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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Toys on Thursday
Another OSJL mouse! (If you can figure out what OSJL stands for, I'll give you a big cyber hug--which I don't do that often, since I'm too busy sleeping.)
26 comments:
- Unknown said...
What a cutie! Also like the name of the blog. :-)
- February 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Admiral Hestorb said...
I ignore most of my new toys that mom buys me. I appreciate the thought but not the gift. maybe in a year or so.
- February 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM
- Kea said...
We'll never guess what OSJL stands for...We'd have hoped there would be an "N" in there for NIP! :-D
- February 3, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- Snowbrush said...
In December, my wife and I got our first cat since 1971 (we're more dog people), and are very much enjoying him (I blog about him from time to time if you're interested). One problem we have though is that he will only play with mice that have real fur, but we feel badly buying them. I guess we'll knuckle under though for our little Brewsky.
- February 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- Luscious Lucy said...
We saw your mom, Margaret today, did she tell you? She came by to visit us and we thought that was just the sweetest thing ever! Then we wanted to make sure and thank her again and we found YOU, CatMandu -- wow, what luck! We think you are just beautiful and we really love that sailboat you have! We've decided to follow you to see what voyage you take :D
- February 3, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- =^..^= said...
OSJL mouse? Mmm... wud it stand for Old Silly Juicy Licky mouse??? Do we get our hug now???
~Slash & Bronzy
- February 3, 2011 at 3:16 PM
- Remington said...
Fake mice can't be fun....they just sit there!
- February 3, 2011 at 3:18 PM
Cats and kids. Give them a cardboard box and they can stay entertained for hours. And it's cheap too! :-)
Take care and have a great weekend :-)
- February 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- Dexter said...
MMMmmmmm......OSJL.....One Sucky Jangly Lemming?? (sorry, that was really hard!)
I like your box though!
From a cute kitten x
- February 3, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- jim said...
Ocean State Job Lot They have nice mice.
- February 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Cat Mandu said...
Oh, No!! The Bulldog guessed it. I told Mom not to do this. Didn't she know that all a person has to do is tell Google to "OSJL" and they will know!?!?! (It's a place where she picks up cheap mice.) Don't get me wrong. I do not like to eat real mice. I just play with them. No mice were ever hurt by me in the making of this mouse post.
Fuzzy hugs to the Bulldog!! There. That's it for hugs for today!
- February 3, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- Trixie, Lily, and Sammy-Joe said...
We guessed maybe the OS stands for Only Stuffed, but we can't figure out the rest!
- February 3, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Marco said...
OSJL----Is Ocean State Job Lot
Mandu I know that you are a guy but this weather has gotten me down and I could use a hug
Your friend, Marco
- February 3, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Cat Mandu said...
OK, Marco. A great big fuzzy hug for you--but only if you come over and build a nice Iceman for me to see from my window.
(To those of you visiting from warm climates--all of our deep snow has turned to shiny ice, so we can't make snowmen any more!)
- February 3, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- Nadbugs said...
Guys -- this is Bugs here, by the way -- tell your humans to quit it with the toys already. Things have got so bad at my house, my human is having a yard sale. When -- if -- it ever gets warmer. I keep trying to explain that OSJL or no OSJL, she is just going to have to do better with the toys. Check this out:
Going back to sleep now. Mandu, over n out.
- February 3, 2011 at 9:26 PM
- dArtagnan Rumblepurr/Diego Hamlet Moonfur said...
You're looking so regal my friend!
- February 3, 2011 at 9:41 PM
- The Island Cats said...
Fake mousies are only fun for awhile...you gotta have the real thing!! (Like we would know...we've never seen a live mousie!!)
- February 3, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- Gattina said...
Carton boxes are the best houses for cats and fake mousies are not that bad. At least Rosie loves them and still puts them in her water bowl.
- February 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM
- "The Boys" and Karen said...
Now that's what we call a box!
And Jonny would really like that mousie...well, for a while anyway.
- February 5, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- Oskar said...
You do look comfy in your box. We have no idea what the initials stand for!
Nubbin wiggles,
- February 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- caspersmom said...
That box beats all the toy mousies ever. Oh yes, I really dig your pirated ship. That beats toy mousies too.
- February 8, 2011 at 12:14 AM
- Jo said...
