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Bodhi Day? Schmodie Day!
One of American Hardcore author Steven Bush's favorite hardcore bands is Zero Defex from Akron, Ohio! Click on the sentence to go read him say it!
Also I now have a French author page. So go see that if you're French or Canadian or Ghanian or wherever else-ian where they speak French.
Also part two of my interview on Dr. Dick's Sex Advise is up. So you can go listen to that.
Yesterday I went to the John Lennon memorial in Central Park on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Lennon's death. I didn't shoot this video. But this is pretty much a visual account of what I experienced when I was there (you just don't get a sense of how frikkin' COLD it was):
I think I must have gotten there a few hours after whoever shot this video. But it was basically the same scene. And I stayed for just about as long as this video runs. I think I heard three or four songs. I couldn't see the musicians, just like whoever took this video couldn't. I think they were in the center of the circle somewhere. There was a trumpet player joining in by the time I got there. I don't know how anyone could play guitar in that cold. Then again, it was freezing cold on the roof of the Apple offices when The Beatles played their final concert (the one filmed for Let It Be).
When I posted some of this same stuff on Facebook, some people there marveled at the fact that I would post about John Lennon's death rather than about Bodhi Day, the supposed day of Buddha's enlightenment, which also is commemorated on December 8th.
But Bodhi Day never meant all that much to me. None of the teachers I sat with ever made a big deal out of it or held Rohatsu Sesshins, which is the common practice in a lot of Zen centers this time of year. Nishijima Roshi was always a bit of a curmudgeon about anything that seemed the least bit ceremonial or superstitious. I think the idea of doing a special sesshin on a day when Buddha probably didn't even actually get enlightened seemed pretty ridiculous to him.
I don't feel like it maters much. Sometimes you just pick an arbitrary time to do a thing, and doing a sesshin around December 8th is as good as any other day. So why not? I'm planning on attending a rohatsu sesshin this weekend here in New York.
But I do tend to agree with Nishijima's feelings about making certain days more "holy" than other ones. I mean, I love Christmas even though I'm not a Christian. But it's no more or less holy than any other day.
The idea of things like a Christmas ceasefire in a war always baffled me. I mean if you can have a ceasefire on December 25th, why not just stop firing at each other all together? Makes no sense to me.
I sit zazen every single day unless some really difficult circumstance prevents it. That's the most essential part of Buddhist practice. Saving all your zazen up for a sesshin in early December makes no more sense to me than calling a ceasefire on Christmas. It's sort of the same attitude, really. Of course it's a less violent expression of that attitude. But it's still pretty much coming from the same place.

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Sunday, June 26, 2011
hey kids it's grandpa carl again
1. I still love you all and as I promised in an earlier life, still intend to guest post when the fancy strikes me.
2. This is one of those times.
3. Also last week, when I sent rob a guest comic post. The one about kidneys.
4. Sometimes we used to talk about whether xkcd was copying other comics on the internet. Defenders of xkcd said, no, it's a coincidence, it's easy to make the same jokes and I am sure xkcd hasn't heard of this "penny arcades" or whatever the comic is you say he copied. And then I always used to say, "well, if it's just a coincidence, he sure is acting weird about it" with weird defined as "refusing to acknowledge it and shunning anyone who brings it up, instead of just explaining that it was a coincidence." There's certainly no way to prove that an author deliberately stole another person's joke, and it's hardly fair to assume foul play without evidence. So, what I did was set up a general procedure that I (in my unlimited wisdom) recommend to webcomic artists in this situation: If you publish a comic that is suspiciously like another person's comic, it's probably an innocent mistake. But if it's brought to your attention, acknowledge the similarities, link to the original if you want to be extra classy, and get it out of the way. Alas, xkcd has never once done this (if i am wrong on this let me know but I am pretty sure). It just makes me suspicious. If there's really nothing wrong going on, why not just do the online equivalent of laughing it off? Rather than the online equivalent of going to your room and locking the door?
The point I'm trying to make with all this is that the proper response, as odd and labor-intensive as it may seem, does happen fairly often, and it happened most recently at Amazing Super Powers, with the President Kid comic (check the post below the comic). As it happens, neither one of the comics are all that funny so I'm probably going to forget all about this soon. But while I remember: nice work, ASP. Nice work.
5. I read an article the other day about humor research, specifically if one gender is funnier than the other. It's an interesting subject, since men generally dominate the world of comedy, but people tend to be offended if you suggest that men are inherently funnier than women. I don't know what the right answer is (I can certainly imagine social factors that make it easier for a man to be funnier, which would mean that there isn't anything inherently different but there is still a difference). Anyway, it's an interesting topic and one that the study in this article makes no progress on because I think it used a terrible measure of humor.
The study had men and women write captions for New Yorker cartoons, and I guess the logic for this was that the New Yorker is a respected magazine, and every week it has a "write-a-caption-for-this-comic" competition, so let's use that. But that's a terrible measure of how funny someone is! Those cartoons are hard to write captions for! Why, most weeks (when I remember to read it) I don't even think the finalists they pick for the contest are all that funny. In each cartoon, the drawing is already there, so you're forced to work with what they have. And for a lot of drawings, there just won't be too many options! Anyway, I appreciate the fact that they are trying to measure humor quantitatively - something I have always thought was possible, and indeed, if you dig deeply enough, an idea this entire blog is premised on - but I don't think this is the best way. At the very least, give people tons and tons of cartoons (New Yorker and others) and let them see which ones they can come up with good captions for. After all, if your three cartoons are Guys in an Office, Guys Stuck on the Beach, and Guys At Nice Restaurant, you better hope you can come up with something that fits those, or else be deemed Less Funny in the eyes of these researchers.
