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Saturday, May 8, 2010
New Rule: This Mother's Day, Americans Must Extend a Special Thanks to Their Nannies
I'll tell you why. Because we're bullies. Instead of confronting real threats, like the debt or the environment or Utah, we pick out the poorest, most defenseless kid on the block -- illegal immigrants -- and say, "What are you looking at?" But I'll tell you something, you anti-immigrant hoopies -- as usual you're mad at the wrong people. It was corporate America that busted your unions and didn't keep your pay up to the cost of living, causing your wife to have to go to work and Esmeralda to have to come in to watch the kids. Your problem is low wages, not low riders. A middle class life can now only be maintained with the presence of an underpaid underclass. In the 1940s, fewer than one in five moms worked outside the home. Ironically, mostly in bomber factories, to beat Nazi Germany, a place, like Arizona, where you always had to show your papers. I kid, that's an unfair comparison. The Germans knew how to dress.
All this anger that we see aimed at the Mexican underclass might be more understandable if illegals came here with a bad attitude and sent the crime rate soaring -- but they don't. The Justice Department says violent crime in Arizona is at its lowest point since 1971. Property crime is at its lowest since 1966. There is no problem. There's only dicks and the politicians who pander to them.
I know this is anecdotal, but I've hired several immigrant housekeepers -- legal immigrants, I might add, in case anyone at the White House is considering me for a Cabinet position -- and they've all done great work. Especially on my monologue. While the one American-born Caucasian guy I hired to do some handyman work stole my tools. You know who you are, Stephen Baldwin.
And when I drive home every day and see maids trudging up a steep hill to the mansions where they work, and I offer them a ride, I'm astounded: they never refuse, because they're so exhausted that they'll accept a ride from a mysterious gringo blasting rap music, even though that's the beginning of every slasher movie ever. You know, neighbors, you're trusting these women to clean your homes, feed your pets, and give your kids their daily dose of Ritalin -- the least you can do is not make them walk up the hill.
Some time in the distant future, brown people are probably going to -- and I say this without judgment -- breed their way to power in both Europe and America. Arab populations are growing in countries like France and Holland, and I think we all see where this Mexican thing is going in America. That's right, because they fuck more, the darker skinned people are going to rule the world, and white people, for their own self-preservation, should get a start on being nice to them now! Nice! Just be nice, to the poor and desperate people who change our Depends and cook our food, hopefully not in that order.
74 comments:
- jaydee1 said...
i strongly agree with bill here. he is absolutely the most logical thinker i know
- May 8, 2010 at 6:24 AM
- Anonymous said...
I agree with Bill on many issues. Remember when BofA revoked the company that made doors, line of credit the employees locked themselves in the factory and Obama supported them. What happen to the outrage we felt toward "Wall Street"?
Lobbyist are demolishing our chances to get off oil, financial reform and corporations is just another word for PLUTONOMY; The Rich Getting Richer and as long as everyone is smoking WEED*Bill, Aint shit gona happen... There is no more 1960's revolution. But isn't that what we need to shake up these pussy politicians?
- May 8, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
Bill has Nanny's? Hola Miha, you're job is to roll joints--that all--no more smoking it!!
- May 8, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- Anonymous said...
Mysterious gringo blasting rap music, pick-up nanny's tugging up the hill..
I'm in tears, tugging up the hill, Really? Go to Mexico and see if anyone will pull over and say, Hey Grina, wanna sit shotgun in my low rider...
- May 8, 2010 at 8:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you Bill for your weekly dose of sanity. We all appreciate it.
- May 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
Maher is a douche. Bill is always criticizing religion, but somehow he never has a harsh word for the people who keep trying to kill Americans. Muslims. Muslims want to kill Americans.
vaginas like Maher will only criticize those he knows will never hurt him. Liberals are pussies first ALWAYS. Fuck you and anyone who watches this douchebag.
- May 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- Anonymous said...
your show last night was provacative...sometimes you sicken me...not all that often but take for example you said that people should be taken to Guantanomo Bay and tortured, I was pretty horrified...now you come up with "George Will is a great writer"...pretty stupid...he opens with a very predictable run on sentence, slaughters grammar, and pronounces himself victorious...any high school english teacher would give him an F for his misuse...for composition he vomits out some implausible, undefendable, turd of an idea, digresses and pronounces himself victorious...F minus...read (if you can stomach it) his latest "Hostage to a timetable"...his hair is a lie, his bow tie speaks of the need to be the object of affection of his local priest, ...I'm sorry, I don't really know what he and Tucker Carlson, David Frum, et. al. do in the C Street hot tubs while they memorize their talking points and are entertained by the aka Jeff Gannons of the world... but please pick someone literate...
- May 8, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
I love your show. One thing that disturbs me though is your ongoing bashing of Muslims (at least it sounds like Muslim-bashing). Like you, I have no religion but I know many Muslims who are outstanding people and liver cleaner, healthier and saner lives than most Americans.
Don't fuel the Republican-tactic of instilling fear in the hearts of Americans who watch your show by associating Muslims with terrorist.
I wish I could share the experiences my wife and I had in our recent travels to Turkey. Some of the most outstanding people ever met.
- May 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Anonymous said...
I love your show. One thing that disturbs me though is your ongoing bashing of Muslims (at least it sounds like Muslim-bashing). Like you, I have no religion but I know many Muslims who are outstanding people and liver cleaner, healthier and saner lives than most Americans.
Don't fuel the Republican-tactic of instilling fear in the hearts of Americans who watch your show by associating Muslims with terrorist.