Hi Mandu, your yoomen came by and visited my yoomen's blog, Thanks to her. My yoomen had a cat called Katmandu, Mandu for short. He came from West Africa (I come from North Africa, live in South Africa for now and will move to East Africa in a few months - how's that for a well-travelled cat?) Poor Mandu died long before I came onto the scene. Please ask your yoomen to take you back to my yoomens blog and check under the labels: Animal Tails for more on Mandu. I love fake mice. No real mice in our SA house. We are six cats here so no self-respecting mouse would visit here. Have a purring good day in that lovely box of yours. Shadow Hedges (Previously Sudan, North Africa, presently Bloemfontein, South Africa and soon Kenya, East Africa!) Sorry to repeat it but I cannot wait to join my yoomens in East Africa! *Purrr.*
- February 8, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- michico*Adan*Lego-小芥*阿丹*樂高 said...
You are really adorable~!
- February 10, 2011 at 1:22 AM
- Celia said...
OMG< this kitty looks like a long-haired version of my Gabe! You can see his pic here on my blog enjoying his new Crater Dot:
- February 10, 2011 at 2:37 PM
- biebkriebels said...
Your cat Mandu is a beauty, has the same colour as Pim. Is it a Persian cat? Pim is a British Shorthair. I like your other blogs too, you travel and are creative. Interesting.
- February 10, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- amanda said...
Hello Mandu! hope you have a lovely Sunday! I love boxes and bags too! Rio
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Oysters in Seattle Linked to Spike in Vibriosis Cases
Dozens of reports of the unpleasant illness have been recorded since June.
If you're headed to Seattle, you've likely got two things on your must-try list: coffee and oysters. (Starbucks is headquartered there, after all, and the city's location near Samish Bay and Mid Hood Canal make it a mecca for fresh oyster lovers.) But while you can safely sip on coffee across Seattle, you will want to be more cautious before you slurp down oysters at any ol' location. Reports show 25 people who have eaten raw oysters in the Seattle-King County area since June have contracted vibriosis, a bacterial infection that comes with some pretty unpleasant stomach symptoms.
According to the Public Health department of Seattle-King County, 25 people have abdominal cramping, vomiting and watery, uh, movements—common symptoms of vibriosis—since June, a huge spike in the number of vibriosis cases the area might experience in a similar time period. In fact, the department says Seattle-King County has a five-year average of just 30 cases a year; in 2015, for example, there were only 32 laboratory-confirmed cases of vibriosis in the state. And the increase has officials warning consumers about the risks of consuming raw oysters from area eateries.
If you've eaten raw oysters in the Seattle area in recent weeks and have felt sick, you should report the illness to your doctor. And if you plan to eat oysters in the coming weeks in the Seattle area, take note of these tips from the public health department.
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- Wash your hands after eating raw oysters and other raw shellfish. (This is a good rule to follow any time you eat, too.)
- If you've got cuts, scrapes, or other open wounds on your hands, take extra care to wash those areas after handling raw oysters or seafood juices to prevent infection.
As a reminder, vibriosis symptoms are no fun. In addition to making your stomach very sick, you could also experience headaches and fever, and symptoms can last for up to seven days. So when it comes to eating oysters in the Seattle area right now, it's better to be safe than sorry.


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Prison Program Connects Convicts With Nature, Biology, Beekeeping (Video)
You've got to check this out. I'll let the video do most of the talking, but here's the brief background: The Sustainable Prisons Project, a collaboration between The Evergreen State College and the Washington State Department of Corrections, brings biology, beekeeping, agriculture, and connecting with nature to prisoners. Really, really cool.Now connect that with other prison projects that attempt to do more than lock 'em up and throw away the key, such as The Prison Yoga Project and teaching meditation to inmates in LA County Men's Central jail. Then make the leap to studies showing how spending time among growing things can boost self-esteem, improve mental health, and make you feel more alive. Surely something, anything, that attempts to rehumanize, re-naturize those members of our society who haven't made positive choices is worth paying attention to.
As the video points out we've got 2.3 million people in prison in the United States. That's the greatest percentage of people in jail of any nation (23.4% of the entire number of people incarcerated in the world, with only 5% of the world's population). Just under 40% of those people are listed as non-Hispanic blacks, while this demographic category is just 12.6% of the US population.h/t YES! Magazine
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As hurricane Irene begins its trek through the Bahamas on its way to the US East Coast, officials are cautioning coastal residents – particularly in North Carolina – to be prepared to evacuate when local officials put out the call.