The old Dysfunctional Family Circus was pretty funny, and that was based on writing new captions for Family Circus cartoons. But a lot of those were based on simplified drawings that could be somewhat ambigious; so you could have your captions cleverly come up with new descriptions of what was actually going on (as opposed to New Yorker cartoons, which are pretty much always just quotes from one person to the other). The point is, there are better ways to do this, but it's a good start.
6. Remind me to do this more often!
83 comments:
you can't fool us robReplyDelete
we know you've already consumed carl
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 11:34 PM
I stick around just for those times when Carl manages to get his head above water (or fat, or whatever)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 12:14 AM
How is webcomics.me going for you, Carl?ReplyDelete
- Pig at the Complaints desk in a New Yorker cartoonJune 27, 2011 at 12:27 AM
I wish I was taller.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 1:08 AM
Predictions for why 917 sucks:ReplyDelete
"Well _I've_ never heard of that guy, because I'm not XKCD's target audience, therefore Randall is just being obscure again, GOOMH-baiting the nerds and trying to make them feel important about themselves for knowing who that is. Or he has a crush on one more obscure scientist, I can't decide. Maybe both. Also, porn star daughter Megan nipples har har!"
@1:08: I see someone's feeling insecure about their choice in webcomicsReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 1:46 AM
Thanks Rob, keep it coming.ReplyDelete
- abdelmadjid sidiJune 27, 2011 at 2:25 AM
(1) I've heard of him;
(2) It's frankly insulting when some two-bit hack like Randall tries to put his words into the mouth of an excellent scientist/author to make his writing sound less lame than it is (see also: dozens of other xkcd strips, although recently the Marie Curie one was particularly grating);
(3) Randall is just being obscure again, GOOMH-baiting the nerds and trying to make them feel important about themselves for knowing who that is;
(4) If Randall has a crush on Hofstadter, it is only because he uses Wikipedia to "decide" who his crushes are. Even as a preteen I recall more sophisticated processes leading to my first crushes;
(5) I like Randall because he reminds me that any other creative[tm] man I meet, no matter how obnoxious, could always be even worse while thinking he is better.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 3:16 AM
@abdelmadjid, the smart and discerning people who read this blog don't dream about Megan's breast milk and having a porn star daughter, therefore we're better than Randall. You, sir, are neglecting to remind us of this superiority. Please correct that, or I demand my money back.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 3:56 AM
the joke was the acronym, which was sort of clever and I'll give the comic points for thatReplyDelete
Nothing else was particularly notable about it though; it was just as much of a nothing as the last ~200 xkcds have been.
I think he nailed it.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 6:43 AM
Acronym's cute, but I feel like that was the joke Randall wanted to tell and then had to pad it with some nerd-pandering.ReplyDelete
Also, does anyone else get disconcerted that when he "zooms" into panel 2, it seems that he didn't draw it larger he just expanded a regular image (or alternatively he drew it large with bigger pens and clunkier lines for no apparent reason)?
...Also, Carl, isn't this sort of post why you made webcomics.me? Your corporate empire, your choices, but I just -- I don't understand.
- Gary Glitter's first loveJune 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Meta? Existentialist Teen Amirite?ReplyDelete
"Acronym's cute, but I feel like that was the joke Randall wanted to tell and then had to pad it with some nerd-pandering."ReplyDelete
fuck you Raven that's pretty much what I was going to say
except I was going to use 'ppd' and/or 'the framing device sucks'
Anyway so yeah I dunno why this strip wasn't just the acronym, frankly. Randall doesn't have any qualms about doing a just-text comic. The framing device doesn't really add anything ('cept pandering).
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 9:47 AM
The entire six-word autobiography is actually a single acrostic. The acronym is only part of the author's cleverness.ReplyDelete
You lot are fecking dullards.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM
yes, jesus rollerblading christ, an acronym is when each letter becomes a word! here we have each word reverting to a letter, which is an acrostic.ReplyDelete
that pedantic motherfucker with his centrifugal forces and space-time analogy
the hipocrisy
it's just too much
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Dearest Anonymous @ 10:20 AMReplyDelete
You filthy bastard, it's hypercrisy!
Holy balls, Alt-F said something intelligible AND legitimate? I'm shocked. Nice catch with the "acrostic" bit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM
If what I might pixelate appears unintelligible you've only yourself to blame.ReplyDelete
My legitimacy is yet another matter.
My six-word autobiography:
Sex change.
Time machine.
Fuck self.
Gamer's six-word autobiography:
"Gamer regretted he never learned to count."
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM
ALTF, what do you think of Gamer's neckbeard?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 12:41 PM
According to the Urban Dictionary:ReplyDelete
2. (n) Derogatory term for slovenly nerdy people who have no sense of hygene or grooming. Often related to hobbies such as card gaming, video gaming, anime, et. al.
I like it!
He's no doubt quite filthy in bed. If one is not showered in crustations when one is getting the ride, what's the purpose?
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM
But not crustaceans - that's just creepy.ReplyDelete
- vladimr ilyich ulyanovJune 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM
I know at least one of you is watching the freak show on Channel 4 at the moment. Is that Gamer_2k4 with the neckbeard?ReplyDelete
Okay, people, seriously. My picture is RIGHT THERE. There is not a single place in the world where that is considered a neckbeard (as it fails the primary requirement of BEING ON MY NECK).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM
You're not filthy in bed then?
