial government officials said Sunday. (READ MORE)
Dozens of Afghan civilians "killed in NATO raid" - Afghan government on Sunday said locals said, some 40 Afghan civilians were killed in a raid by NATO forces in Sangin district of southern Helmand province on Friday. (READ MORE)
Afghan police secure safe release of 3 Bangladeshi nationals - Afghan police secured the safe release of three Bangladeshi nationals following an operation against abductors in northern Samangan province, spokesman for provincial administration Mohammad Sedeq Azizi said Sunday. (READ MORE)
Two Suspected Insurgents Detained in Ongoing Pursuit of Taliban Commander - An Afghan and coalition security force continued their hunt for a Taliban commander who coordinates attacks against Afghan civilians, Afghan and coalition forces in the village of Abdol Qadar Kalay in Qalat. (READ MORE)
ISAF Investigates Civilian Death in Kunar - ISAF officials are investigating an incident that occurred Friday near the town of Khaki Bandeh in the Watapur district of Kunar province that resulted in the death of an Afghan civilian. Three other civilians were wounded. (READ MORE)
US missiles kill 16 militants in NW Pakistan - U.S. missiles hit a suspected militant hide-out, killing 16 insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border before dawn Saturday, intelligence officials said. (READ MORE)
Pakistan drone attack 'kills 16 militants' - Pakistan's border area has seen frequent drone attacks Missiles fired by a US drone aircraft have killed at least 16 militants in north-west Pakistan, officials say. (READ MORE)
Drone strike in Pakistan kills 16 - A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed 16 alleged militants Saturday morning, Pakistani officials told CNN. (READ MORE)
U.S. Missiles Kill Five in Pakistan - Unmanned U.S. aircraft fired four missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing five suspected militants in the second drone strike in as many days, intelligence officials said. (READ MORE)
Weekend of Pakistan drone attacks leaves 35 dead - Pakistan's border area has seen frequent drone attacks Nineteen people died in three US drone strikes in north-west Pakistan on Sunday, a day after a similar raid killed 16 others, say local officials. (READ MORE)
Neighboring countries wary of thaw in Afghan-Pakistan relations - Recent moves by Afghanistan and Pakistan to improve their once-frosty relationship have prompted deep concern in other countries in the region and led some to consider strengthening ties to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's political rivals. (READ MORE)
Pakistan's Woes Compounded by Severe Water Crisis - Besides grappling with insurgents, suicide bombers and deep poverty, Pakistan is facing a severe crisis as a ballooning population and inefficient farming combine to reduce the availability of water. (READ MORE)
Pakistan denies Wikileaks reports it 'aided Taliban' - The White House says the records refer to a period before the current US strategy came into effect Pakistan has strongly denied claims in leaked US military records that its intelligence agency, the ISI, backed the Taliban in the war in Afghanistan. (READ MORE)
Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It - The Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's secret service, originally helped to build up and deploy the Taliban after Afghanistan descended into a bitter and fratricidal civil war between the mujahedeen who had prevailed over the Soviets and forced their withdrawal. (READ MORE)
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Parolee arrested after search warrant at RHA property
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A man currently on parole was arrested Monday, Sept. 29, after a search warrant was executed inside an apartment owned by the Rockford Housing Authority.
Sept. 29, the Neighborhood Response Unit and Rockford Police District 2 Patrol Officers executed a search warrant at 1502 Birch Court. During the search, police discovered cannabis, drug equipment and packaging materials.
The apartment's sole occupant, 25-year-old Carter Minniefield, was arrested at the scene. Minniefield was charged with possession with the intent to deliver cannabis within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of drug equipment and resisting arrest.
Minniefield is currently on parole for a 2012 drug charge. He is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 16.