The reason: storm surge, one of the most potentially destructive features associated with tropical cyclones.
In preparing for Irene's arrival, "the most important thing we need to remind people is that the principal threat that evacuations are ordered for is storm surge," says Craig Fugate, who heads the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Indeed, evacuations already have begun in sections of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a popular summertime vacation area with limited routes to and from the Banks' barrier islands.
As of 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said they expected tropical-storm-force winds from Irene's expansive mass of clouds to reach the Outer Banks Saturday morning.
"Often, evacuation orders are given when the skies are blue and the weather's fair," Mr. Fugate says. But he cautions people not to use good weather at the moment as a reason to wait until the next forecast cycle to make their move.
The time between the first evacuation orders and a storm's arrival can range from several hours to 24 hours or more in advance, depending on the storm's size, speed, the number of people who need to be moved, and the capacity of evacuation routes to handle heavy traffic.
Tropical cyclones generate surges by pushing a bulge of wind-driven water ahead of them as they move along.
Perhaps 5 percent of a surge's height can be traced to an extra bulge at the sea surface, imparted by very low atmospheric pressures inside a hurricane's eye. But the vast majority of water bulldozed by a storm results from the counterclockwise circulation of winds dragging surface water along with them, explains Jamie Rhome, who leads the storm-surge unit at the National Hurricane Center.
That circulation tends to put the highest part of the surge in the upper-right-hand quadrant of a storm as its track is viewed from above.
Yet a temporary rise in sea level that a surge brings represents only part of the surge-hazard story. A hurricane's winds whip up enormous waves that ride atop the surge. Without those waves, storm surges would behave more like a steadily cresting and receding river flood. But the waves act as relentlessly pounding aquatic sledgehammers.
This repetitive assault by tons of water for hours on end collapses the stilt-perched beach homes and other structures that otherwise might have remained intact had they been built on a river flood plain, with just a high flood crest to endure.
Barrier islands and coastal wetlands can blunt the impact of surges and their waves. But heavy coastal development along the country's Gulf and East Coasts have often compromised those natural barriers. Louisiana's sinking delta and the loss of its wetlands are perhaps the most striking example, many coastal-restoration specialists say.
As a tropical cyclone approaches landfall, the final height of the surge is determined by the storm's speed, strength, the depth and extent of the continental shelf that the storm passes over, as well as local features – bays, estuaries, coastal marshes – that the surge encounters.
One extreme example came in September 1938, when a storm variously called the Great New England Hurricane or the Long Island Express drove north into central New England. Scientists have determined that the storm qualified as a Category 3 by today's rating system – a major hurricane.
Rhode Island's narrow, north-south-running Narragansett Bay, with the capital Providence at the northern end, sat in the path of the storm's upper-right quadrant. Tides, already high because of a full moon, surged to 16 feet above normal and swept up the bay, submerging parts of Providence under 13 feet of water.
In the early 1960s, Providence built a surge barrier across the mouth of the Providence River to protect the city center from future storm surges.
Trying to combine all the interactions between storm, ocean, and coastline make storm-surge projections a difficult challenge, Mr. Rhome says. They can combine in ways that can produce some "counterintuitive flooding."
Hurricane Irene, for instance, is projected to pass over or just east of Cape Hatteras. But some of the worst surging is projected for the cape's Pamlico Sound, which is projected to be the left side of the track, far from the quadrant most often associated with the worst storm-surge damage.
The cape juts like a broad arrowhead into the Atlantic. As Irene passes the cape, the storm will have some open water to its west, instead of land. As the storm's broad, counterclockwise circulation swings out of the north along that west side, the circulation is projected to drive seawater over a relatively shallow seafloor and back into Pamlico Sound.
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Dear Dave,
I have read your blog daily for over a year now and have not left a comment, I believe this is called lurking. Several times I lectured myself to simply stop reading you because your views often upset me. You seem to have this idealized view of a disability community. I do not, or rather did not, believe such a community existed. I believed that a community of the disenfranchized was a laughable concept.