And who said anything about this world? The planetoid "Barbudos" in the Andromeda Galaxy would consider you hirsute enough.
You're not filthy in bed then?ReplyDelete
Not at the "crustacean" level, anyway.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM
No "crab-walking" then?
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 2:20 PM
I was watching Through the Wormhole just last night on the Science channel, and Hofstadter was on the particular episode I was watching.ReplyDelete
I get the feeling Randall was watching it, too.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Re: this Acrostic shit. No. Fuck that. Line ==\== word.ReplyDelete
Acrostics requires lines, in the
plural, ie: verses, ie: stixous which you [a]cro.
In his godawful prose there is
no more than line in the entire
goddamn 6-word autobiography, ie: one stixos.
There are,
however, 6 WORDS which
end up forming an ACRONYM if you take select letters (ie: the first of
each word). There is one line, so there is
no acro happening on this
goddamn stixos. In this whole
livid piece of shit comic there
is no acrostic except for the
shittacular last panel which declares that
Hofstadter is "WIN", but I doubt that is
likely intentional.
now that I've said, that please learn some English and/or
Greek, or else if you still don't
understand you can
attend rudimentary first
grade education where you are delightfully told by
educators that your name will
stand for something if you
only write it down the page and make cutesy
fucking adjectives besides each letter!
this is the internet -- Facts and Proof Checking are
labelled as just getting in the way of The Truth,
You know?
If that doesn't work for you, get a better monitor! (this is not directed towards Gamer).
@Ravenzomg i thought that post was by altf at first. I'm not sure whether to it's I or you who should feel bad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 3:01 PM
@said: I'm going to go ahead and call it parody.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 3:55 PM
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 4:07 PM
ravenzomg, for all the greek you just looked up on wikipedia, simple reformatting of the text in panel 2 would make in acrostic. however there is no way in hell to make it an acronym.ReplyDelete
also probably the inventors of acrostics would have considered you a jackass. ancient greeks insisted on separation into lines because in ancient greek there were NO SPACES between words. english has spaces, which are more than adequate to create the effect.
you're like those people demanding that cars have saddles and run on hay.
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 4:19 PM
I wish I had fantrolls :(ReplyDelete
I JUST HATE THOSE PETROLEUM-POWERED VEHICLES SO MUCHReplyDelete
I SAY I'M A WRITER AND THEREFOR YOU'RE ALL IDIOTS EVEN THOUGH I'M CLEARLY USING ANTIQUATED TERMINOLOGY AND INSISTING IT'S STILL RELEVANT.ReplyDelete
I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE INTERNET WORKS SO I ASSUME I'M ALWAYS RIGHT EVEN WHEN I KNOW I'M WRONG.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 4:39 PM
you are useless raventrolls, NONE of those were acrosticsReplyDelete
CATPCHA: cabal O SHIT
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 8:18 PM
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 9:34 PM
UM GUYS MY CAPSLOCK BUTTON IS STUCK AND I CAN'T SEEM TO GET IT UNSTUCK. THEREFORE I UNAVOIDABLY COME ACROSS AS BEING EVEN MORE TENSE AND IRRITABLE THAN USUAL.ReplyDelete
@4:07 words forming another wordy-sounding thing = acronym. ISMETA sounds wordy. See also TLA = Three Letter Acronym. You don't say "oh it's not a three letter acronym though because when i type out Three Letter Acronym i'm typing out the expansion of the acronym not the acronym itself thus it's an acrostic".ReplyDelete
If you alight from your aspie-based steam train of thought you'll see that (1) each word doesn't have your unique definition, non-overlapping with every other word; (2) English is not prescriptive anyway.
the sentence "english is not prescriptive anyway" has no meaningReplyDelete
@Rob I've put it past a panel of experts in Internet argument and they all say that it is syntactically and semantically correct. One member explicitly rejects use of the breathing comma and another took the opportunity to let out a bloody stream of invective about the quality of xkcdsucks reviews.ReplyDelete
but you are fatReplyDelete
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.ReplyDelete
A fat cow.
captcha: minest. The prize for winning this argument is so minest.
i'm actually an eldritch monstrosity, you racistReplyDelete
REBOOT PULLED A REDUX AND NO ONE EVEN CARES. MAYBE IF I POST THIS IN ALL-CAPS SOMEONE WILL.ReplyDelete
Nobody cares about those crappy spinoff sites. xkcdsux or bust!ReplyDelete
I mean, Ravenzomg just accused Randall of writing Hofstadter/Sagan slash-fics. Glass houses anyone?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 6:25 AM
@ Ravenzomd:ReplyDelete
I choose to enamour the English language as indelicately as is possible.
@ Said June 27 @ 2:47 PM:
You are a dullard.
I know it.
You know it.
And now we all know it.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 6:29 AM
Timofei, my lack of shame never let me own walls -- I am forced to live in a pile of shards and ash. THAT IS WHAT BEING IN THIS BLOG FEELS LIKE.ReplyDelete
also i totally still stand by my whole "it's an acronym, fuckers" argument, even though i haven't a clue if i'm right or not, but luckily i am not an english major which i am okay with. enjoy your degree which qualifies you to serve coffee, p3d4nt5. ...zing.
captcha: etchear. omigod srsly, how do i stop my ear from etching? scretching does nothing }=[
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 6:46 AM
"....i am not an english major which i am okay with. enjoy your degree which qualifies you to serve coffee, p3d4nt5. ...zing....."ReplyDelete
I do not understand how possessing a degree in English renders you qualified to serve coffee. That may very well be all you are able to do for gainful employment, but I can't see how it makes you 'qualified'.