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WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — The last time the company responsible for the state's largest saltwater spill had a project before the Public Service Commission, they faced substantial criticism from the Laborer's International Union of North America. This time however, as Summit Midstream Partners' subsidiary Epping Transmission Company sought to build a 3.2-mile oil pipeline that will connect with the Dakota Access terminal in Epping, they drew praise from that same entity.
Evan Whiteford, testifying at the Public Service Commission hearing for the project, Nov. 22, in Williston, said he believes the company has learned from their mistakes and deserves another chance.
"We have had some history with them," Whiteford said. "They've had their ups and downs and leaps and falls. Everyone knows about the big saltwater leak in the Little Muddy system."
That spill leaked an estimated 75,000 barrels of saltwater into the Little Muddy and nearly made it into the Missouri River. Federal agencies tested the water and found that it had been stopped just in time, the Williston Herald (http://bit.ly/2fF1ZWw ) reported. The pipeline, it was later discovered, had leaked for several weeks and perhaps months before being discovered.
A subsequent leak a year later in the same vicinity was discovered much more quickly, thanks to new monitoring systems the company put in place. Zak Covar, vice president of health, safety and regulatory affairs for the family of companies, said the rapidity of response demonstrated that the company's new policies are working. The spill in that case was minimal, Covar testified.
Kevin Pranis, with the Laborer's Union, said in an interview after the hearing that the adoption of a responsible contractor policy by Summit Midstream Partners was a key factor in the union's decision to testify in favor of the Epping Transmission project. Pranis believes the company's policy would be a good roadmap for many other companies in the Bakken.
"A lot of it is frankly ground-breaking in terms of laying out the specifics of what a contractor is required to do," he said. "It sets some clear, specific standards and expectations for contractors and really spells everything out. You are not left to wonder what will be in the contract between pipeline company and contractor."
Specifics on safety training, the type of equipment that must be in service and the transparency expected on reporting incidences are among items the policy spells out.
"These things seem obvious," Pranis said, "but you'd be amazed how many times we witness or interview workers and the realities are opposite of what they should be."
Pranis said a policy like this helps weed out bad contractors and makes future spills a lot less likely.
Spills were a point commissioners highlighted during the proceedings. Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak told the company they would need to file a 10-year spill history for all their pipelines nationwide, not just the ones in North Dakota.
Other homework for the company included detailing the proximity of co-located lines and providing more detail on why they require winter construction, as well as how they will assure reclamation is successful. This must include detailed information on construction plans, as well as the training and experience of the workers involved.
The company is to provide the last Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration audit to the Public Service Commission, as well as additional details on its 24-7 monitoring with its electronic Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems, and more information on how topsoil will be sourced if it is needed.
Fedorchak also suggested the company should show areas where it is going above and beyond requirements, such as taking X-ray images of all welds instead of only 10 percent of them.
"Are there ways that you can show your company's commitment to go above and beyond to mitigate potential leaks or avoid them in the future?" she asked. "That would be helpful to know for the record."
Fedorchak and Commissioner Randy Christmann both stressed throughout the hearing that winter construction is not preferred and repeatedly questioned its necessity, as well as the timing of the company's application for a permit.
"Winter construction is one of the first things on the list to avoid because of challenges for topsoil separation," Fedorchak said. "Especially in North Dakota, topsoil is precious and really thin in some places."
The company indicated at one point it would bring in topsoil if necessary, but that, too, poses concerns, Christmann pointed out. The sourcing of the topsoil would need to be part of the company's documentation with the Public Service Commission.
Christmann was concerned about noxious weed control for the project, since an area near the railroad crossing has some Canadian thistle. He was particularly concerned in light of winter construction, which might make it less apparent where extra precaution is needed.
Commissioners also had questions about the wetlands the line will cross. These don't fall under Waters of the U.S. since they are temporary and have no particular connection to underground hydrology. Whiteford, however, later testified that he believes it better to bore under wetlands in general, instead of making a cut across. Commissioners suggested they'd like to see more documentation about the company's plans for the wetlands and why cutting across would be preferred.
The proposed pipeline was moved to avoid two cultural resource areas that are intact, but goes through a historic dump that has been previously disturbed.
"Will someone be responsible for flagging those two areas off?" Fedorchak asked. "And will there be an environmental inspector on site?"
Company officials testified in the affirmative on these points.
There were also questions about the project's timeline, given that it is to tie into Dakota Access. The line includes two .1-mile 8-inch pipelines in addition to the 3.2-mile 12-inch line, as well as some above ground meters.
Mike Smith testified that the company isn't sure when they will start construction on the lines. It is dependent on completion of Dakota Access, which is presently stuck in the federal permitting process for a 1,000-foot section that crosses under Lake Oahe.
Fedorchak wanted to know what was driving them to winter construction given the situation with Dakota Access.
"There is no end date in the foreseeable future where there will be oil running in that pipeline," she pointed out.
"We want our customers to be connected once it's up and running," Smith said. "Once the pipeline is approved they will start calling for oil to fill the tanks, so they want us to be connected as soon as DAPL is ready to go."
Smith said many customers want access to the pipeline so they can get the best price for their product.
"They see it as a key outlet for Bakken crude," he said, "so they can realize the highest crude price available to them in North Dakota."
Epping Transmission is the sixth company to propose a connection to Dakota Access, for a total of seven connections in all. The other companies have already started construction on connection lines, or have permits in process of being approved for seven connections in all. Tesoro has the two connections, one of which was less than a mile so was not permitted through the Public Service Commission.