To answer the question forming in your head, no I do not have a disability, however my son does. When he was born with Down Syndrome, a fact I knew before his birth, I was determined to parent the strongest most powerful kid possible. I wanted him to have the self esteem he would need to live a fully integrated and fully assimilated life. Many years ago I had worked as an instructor in a sheltered industry and I came to believe that any system or structure that segregated or congregated those with disabilities was perpetuating the myth that disability was reason enough to separate someone from the pack.
I determined that this would not happen to my boy. I joined no support groups, recieved no special services, we went our way as a family. We fought the school for full integration and demanded that he be socialized with his peers. At first we met with brilliant success. He made friends at school and for the most part other parents were quite supportive. I held my breath each year as he advanced through the school system. I hoped and prayed that the friendships he had would last. They did not. By the time he was 16 he was completely out of the social mainstream. He never recieved invitations to parties, he never got calls from friends on the weekend. My heart raged at the injustice.
My parents, my father in particular, kept insisting that I involve my son in something like the Special Olympics so that he would have a social outlet. We had huge battles over this, I told him that organizations like the Special Olympics were outdated, they operated on the premise that people with disabilities had a social need for each other, a ridiculous idea.
This Christmas, my Dad came and brought me to the front room. I saw my son sitting alone. All his cousins and his brother were off playing with each other and he sat, like an unwrapped present, alone. I began to cry and my father held me and reassured me that he was loved and I was loved but it was time to think a little differently about how I was parenting him. I found a flyer by my bed that night, it was for a New Years dance for people with disabilities being held by a service organization.
My father and I brought my son to the dance. I'm crying right now as I write this because it was such a wonderful night. My son was immediately embraced by those hosting the dance and those attending the dance. He danced all night. By midnight he had the phone numbers of several other teens, by one he had a girlfriend. In one night he was transformed. On New Years Day he was on the phone 12 times with his girlfriend. I even found myself telling him to get off the phone, like I had with his older brother.
I've been thinking about all this over the last many hours since New Years. I think that I kept my son away from this community, and I admit it was a community event and he attended as a member of that community, because though I accepted his disability, I did not accept the disability of others. My prejudice almost kept him from experiencing a whole range of possible friendships. Without the strong encouragement of my father, my son would have spent a lonely New Years.
So on Monday I am going to be in contact with the local Down Syndrome Association, I am going to begin to think more broadly about what it means to parent a child with a disability. This letter to you is part of my new start for the year. I want to thank you for your unrelenting vision of a disability community. Even though I often scoffed at your writing and disagreed with your views, something aways drew me back to read Chewing the Fat every day. In a way I think you were getting me ready to hear what my father had to say.
I had a very Happy New Year, thank you.
Janet, mom to Cory.
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- Unknown said...
Hi Janet
Thank you for your post. Your love and courage are tangible.
Here's to a great year for Cory and for the rest of the family.
Kind regards
- 3 January 2009 at 08:04
- Belinda said...
Wow,Janet, what an amazingly committed mother you are to have fought for the ideals you had for Cory all those years. And what an amazingly humble woman you are to look at things a different way. We can be so committed to a philosophy we try to make people fit "it," rather than the other way around. I admire you so much for letting go of that and looking at the human being in front of you; wondering what he would choose and allowing him a choice.
At the same time, all those years of passionate integration will have benefited Cory so much. Most of all the love of such a committed mother behind him is a gift he has to cherish.
- 3 January 2009 at 08:11
What a beautiful email.
- 3 January 2009 at 08:51
I applaud your courage both to go your own way and to change when you saw the need to. It's always hard to be a mother. I hope your life and your son's continues to get better.
- 3 January 2009 at 13:10
- One Sick Mother said...
Hurray for epiphanies!
- 3 January 2009 at 13:28
- yanub said...
Thanks for sharing this letter, Dave. Janet, you know now what it means to be able to share with others with whom you never have to explain. You will get to meet so many parents who you will also not have to explain to--they already know and accept. What a wonderful way to begin the new year.
- 3 January 2009 at 13:46
- rickismom said...
Dear Janet,
I aplluad you for taking a hard step.
I also have my daughter in inclusion (Ricki has Down s. and is age 14), which I had to fight tooth and nail for,but she does have friends.
However, I always realized that someday her friends will go different paths, so for 3 years now I have had her attend a special-needs exercise group. And it is the highlight of her week.