It is an acronym within a single acrostic. Personally, I would have written it to encapsulate a double acrostic, but then that's just me.
"....I am forced to live in a pile of shards and ash...."
The Raven is related to the Phoenix though, Innit? I reckon your weekly ablution rituals must be exciting.
- far eastern immigrantJune 28, 2011 at 7:38 AM
ALTF: An English degree is sufficient to get you a job serving coffee, thus it qualifies you to serve coffee.ReplyDelete
Our language is fairly simple - if you would only work with it rather than fight everyone what speaks it better than you.
I watch Raven's ablution rituals over a hidden camera and I can confirm they are indeed pretty excitingReplyDelete
(this stuff writes itself)
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 7:55 AM
far eastern immigrant & ravenzomg = samefagReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM
@ far eastern immigrant:ReplyDelete
"...Our language is fairly simple...."
The way you might mangle it, I'm sure it is for you. There are 600,000 words in: the English language, you function with a working vocabulary of but 800 of them, no doubt.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM
@ Ann Apolis:ReplyDelete
Poor Ravenzomd lives amidst the aciculate shards of despair and the desolate ash of despondency without the comforting encouragement of walls. A 'hidden' camera is surely superfluous.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 8:47 AM
@Raven: Just because Randall gets all of his info from Wikipedia doesn't mean you can't go there. Check out the very first example.ReplyDelete
"ISMETA" is an acronym.
"I'm So Meta Even This Acronym" is an acrostic - a really shitty one, and proof that Randall doesn't read the Wikipedia articles that he should.
4:19 you have to get a name first.ReplyDelete
my fan troll is probably the best
- Your mother's poopJune 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM
@8:47: Citing Wikipedia is like writing something down on a scrap of paper then saying, "I'm right - it says so on this scrap of paper." If you don't want to be laughed at so loudly that your argument is drowned out, don't do it.ReplyDelete
@Anon 9:28ReplyDelete
Perhaps it's like that, if that same piece of paper was reviewed by hundreds (thousands?) of people who agreed it was correct and provided citations.
Yes, Wikipedia is free to edit by anyone, but that also makes it self-correcting. It means it's much more likely to be right than wrong.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Dearest El BarbudoReplyDelete
You forgot about the role apathy plays in Wikipedia.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Speaking of acrostics, here's the model for Randall's future tombstone, to be ordered by Megan.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM
@ Gamer:ReplyDelete
Oh joy, a neckbeard defending wikipedia senselessly. How original.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM
El Barbudo does nothing scentslessly.ReplyDelete
His phermones massage my olfactory process with original adroitness. And it is joyous.
- Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mostafavi Moosavi KhomeiniJune 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM
We get it, ALTF: you have a thing for stinky men.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM
So Wikipedia critics, what should one cite to be credible? The internet is full of cranks with webpages promoting inaccurate bullshit. Without a priori knowledge of the background and agenda of the author of a cited webpage, it's impossible to know whether the webpage is credible or not. At worst, Wikipedia has the same problems as the rest of the internet. If citing Wikipedia is verboten in your world, all of you citations better be coming from .gov sites or hard copy references published by academic presses.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 11:51 AM
All men stink.ReplyDelete
It's that especial stank I'm after.
@ Anonymous @ 11:44:
Yins is a cunt. No citation needed as this is a truth held by all to be self evident.
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Captcha: preten (hawt)
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 1:08 PM
Oh dear.ReplyDelete
My doppelganger again.
A cream of cunts requires a minimum of 65 by the way.
- Fatima Salma Bint Amir Ibn MakhzumJune 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM
@1144 Since when citations not from references published by academic presses became ok?ReplyDelete
The average web page is no more reliable than some guy down the pub blabbering on his favourite hobby horse. That you can type those thoughts on a keyboard and surround them with <html></html> says nothing whatever.
But people's increasing tendency to believe crap from strangers suggests that the world is getting stupider. So consider yourself trendy.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM
"....than some guy down the pub blabbering on...."ReplyDelete
Oh you're such a Brit!
The world is not getting more stupid. You and I are getting brighter!
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Since when citations not from references published by academic presses became OK?ReplyDelete
I don't think it's OK.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM
Ravenzomg ---> doesn't understand basic naming convention. Probably puts toast in a toaster, etcetera etcetera.ReplyDelete
Oh thank god that meme got dredged up, here I thought we would be forced to come up with original conversation instead of brainlessly spamming the "post comment" button.ReplyDelete
- That's what sheJune 28, 2011 at 2:55 PM
Since when "Oh thank god that meme got dredged up, here I thought we would be forced to come up with original conversation instead of brainlessly spamming the "post comment" button." suddenly became okay?ReplyDelete
I don't think it's okay.
Reboot does a Redux countdown: -20ReplyDelete
Better late than never.
- AnonymousJune 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM
Since when Reboot doing a Redux became OK?ReplyDelete
I don't think it's OK.