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Question: Guruji, whenever I see You, I start running after You. Is this devotion or lack of self respect? Guruji: In the beginning you run, it is ok. But then you should learn to stop and look within. Dive deep within yourself then I will run after you and the whole world will run after… Read more »
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Story of Maharishi Patanjali
Maharishi Patanjali is a saint who is believed to have lived some time during the 2nd century BCE. Known for his treatise on Yoga, entitled "Patanjali Yoga Sutra", he was not only an authority on the Science of Yoga, but was also a scientist and a doctor whose clarity and wisdom was remarkable. Tradition says… Read more »


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Monday, November 10, 2014
Last One
Last one for tonight. Wow, I have gotten several cards done today. But it is time to quit. My internet is acting up again and I really need a new cutting blade. I have one coming in tomorrow. I hope it will be here when I get off work.
I wasn't going to do Craft Spot by Kimberly's Metal challenge, but my sister talked me into it. I have two metal snowmen left so I decided to use them on this easel card. The snowflake isn't cut as well as I would like it, so I am going to cut another one tomorrow with my new blade. I will change the picture tomorrow.
I am going to use this card in the following challenges:
Wednesday's Inspiration - Easel Card
Craft Spot - Metal
Paper Creators Crafts - Anything Goes
Scribble & Scraps - Anything Goes
Craty Calendar Challenges - Christmas
Jellyparik Friday - Christmas
Have a great night. See you tomorrow after work.
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This is lovely, Sarah! The snowflake is stunning.... a beautiful last cut with your blade! The scalloped border is so pretty and I love the metal snowman. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us at My Craft Spot!ReplyDelete
Hugs and blessings,
Beautiful card. Thanks for joining us at Wednesday's Creative Inspirations!!! I hope you get to join us again for our next challenge. Agnieszka DTReplyDelete
This is a lovely card! Thanks for joining us at Creative Inspirations this week! xxxReplyDelete
Love your beautiful bright blog. What a fab card, perfect for our festive challenge over at jellypark friends, thanks for linking up. Mel :o)ReplyDelete
Beautiful easel card! I love your cute little snowman! Thanks for joining the fun at My Craft Spot!ReplyDelete
A fabulous card and a gorgeous snowflake.ReplyDelete
Thank you for joining in with the Scribble & Scrap challenge and good luck x
This is a fabulous card, so lovely and bright.ReplyDelete
Thank you for joining us at Paper Creator for our Anything Goes Challenge.
This is a very bright and cheery Christmas card.ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining in our 'It's All About Christmas' challenge at Crafty Calendar Challenge and good luck.
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WebEngineView on Android : a day maybe ?
I'm working on a project using a Web interface. This project should be cross-platform. Currently, I use WebEngineView on Windows, Linux and Mac and I use WebView on Android.
Unfortunately, and unless I am mistaken, WebView in Android is very limited (does not save login / password, do not save the configuration, ...)
Do you think it will be possible one day perhaps, to have WebViewEngine on Android or not have these limitations with WebView?
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@CharlieG I would suggest you to post this question on Qt Interest Mailing list along with the problems you are facing. Maybe some Qt developer will come with a different perspective.


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The fabric is lovely and soft, Paisley Corduroy in Autumn Nest by Valori Wells (purchased from Whipstitch Fabrics). I just love it. I want to make a skirt or pants to match, but I think using the same fabric will just be too much. So I must find a nice solid that coordinates I think. Hmmmmm. Any suggestions?
It took me far too long to choose these wooden buttons! Do you guys agonize over buttons like I do?
This jacket was SO much easier to make than I thought it would be! Seriously, the instructions are so clear and the result so polished looking. I am dead chuffed! I just think it will look great on Delilah. I'll post pics of her wearing it when I can.


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I made this card as a 'thank you' to my lovely secretary, Emma, who has been a fantastic support for me, as well as being a valued friend. I have always known that I have been spoilt having her supporting me, and I expect that I will only really understand everything she did for me now that I can no longer expect to rely on her.
Card Recipe:
- Image - Milton from Wild Rose Studio
- Papers - First Edition paper pack
- Colouring - Promarkers, Copics
- Nesties - Labels 3, Go Kreate large scalloped circles (card base)
- 10mm & 15mm roses - Wild Orchid Crafts
- From my stash - Pearls, Glossy Accents
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Alright, I feel slightly guilty posting this given my highly convincing if not entirely sincere list of the top five reasons writers should stop reading...but...there's a Goodreads giveaway of advance copies of Afterparty! I'm excited, and so happy that Simon Pulse is doing this. And you should definitely get over there and sign up immediately, if only so you can win and go, "Meh, no wonder she's dispensing all this truly rank writing advice."
Do pop onto Goodreads, put Afterparty on your to-read list, and sign on for the giveaway!
Oh, right, here's the link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751652-afterparty
Also, international (as in non-U.S., she said U.S.-centrically) readers, apologies, this is a US only giveaway. I promise to do an international giveaway as soon as the book is out.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Goodreads Giveaway for Afterparty ARC's!!!
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- AnonymousAugust 2, 2013 at 5:58 PM
Entered to win! And you give good writing advice, silly girl!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm so glad that you entered! Good luck!Delete
And as for my g*o*o*d writing advice, heh heh heh... gotcha right where I want you. (You do know the part where I live to give out so much dreadful writing advice that I'm the only writer left standing, right?)
Congratulations, Ann! This is so exciting! = )ReplyDeleteReplies
I haven't actually seen the bound galley yet, so I'm kind of holding my breath until it gets here. The giveaway makes the notion that a real book is about to come out more concrete, and I admit to being very excited about it!Delete
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