Your child will always carry the benefit gained from inclusion. But I feel that at some point, we have to be sure that our children not be predujuced themselves against others with disabilities.
Making changes can be very hard. I think you can be very proud of yourself!
- 3 January 2009 at 18:32
- Heike Fabig said...
Yeah, Janet, finding the balance between inclusion and peer support is hard. And listening to your father when you're a grown-up (especially about something he's been going on about, and you feel strongly about) is hard. Congratulations to you for managing both. Your Cory is one lucky boy, and you are a mother I look up to. All the best for 2009!
- 4 January 2009 at 03:18
- stevethehydra said...
I have a lot of thoughts about this, not all coherent and not all in agreement with each other.
But the main thing that comes to mind straight away is how deep-rooted this shows the disablism of non-disabled young people (particularly with regard to neuro/learning disability - as i know a lot of physically-impaired-but-neurotypical people who had as full a social circle as anyone in the "mainstream", and actually wanted to avoid being associated with other disabled people at that age) to be. Does this come from "the system", or is it something less easy to pin blame on, somrething deeply embedded in culture or even in neurotypical psychology?
I may actually respond to this on my own blog - it parallels my own life story in a lot of ways, and i'm really interested by that... tension or possibly even opposition between "full integration" and "disability community"...
I'd be interested to hear Cory's own words on his experiences...
- 4 January 2009 at 07:11
I applaud Janet's courage in taking this important step for Cory.
I also feel sad, though, for all the other children, teens, and adults who are deprived (and later learn to deprive themselves) of the richness that could be brought to their lives through knowing people who happen to share disabilities similar to theirs--IN ADDITION TO the non-disabled people they know.
This is seen all the time among deaf children whose parents not only forbid them to sign but also make a point of avoiding contact with other deaf children. Some parents seem to think that the minute they make a single deaf friend that their life becomes more "liimited." It doesn't. Any time we reject an entire sphere of possible contacts just because of who we are, we constrict our lives, and it can be as constricting in its own way to reject people based on having a disability as it would be if we were to reject them based on not having one.
Yes, a person with disabilities should never, ever, ever be pushed out of the mainstream. They should always have the right to go to the same schools as everyone else. And they should have the right to work in whatever jobs they're qualified for even if it means all or most of their co-workers, bosses, and, YES, the employees who report to them are non-disabled. But this does not mean that we cannot or should not have access to BOTH disabled AND non-disabled people in our lives. Because, you see, it NEVER HAS TO BE AN EITHER-OR CHOICE.
If we say that disabled children should not be associating with other disabled children, then what message does that send about whether ANY disabled child deserves to have friends? If another disabled child is not a "good enough" friend for your disabled child, then how can you convincingly argue that your disabled child is a "good enough" friend for a non-disabled child?
Speaking as a Deaf woman in a hearing world ... yes, I very much value the relationships I have with hearing people, including my hearing parents and hearing relatives and hearing spouse and all my many hearing co-workers. But I ALSO very much value the relationships I have had with deaf people, including some of my friends and former co-workers. And I very much resent any implication that I am "constricting" my life when I have, in fact, WIDENED it by welcoming BOTH Deaf AND hearing people into my life, as well as BOTH non-disabled people AND people with a very wide range of disabilities into my life.
- 4 January 2009 at 11:24
First - Thanks Dave for sharing your blog space once again.
Second - Janet, thanks for letting Dave publish your e-mail, which you undoubtedly intended to be private, and which is now at least a bit more public. Congratulations on your journey, and thanks for remaining open-minded. Just goes to show that life is about learning - for everyone!
Third - well, I've written and deleted the rest of this response several times. There is something that I want to say, but can't seem to locate a "short" way to say it.
(Perhaps I have a disability which involves the inability to be succint when I am impassioned.)
Suffice it to say - nope....still can't get it down to a post of reasonable size.
Pardon my ramblings, but thanks again for sharing Janet. Hoping that both you and your son will have more smiles and less lonliness!
: )
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If you want to attract love, this is the crystal for you. Place it next to your bed as it is effective in drawing love and relationships toward you and it can need a piece of Amethyst to calm things down.
Rose Quartz strengthens the heart and circulatory system. It aids chest and lung problems and heals the kidneys, adrenals and helps vertigo.