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 7:20 AM
I have a book that says the average internet page is at least slightly more reliable than some guy blabbering in the pub. Unfortunately, since this reference is a hard copy, I can't just provide you with a link so you can examine the reference yourself and draw your own conclusions about the quality of the study. You'll just have to take my word for it, but hey; at least I'm talking about a book and not one of those horribly unreliable web-pages.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 10:17 AM
A book? You mean some scraps of paper?ReplyDelete
The average Internet page IS some guy blabbering on a blog. But we're not blabbering about average, here.
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 12:22 PM
No, we're not talking about the average. The Wikipedia page on a particular subject is likely to be better (i.e. more informative, less biased, and with far more transparency) than the average page on that subject.ReplyDelete
Of course some Wikipedia articles are significantly worse than other pages on the same subject. As a literate citizen of the information age, your job is to evaluate EVERY source of information to determine whether or not it's good. For the most part, Wikipedia is pretty good. Knee-jerk Wikipedia bashing suggests the basher is functionally illiterate and has no idea how to evaluate quality of information.


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I love the way Democrats respond when they don't like something they see or hear by blaming Republicans for just about everything under the sun.
It was only the fiscally conservative members of the other party's spending and unfunded wars that piled on the last 32 years of debt.
All of our wars have either been funded by printing money, tax increases or borrowing, with resultant deficits and inflation.
I thought the Korean War began under Harry Truman and ended under Dwight Eisenhower.
Moreover, I must be under the false assumption that George W. Bush was responsible for Vietnam. Again, I must be mistaken that it was John Kennedy who was president when the Vietnam War began, which was then extended under Lyndon B. Johnson.
The cease-fire began under Richard Nixon.
During this period, it was Lyndon Johnson who moved all of the Social Security excess (trust fund) over to the U.S. Treasury to pay for the Vietnam War and his War on Poverty.
This is partly why Social Security now is in trouble.
Next we have President Barack Obama increasing our footprint in Afghanistan with continuing drone strikes and enhanced interrogation by way of continued operation of Guantanamo.
Facts are something Democrats have difficulty understanding.
Those who don't already have one should obtain a copy of my full-page letter printed in the Butler Eagle on Oct. 7 and begin to comprehend what party is responsible for the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street, leading to the loss of millions of jobs, a devastated economy, and loss of income desperately needed to fund government entitlements. Also, people should obtain the DVD "The Warning."
The progressive sides of both political parties lack both statesman-like qualities and the accounting expertise to run America.
People should do themselves a favor and Google "Government funding programs." By doing that, they just might begin to understand what "squander" and "waste" look like in the real world.
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Marbled Muffins made with homemade strawberry jelly are our family favorite. The muffin batter is mildly sweet with a touch of acidity from the strawberry jelly. I used strawberry extract and lemon zest in the batter and repeated both flavors in the jelly.
The muffins have a subtle elegance that makes a perfect treat for tea parties or for children's birthdays or play dates. I've made them for both, and they're always a hit. The design is my own attempt at modern art; I put a dollop of the jelly on top of the batter and then use a toothpick to draw in random designs. It's not Jackson Pollock, but hey, I'm sure it tastes better than his paintings!
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Summer style is not just for the cottage. I've been receiving lots of messages lately asking how to bring the easy and carefree look of summer homes to the city. When I was asked to host Summer Home on HGTV, I wondered if it would be a problem that I'm a city girl. My designs, however, were described to me as having a cottage vibe. I never really thought of my style as being summery or countrified, though I do recall my brother telling someone "Sam loves beat-up old country stuff from the garbage." OK, I do love a curbside find, but I always refurbish what I bring home. I have to admit though, looking around my living room now, if there were a tongueand-groove backdrop (whitewashed of course), all my furniture would work.
Similarly, when I look at the above photo from a young family's summer home that we decorated on the show, I can imagine the entire space transplanted into an urban condo. The floors would probably be dark hardwood or concrete and the walls would be painted drywall, but everything else could stay the same.
Summer style has a fresh, airy feeling and it's relaxed. In the country, we don't care if everything isn't perfect. When it comes to pulling together the perfect imperfect room, there are definitely conventions that can help you bring summer style to your city or country home.
In every space I work on, I like to use old furniture, especially when it has sentimental value. The mid-century modern chairs were part of the family's original cottage decor. There was concerns the clean lines of the chairs didn't feel like they belonged in the country. But country furniture doesn't have to look like granny's old wicker rocker. All the mid-mod chairs needed was fresh leafy green upholstery.
Modern works in the woods (and in your city home if you're trying to make it look like the woods) but precious and delicate furnishings don't. Bigbox store furniture can take a beating and looks super when paired with a few custom pieces. Steer clear of anything that's disposable or that you plan on having for just a couple years. I've had my Ikea Stockholm sofa for five years and it's still going strong. The sofa, island and floor lamp (in the photo) are from Ikea, but the space doesn't feel like a showroom because of the mix of custom pieces such as the ikat upholstered ottoman, and the wool rug. We customized the white, store-bought drapes with bands of green fabric on the bottom. Any time you put your own spin on mass-market purchases, you elevate their look.
Another way to bring a summer breeze into your urban abode is with a palette taken from the great outdoors. Our space is a mix of lakeside blues, sunshiney yellows, leafy greens and plenty of white. A white backdrop will always make a country or city home feel summery and fresh. In my early magazine days, I learned that white space on a page allows a photo to breathe; white walls do the same thing for furniture, fabrics and art. A fail-proof shade of white you ask? Sarah Richardson's Cotton (SR15) for Para Paints is the perfect white - it's not stark nor overly yellow. We also painted the ceiling in Sarah's Robin's Egg (SR17). Using pale blue on a ceiling is like painting a sky above your living room.