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DIY Treehouse Part #4
After we put the roof on, it was time to cover the outside walls of the treehouse. We knew that we wanted to use siding on the exterior, so we had used OSB (oriented strand board) to save on costs. But that needed to be covered with the siding ASAP.
For three of the sides, one being the small jut out where the porch/door is, we used cedar shake shingles. We purchased utility shakes at our local Home Depot. They were approximately $8 a bundle and we used about 8 bundles to complete those walls.
We chose to do a 4 inch reveal for the shakes. This means that 4 inches of the shingle are exposed before the next row is placed on top. I love how it looks! We are planning on leaving them natural.
For the remaining two sides I wanted to have long siding. But I also wanted to keep costs down. We decided to use individual dog eared pickets, also from the Home Depot. They were only $1.64 per picket and were also pressure treated. They measured 5 1/2" wide and 6' long. This made it so that I could still do a 4 inch reveal (amount of each piece seen) and match the cedar shakes on the other sides.
We were just sure to use the saw to cut off the dog ears of the pickets, leaving a flush edge. Here it is partly done.
And here we are all done!
For these two walls I want to paint the siding to match the house, which is a light olive color. We are getting there! What do you think?


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Is BBC America fave Catherine Tate the leading candidate to permanently replace Steve Carell on The Office? That's what sources are telling The Hollywood Reporter. The former Doctor Who companion is "said to be the top choice of the show's producers," according to the trade paper.
Certainly, this would be a dramatic return to the show's British roots, as Ricky Gervais was the boss on the original UK version. The London-born Tate is set to appear in the sitcom's season finale tonight (May 19), in which she'll guest star alongside Gervais, Jim Carrey, Ray Romano, and Will Ferrell.
But there's a catch: Tate's summer theater commitment in a West End production of Much Ado About Nothing (opposite former Who co-star David Tennant) could complicate matters.
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More than 5GW of solar capacity has been installed in India.
The nation added 1.4GW in the last year, reaching 5.13GW in total.
The state of Rajasthan led the way, with the installation of 1.26GW, followed by Gujarat (1GW), Madhya Pradesh (679MW) and Tamil Nadu (419MW).
The government has set an ambitious target of generating 100GW of solar energy by 2022 under its National Solar Mission.
It aims to produce 60GW through ground-mounted solar arrays and 40GW through rooftop panels systems, for which it pledged to spend around £509 million in the next five years.
It has also set yearly targets to monitor solar generation in the county. The target for the current year is 2GW.
Last month, India launched a global solar alliance with France at COP21 in Paris.


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Led Zeppelin Rocks A Lake! They were the world's greatest rock band, no denying that, but they didn't begin that way – in the early days they played some, shall we say, more "obscure" venues? Like Seattle's Green Lake? I… Read More ›
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"Dinner And A Movie" Says "Snap Out Of It!" Bite Into The "Moonstruck Eggs" Recipe! Cher Eats! Nic Cage Chews Scenery!
"Dinner And A Movie" With Cher! Anyone hungry? I am, and in the spirit of my "Dinner In A Movie" series, it's time to share a recipe that screams out, "I need some eggs!" I could make the beautiful eggs… Read More ›
"Bonnie & Clyde"! "Vintage LA" Screening! Pictures From A Revolution!
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Visiting The Real Tombstone! The Truth Behind The Gunfight At The OK Corral! My Trip Across America Visits The Wild Wild West!
Ready For A Gunfight? Meet Me At The OK Corral! That's right, there really is a Tombstone, and there really is an OK Corral – but what really happened there? Time for my son Jeff and I to find out!… Read More ›
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Why would anyone risk so much over a senator's expenses?
I bought a newspaper this morning. The lady at the counter asked if I wanted a receipt. I said no, but it occurred to me: there must be people who expense these things. That's why she asked. A newspaper!
The kind of people who think it fit to claim a newspaper, or a stick of gum, or a cup of coffee on their expenses are not crooks. They are playing by the rules. But that is all they are guided by. Not modesty, or proportion, or common sense, or the simple recognition that it's not their money, but strictly what the rules allow.
And, I suppose, a sense that they are entitled to pocket absolutely everything they can within that limit. The money is sitting there, after all. What are they supposed to do: not take it?
That, essentially, was the moral logic underpinning Mike Duffy's stirring speech to the Senate on Tuesday. There was nothing in the rules that specifically forbade him from claiming thousands of dollars in housing expenses he did not in fact incur. There was nothing in the rules that said you could not claim as your "primary residence" a house you did not in fact live in. So he did.