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Missionaries have been serving in Chile since 1897, which means when Chuck and Betty Ostlie arrived in 1980, the gospel message had been shared there for more than 80 years.
Nonetheless, there was still work to be done....
By the time Chuck and Betty Ostlie began their missionary work in the South American nation of Chile, efforts had been going on for some time.
In fact, missionaries have been serving in Chile since 1897, which means when the Ostlies arrived in 1980, the gospel message had been shared there for more than 80 years.
Nonetheless, there was still work to be done, which is why the family was called to the mission field.
The Ostlies were in the area recently to talk about their work as missionaries as part of the Redwood and Echo Alliance churches missions conference.
According to Chuck Ostlie, God called the couple out of their lives in southwest Minnesota to the mission field.
Chuck is an NDSU graduate with a degree in agronomy, and prior to 1980 he was working as a county agent for the U of M Extension program in an office in Clarkfield.
Having come to faith through the Navigators, Ostlie got involved with his church and through the Christian and Missionary Alliance began to feel God was calling him to ministry.
Ostlie, who was now married, went back to college where he was schooled in the finer points of missionary work, but until that time had no idea where they would serve.
"We were totally open to where God would send us," Ostlie said, adding at first he thought they might go to Africa.
What they determined was the climate of Chile better suited their health, and so they went off to language school in Costa Rica and ultimately arrived in Chile.
For the next three decades, the Ostlies took on various roles working in bigger cities as well as rural areas to share the gospel.
They did it through tent meetings, church planting and most recently through a program known as Marriage Encounter. The Marriage Encounter program all-owed for a chance to work with couples outside of the church setting, and through that program they were able to reach many couples, especially of the professional class.
Much of the work in a country like Chile is focused on the poorer people, said Ostlie, but, he added, the more affluent need to hear the message as well and through a program to help enhance and restore marriages they were able to do that.
The Ostlies helped to establish three separate congregations in Chile, and they were in the country when the Alliance Church celebrated its 100th year of missionary work in the South American country. The nation even commemorated the centennial with a stamp.
The Ostlies are officially retired form mission work as of the end of 2012, and according to Chuck, the work in Chile is also coming to an end. The national church in Chile has been deemed self-sufficient, as it not only can sustain itself through training up new leaders but it is now officially sending out its own missionaries to other parts of the world.
Chuck said he is not sure what God has in mind for him moving forward, but added he is open to serve wherever God would best use him.
The Ostlies are currently residing in Fargo, N.D. and are out on the circuit sharing their stories with people including those at the local Alliance churches.
Ostlie said he was privileged to have serve with such a wonderful group of people, and even though their work in Chile is done he has no intention sitting in a rocking chair for the rest of his life. After all, there is still lots of work to do.


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If you want to have a somewhat coherent Instagram experience on Windows Phone the app to get has been Instance. It was one of the first apps (and most polished) that allowed users to upload pictures to the social network. However, we're getting reports that the app isn't working.
Instance was notable because it didn't require a server in the middle to upload to Instagram. How did it do that? By using Instagram's very own API. That approach offered a better experience for Instagram users on Windows Phone, but now seems to be causing some issues. A change on their part in regards to their API could be causing trouble for Instance users. That seems to be the case.
Try launching Instance right and it will give you a wrong username/password error. We're getting the same error on both our paid and free versions of the app. We've reached out to the developer, Daniel Gary, to see if he has anything to add to the current situation. He let us know Instagram did change something and he's currently investigating it. We'll let you know of when a potential fix is coming.
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I've been following what's going on in Japan very closely. So far the most reliable source of info seems to be the BBC. This report puts a lot of what we're hearing about the radiation levels in perspective.
I also check NHK's English language service at least once a day. NHK is Japan's national broadcasting service, similar to the BBC or CBC. So you can depend on the government playing some role in controlling what they say. But my take on things is that the Japanese government is pretty pissed off at TEPCO. So while I take everything NHK says with a grain of iodized salt, I think they're fairly reliable, all things considered.
I am not watching channels like FOX News at all. I haven't been following any big American news services. Those guys always seem more interested in increasing their ad revenues than in actually reporting. The few times I've checked any of their reports, they're so full of high priced special effects and graphics that I can't place any value on the reports themselves.
As for the so-called "alternative news sources" many of those seem just as over-the-top and biased as the commercial news sources, and possibly even hungrier for attention. Plus their own information sources are usually extremely dubious.
The BBC report above says that the psychological effects of the radiation scare are far more significant than the actual radiation, which is still negligible unless you're very close to the damaged reactors. The scares about radiation are actually hampering efforts to help those who have really been affected by the tsunami and the earthquake. Relief teams from foreign countries are staying away from Japan out of misguided fears over radiation, which is a damned shame. Almost criminally so, if you ask me.
This is all very personal to me. Some of my closest friends live in Miyagi Prefecture where the devastation was the worst, and in Tokyo, where a lot of people seem to be going quietly insane. People who were less than two miles away from the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unaffected by radiation. In fact many people who were in those cities when the blasts happened showed no effects of radiation. And the levels at Fukushima are far lower than those, even in the worst case scenarios.
Now I hear people in California are stocking up on iodine tablets. This is simply insane. Unless, of course, they're worried about their state's own nuclear reactors and how earthquake prone California is. But I really don't think that's the case. It's just pure misguided panic.
Look. I am as anti-nuke as anyone could be. I was in a band that did a song called Drop The A-Bomb On Me twenty-mumble years ago. I think nuclear power is dangerous and it's a big mistake to depend on it. I hope the recent events in Japan add some fuel to the anti-nuclear power movement.
But I am also not worried that Tokyo is going to become a radioactive wasteland because of something 128 miles away. I'm more concerned for my ex-wife's family freezing up north without heating oil and angry that rescue teams from America are refusing to come help because their organizers fear they might get sued or some such nonsense.
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Europe Bans Airport X-Ray Scanners that U.S. Still Uses
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Europe Bans Airport X-Ray Scanners that U.S. Still Uses
Time Magazine, November 17, 2011
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The European Commission adopted new rules Nov. 14 regarding X-ray, or backscatter, body scanners at all airports in Europe. A press release ordered members of the European Union to remove X-ray scanners from its airports to avoid risking "citizens' health and safety." The news [brings] into question the continued use of the very same X-ray scanners in U.S. airports. While the Transportation Security Administration also employs millimeter-wave scanners in U.S. airports, X-ray scanners are the ones that have received more criticism from public-safety advocates. While ... the amount of radiation exposure from X-ray machines is very low, several studies have shown that a small number of cancer cases could result from scanning millions of passengers every year. Some critics of the scanners say that any small amount of cancer is too much to tolerate. Although the TSA doesn't show signs of budging on the use of X-ray scanners, Europe will instead use machines that rely on radio frequency waves, which have not been linked to cancer.
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In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
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Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
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[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the official story of 9/11 are nowhere more clearly shown than in this important story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers, and these four are all later listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more on this, click here. For an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up, click here. For other revealing news articles on 9/11, click here.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Corruption Game' Speech is Now the Most Viewed Twitter Video of Any Politician
2019-02-12, Newsweek
A viral video of New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using a "Corruption Game" to highlight the need for campaign finance reform during a House Oversight Committee hearing last Wednesday has become the most viewed video of any politician in Twitter history. In her "corruption game," Ocasio-Cortez launched into a "lightning round" of questions for a panel of ethics experts in a bid to demonstrate just how easy it is for corrupt lawmakers - and even, hypothetically, the president of the U.S. - to avoid accountability under current government ethics laws. The 29-year-old lawmaker was able to highlight how a political "bad guy" would be able to enrich themselves and advance their interests "even if that means putting [their] interests ahead of the American people." Her examples ranged from taking "special interest dark money" from corporate PACs to fund a campaign to using hush money payments to make potential scandals disappear and writing laws that benefit donors and then buying stocks in their companies for personal financial gain. "So," Ocasio-Cortez said, in summary: "We have a system that is fundamentally broken. We have these influences existing in this body, which means that these influences are here, in this committee, shaping the questions that are being asked of you all right now. Would you say that that's correct?" "Yes," one expert, Walter Michael Shaub Jr. ... who previously served as the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, responded.
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Purdue Pharma sought secret plan to become 'end-to-end pain provider,' lawsuit alleges
2019-01-31, CNN News
Pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma LP secretly pursued a plan, dubbed "Project Tango," to become "an end-to-end pain provider" by selling both opioids and drugs to treat opioid addiction, all while owners on the board - members of one of America's richest families - reaped more than $4 billion in opioid profits, according to a lawsuit newly unredacted. The suit says the company and its owners, the Sackler family ... engaged in a decade of deception to push their pharmaceuticals, namely the painkiller OxyContin, on doctors and patients, publicly denying what internal documents show they privately knew to be true: that the highly addictive drugs were resulting in overdoses and deaths. Purdue examined selling overdose antidotes, including Narcan, as "complementary" products to the same doctors to whom it sold its opioids, the lawsuit claims, and although the company maintained a ledger of doctors it suspected of inappropriate opioid prescriptions and other forms of abuse, dubbed "Region Zero," it continued to collect revenue from those doctors. The Sacklers paid themselves more than $4 billion in opioid profits between April 2008 and 2018. In 2017, there were 47,600 opioid-linked drug fatalities in the United States. The unredacted complaint also says consulting firm McKinsey & Co. played a crucial role in advising the company on how to push its product on doctors and boost its profits.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders will ask why a once-free drug now costs $375,000
2019-02-04, CNBC/Reuters
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders plans to send a letter to Catalyst Pharmaceuticals on Monday asking it to justify its decision to charge $375,000 annually for a medication that for years has been available to patients for free. The drug, Firdapse, is used to treat Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), a rare neuromuscular disorder. The disorder affects about one in 100,000 people in the United States. The government is intensifying its scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry and rising prescription drug prices. Both the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, controlled by Republicans, have begun holding hearings this year on the rising costs of medicines. In the letter dated Feb. 4, Sanders asked Catalyst to lay out the financial and non-financial factors that led the company to set the list price at $375,000, and say how many patients would suffer or die as a result of the price and how much it was paying to purchase or produce the drug. For years, patients have been able to get Firdapse for free ... through a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program called "compassionate use." The program allows patients with rare diseases and conditions access to experimental drugs outside of a clinical trial when there is no viable alternative. Florida-based Catalyst received FDA approval of Firdapse in November, along with exclusive rights to market the medication for several years. In December, Catalyst announced it would price Firdapse at $375,000 a year.