And then — infamy! — the prime minister made him pay it back. Whatever other charges he may have laid, it was clear that this was his major grievance. The rules said he could take the money (well, they didn't say he couldn't) so it was dirty pool for the prime minister to insist he give it back, on the basis of mere propriety. Worse, he claimed, the prime minister threatened to strip him of his Senate appointment if he did not.
Except, of course, he didn't have to pay it back, as we know: Nigel Wright paid it for him. And he wasn't stripped of his Senate seat, or any of its benefits — not until this week's move to suspend him, along with senators Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau, without pay. But by making that the thrust of his accusation, he gave the prime minister his opening. Wednesday, he took it.
Stephen Harper has not had such a good question period in some time. In contrast to Tuesday's feeble attempts to change the subject, Wednesday he was combative, focused, on his game. Unusually, he took all of the questions directed his way, rather than fob them off on his parliamentary secretary. More unusually still, he answered some of them — the closest he has come to explaining himself since the whole affair began.
Some, but not all: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair had another good outing probing some of the juicier recent leads — sample question: who were the 13 senior Conservatives who (CTV reports) knew of the Wright payment? — to much of the usual prime ministerial dodging. But whenever the subject turned to Sen. Duffy's complaints, Harper was direct and unequivocal. "You're darn right I told him he should repay his expenses," he roared.
That perhaps suggests Sen. Duffy's speech was not quite the "bombshell" it was made out to be. The conventional wisdom is that Duffy so wounded the prime minister that he had to respond. I think it provided him with an opportunity: to frame the whole issue as Ethical Prime Minister Versus Entitled Senators. But it is not about that, any more than it is about Boys In Short Pants Telling Senators What To Do.
We have to distinguish between the dramatic and the germane. Sen. Duffy's speech was a compelling, if pathetic, human spectacle. It did not get at the nub of the expenses scandal. He and the other senators make a good case in terms of due process — that they should not be suspended without a fair hearing. They are on weaker ground in portraying themselves as blameless victims. The pay and perks they stand to lose are not things to which they are entitled, but only accustomed. That which the prime minister giveth, the prime minister can taketh away.
That the prime minister's people play rough is not quite a revelation. Politics is a nasty business filled with nasty people: It's the Sopranos without guns. The issue is not, then, the prime minister's insistence that Duffy repay his expenses, or any threats that may have accompanied it, but everything that came afterward: not only the secret payment, but the campaign of deceit that followed, involving not only the prime minister's chief of staff, but several others in his office, and a number of prominent senators to boot — the stonewalling of the auditors, the doctoring of the Senate committee's report, and on and on.
At the heart of it remains Wright's mysterious decision to cut Duffy a cheque from his personal account: still unexplained, still inexplicable, and not only because of its apparent illegality. (I do not believe Duffy's story that he had to be threatened into taking the money: let's just say it would be out of character.) Leave aside ethics, or law. It makes no sense even as matter of pure expedience. Why risk so much for so seemingly little?
Whether the prime minister knew about it is frankly secondary. On this, the prime minister has been unequivocal from the start; again, I suspect he is content for this to be the focus. While it would surely be fatal if he were found to have lied about this, it remains a scandal even if he didn't. Somehow a number of people around the prime minister absorbed the idea that it was okay to break the law to make an embarrassing political problem go away. That's deeply troubling, whatever he told them, or they him.
It's the why, more than the who, that raises the most disturbing questions. Why on earth would they go to such trouble over a senator's expenses? To paraphrase A Man For All Seasons, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . . but for Duffy?


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CHICAGO (CBS) — There's a hazing cover-up at Wheaton College.
That's the allegation in a lawsuit filed Friday against the Christian school and members of the football team.
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports the victim's attorney claims the cover-up started with the head coach.
"The focus of the lawsuit is the culpability of Wheaton College," says attorney Terry Ekl who represents the alleged victim.
Six months after five former Wheaton College football players were charged with felonies for an alleged hazing incident, they and Wheaton College are now on the civil hot seat.
The school and four of the five players are named in this lawsuit, filed by alleged hazing victim Charles Nagy.
It describes the graphic nature of the alleged incident and blames Wheaton College for letting it happen.
"There is a culture of hazing at Wheaton College that's been going on for decades," says Ekl. "Everybody knows about it, including the football coaches. And they encourage it."
The lawsuit alleges head coach Mike Swider deliberately tried to cover it up.
Within a day after Nagy was bound with duct tape, thrown in a car, assaulted and dumped in an off-campus field.
"He had the players responsible together, coordinate their stories and to begin to try to talk Nagy out of pursuing this matter. And we can prove those things," says Ekl.
Wheaton College spokesperson Latonya Taylor says "we strongly deny that the college has allowed a permissive environment of hazing or violence, and are confident that it will not be found to have legal responsibility."
She stresses a committment to Christ-centered education.
"I think they're hypocrites," says Ekl.
Ekl says he is currently in settlement talks with the fifth player but could add him to the lawsuit later.
The five players are still facing criminal charges of aggravated battery, mob action and unlawful restraint.


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"Sleepers" is the first track ever released by Denmark's The Road to Suicide, a seven-piece band featuring didgeridoo, theremin, and the classic Roland Juno-60 synth amongst its instrumental armamentarium, along with bass, drums, guitars, and a Rhodes electric piano.
Video by Missahleah Jones.
"Sleepers" appears on a split 12" with fellow Danes Spökraket, available through Bandcamp.
We were turned onto this clip by a Twitter tip from Tamaryn. Within minutes Dan became the band's 500th "Like" on Facebook.


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I'm back on this blog. The other blog was "isolated", or seemed that way anyway. I have no further reason to stay over there - probably a few posts here and there but this will now be my main blogging account again.
The only thing now on the divorce front is that I called the sheriff's office today and they are going to arrange to have the divorce papers served to me tomorrow evening where I am living. Their hours and mine don't work as far as going and getting them. I'm at work before their office opens and quitting time is the same as theirs. Contemplating when to tell her I am getting my stuff back.
But, my manager is in the hospital, half his face is paralyzed. It was allegedly some contagious illness, but we are starting to have our doubts. It got worse today and he went to emergency room. I'm definitely not wishing this on him, but this happens to some people that have strokes as well. Who knows, hopefully the docs come up with a much - easier to fix - diagnosis than a stroke.
Of course, when the manager's away, the mice will play. Evidenced today. I had only one delivery and it was short-lived. I spent the day working around the yard, cleaning up other people's messes. Especially in the pipe yard. In fact, our alleged "yard man" makes more messes in there than anyone and doesn't clean up after himself. I fixed the yard this morning only to find he had moved a bunch of pipe to get at some other pipe - but then didn't put any of it back. He also unloaded a truck and just dumped it in the other yard instead of putting it away. It was the inside salesman, though, that were doing much of nothing. There is plenty for them to do and they are - not doing it. Our manager ... has trouble putting his foot down. I dunno, but we are going to lose customers if something doesn't change. I heard it yet again yesterday from a customer that named names and went off about them.
Slowly talking myself into another dog. Been looking at Danes - lots of pups. A few free adult Danes on there as well, but likely problem dogs that will need a lot of work. Not sure this place is a good fit for such an animal. And a rescue agency - but their Danes are older. 6, 7 years old. That 3/4's of their life done and gone. I understand life offering up problems to keep a large dog, but some of the things I have been reading? Lame excuses. All of the pups are costly. $300 to $1000. I will not spend a thousand dollars on a dog. No thanks. I might spend up to $200, I would possibly consider $300 if the dog just took my heart away, but a thousand dollars? Not. They haven't been able to get rid of their problem dog yet, can't get my own until they find a new home for it.
I have had numerous run-ins with that problem dog and it is now obeying me. I won't tolerate an out-of-control dog. I am no Milan but that thing was ridiculous. It still is. It's mainly because it's an outside only dog and it gets very little attention. So, I give it some. But, I am not going to train it, well just enough to obey me to sit down, shut up and chill. It now puts it's tail between it's legs, sit down with it's ears back and gives this pathetic look at me, lol. Proper training would take a lot of time and they are getting rid of it. Not my dog, not my problem. Unless they give up on trying to find a home for it.
Well, have to be at work early. New account. Contractor wants material there by 8 am at the latest. yes, well it's an hour and forty-five minute drive to get there. So, offa here!
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