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Mitt Romney�s campaign is stepping up its effort to make the candidate more appealing to the average voter, saying it will release a new television ad next week in which Mr. Romney seamlessly dispatches chess grandmasters, puzzles over unsolved physics problems, and translates passages of Homer�s �Odyssey� - all while performing mundane chores such as quieting a stranger�s baby, shopping at a supermarket, and repairing an espresso maker at a coffee shop.
The 60-second ad - titled �An Extraordinary Man of the People� - is Mr. Romney�s most aggressive effort to date to reassure voters that he cares about the poor and middle class even if they can�t begin to imagine what it is like to be him.
�The goal is to connect with voters who are anxious about the state of the economy and are looking for someone just like them only much better,� said Kevin Madden, a senior campaign adviser.
The ad will feature Jonathan Goldsmith, of �Most Interesting Man In the World� fame, speaking directly to the camera and describing Mr. Romney as �even more interesting than Dos Equis.�
�I don�t always vote, my friend, but when I do, I vote for Mitt Romney,� Mr. Goldsmith concludes.
The spot, which includes a sometimes rambling voiceover from actor Clint Eastwood, shows Mr. Romney casually playing three chess matches simultaneously while racing through a New York Times crossword puzzle. And at another juncture, the camera zooms in on the candidate as he pores over math equations having to do with a controlled fusion project while adroitly maneuvering his right thumb and forefinger to fix a youngster�s broken cellphone.
�What we need is for voters to see Mitt in a relaxed environment � at least a relaxed environment for him � just being his extraordinary self,� said Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mr. Romney. �They�ll see he is one of them except that he is far superior.�
Aides to Mr. Romney admit they are taking a risk, politically, by portraying the candidate in such grand terms, but the bigger danger, they say, is trying to play down the presidential hopeful into something he isn�t.
�Do you think the ordinary voter cares that Superman is faster than a speeding bullet and they aren�t? Neither do we and neither should Mitt,� said Mr. Fehrnstrom.
�The aim isn�t to connect with average voters but with their fear of how far up $%^ creek this country would be if they were in charge,� said one adviser to the campaign. �When they realize that, they�ll see that Mitt Romney is a much better choice than they will ever be.�
The new ad comes on the heels of a concerted effort by the Romney campaign to offer more of Mr. Romney�s personal story, after Republican complaints that he has not done enough to sell or humanize himself to voters.
�Governor Romney and I both care about colonizing the moon,� Newt Gingrich, who challenged Mr. Romney in the Republican primary, says in the ad. �The difference is that under his policies, poor and middle-class families will probably be sent there first.�
Mr. Gingrich isn�t the only presidential foe who appears in the new spot. Herman Cain is also in it, claiming that Mr. Romney �taught me everything I know about flat taxes and 9-9-9,� and Texas Governor Rick Perry comes on camera to credit Mr. Romney for teaching him the value of a $10,000 bet.
President Obama�s campaign, meanwhile, continued to demand specifics from Mr. Romney on a variety of topics.
In a new ad of their own, designed as a response to Mr. Romney�s forthcoming spot, the president, alone on a basketball court, can be seen smoothly sinking three-point shots and effortlessly executing two-handed dunks while a voice over wonders why Mr. Romney is being so secretive about his thoughts on the Evans Gambit, or the fusing of hydrogen into helium, or Dos Equis beer.
�Mitt Romney�s new ad is just more of the evasiveness that his campaign has become known for,� said Lis Smith, an Obama campaign spokeswoman. �As we are fond of reciting here, from Homer, �Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns; driven time and again off course. ��
Aides to Mr. Romney acknowledge their candidate, who has been busy prepping for his debates with the president and working on his three-point shot, has been slow to show voters his extraordinary side.
�We may not have given ourselves enough time before Nov. 6 to do this right. But that may not matter,� said Mr. Fehrnstrom. �That�s part of what makes our campaign so extraordinary.�
Philip Maddocks writes political satire and humor for GateHouse Media and can be reached at email@example.com.
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The world news recently, and finally, did a report on the backlog of veterans disability claims.
There are 900,000 claims waiting to be settled; some have been waiting for two years.
I have had a claim in the works for 12 years.
My claim has been bounced from one agency to the other — from the regional office to the Bureau of Veterans Affairs to the Appeals Management Center and back to the regional office. It's a nightmare, and there's no help to be had anywhere.
My American Legion representative just says "wait and see." Congressman Mike Kelly's office was powerless; I gave up on it completely.
Trying to call different government agencies is a complete waste of time. You spend all your time lost in their "telephone trees," going from one option to the other, never getting to talk to anyone directly.
Our local county veterans representative has no interest in helping me.
Now, it's reportedly been decided that any new veterans claims that involve possible suicide or injury to another person will go to the head of the line, putting cases like mine back even further.
I served my time. I was discharged honorably. I was promised support. My disabilities are real, and also debilitating.
Sometimes I think veterans officials just bump cases around, hoping us vets will die of old age. That would be the cheap and easy way out.
I think it's an insult to all of us vets that we are honored two days out of each year, and treated like nobodys the other 363 days.


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basically it sounds like the cardinals don't want to offer Mathieu any gauranteed money in his contract. His agent says that is ridiculous.
I think it's an idiot move as well. If you didn't feel like he was worth compensating as a third round pick, don't pick him. If you have that little faith in him, don't pick him. If you feel like you need to "punish" him for the past right out of the gate, let someone else pick him.
To me it's a low-class move.