I wish I could share the experiences my wife and I had in our recent travels to Turkey. Some of the most outstanding people ever met.
- May 8, 2010 at 11:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
The blogger who stated "Maher is a douche...... F you and anyone who watches this douchebag".
Obviously, you must be one who has watched his show to know what his show is about.
You're brilliant. NOT.
- May 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- saluti said...
Bill... I often ask myself , "Why is it as you describe?" ... After all the preaching and exhortations for change , I agree that our society seems to be coming more polarized & meaner ... I would say this was exemplified , encouraged & crystalized by the way the media treated the Rev. Jeremiah Wright because some of his remarks were critical in much the same way that yours are ... Rather than engaging in dialogue , rapport & reconciliation , he was turfed from the American mainstream , not for reasons of moral correctness but solely for empasizing a political correctness ... I hope the same won't happen again ... saluti
- May 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- ZenGrouch said...
Come on Bill... Be nice to 'em before they physically overwhelm us?
Right, they'll certainly remember our good intentions when they're in charge.
If you want to travel forward in time and see how well that'll work out for benevolent ol' whitie, take a trip to Mexico City, and in English say, "For the love of God, where is the motherfucking bathroom?" and "Whatta ya' mean you want $5 for 4 sheets of 1 ply ass wipe paper?!" to the little old bitch laughing at you when you do find the shitter.
Anyway, by your logic if the crime rate is going down, we should open the borders and bring in more of these people, who could give a flying fuck about getting in line and coming here LEGALLY!
- May 8, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- ZenGrouch said...
How fucked up are things when high school kids are sent home from school for wearing the American flag, not to disrespect it, but to honor it?!
Oh yeah, they did this on Cinco de Mayo. How fucking dare they! Oh, but thank god cooler heads prevailed and kicked their asses out of school.
Cinco de fuckin' Mayo?! it's not even a holiday in Mexico, yet for some motherfucking reason, it's P.I. to show pride in the AMERICAN FLAG on this day?!
OK, the offending assholes were kicked out of school, but was THAT enough?! Apparently not for the students who demonstrated, bringing light to the insensitivity of these gringo motherfuckers in their own country!
I don't know what they want, but they took it to the streets. I guess to make sure that there ain't no American Flag waving on days set aside for Mexicans to party over kicking French ass!
This is fucking ridiculous and all involved in sending those kids home for showing some pride in their country, being the U.S. of fuckin' A., should be sued for every god damned dime they have.
It's a shame when we bend over backwards, giving it all away, because we're afraid to think for ourselves, and say, "Hey... wait a minute, what they're doing is pretty fucked up..."
But no, we're all thinking, "Well sure, that's fucked up, but I don't want anyone to think I'm a racist, or this piece of shit world will come to an end, or something like that."
- May 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- Homo Sapiens Sapien-Roundup Ready™ said...
Wow Bill
If you are formulating your public opinion of illegal immigrants from your cleaning lady, maybe you need to cut down on the herb, dude. Or maybe you need to upgrade your tinfoil hat to a nice steel culendar, the NBA may have found a way around that hack.
At least do some real homework. Detailed reports are all over the web, my tax dollars at waste. Be sure not to just look at the Mexican problem. You are right about the corporations being a major part of the problem: they are the ones who keep the borders porous.
You still funny. Don't you drive a Prius? You better not make Toyota jokes until you get rid of it, you never know when they're going to take over your car's computer and make it look like an accident. If you think I'm crazy, research what car companies are doing with chips to protect their investment when they finance a car. Didn't pay bill? Car not go.
Thanks for reminding me that the last (known) time the Vatican authorized executing people who wouldn't convert was in the 1930s. Never you mind, in 1848 Pope Leo 13th excommunicated everyone living in countries that don't defer their sovereignty to the vatican - especially democracies. So according to these anal retentive sadists, everyone in the world not living in Vatican City, including all Catholics, is going to Hell.
Want to know more? Google "Humanum genus"
Ain't the web grand? Straight to Hell, each and every one, so rock n roll all night, and party every day!
- May 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM
- Homo Sapiens Sapien-Roundup Ready™ said...
and Bill,
if you don't like the inequities, buy your cleaning lady a car. Teach her to drive, get her a license, pay her insurance; do whatever you like, but don't take from the taxpaying poor to fund your charitable whims, dish from your own stash.
You are sounding like a limousine liberal. When is the last time you rode the bus in LA?
- May 8, 2010 at 4:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
Maher IS a douche.
And a dick, too.
- May 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- Unknown said...
This guy acts intelligent but really says the stupidest things. "The crime rate is at it's lowest since the 70's". Yeah, Bill that's because THERE'S MORE PEOPLE. If a small town has 100 people and one decides to commit a murder - that's a 1 % murder rate. If you increase the size of that "town" to 1 million should I actually expect to see 10,000 murders? Fricken bonehead. 15 % of murders last year in the combined states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas were by ILLEGALS. Hey bill next time you're taking another hit (which is probably right now) please smoke that.
- May 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
The blogger who stated "Maher is a douche...... F you and anyone who watches this douchebag".
Obviously, you must be one who has watched his show to know what his show is about.
You're brilliant. NOT
you are reading/writing on a computer, you do not have to watch Maher. touche shithead.
- May 8, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Bryan said...
You may be interested to learn Glen Beck is the Commencement speaker at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va
- May 8, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
George Will gets an A+.
Maher gets an F. Again.
- May 9, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- Artemus said...
I must disagree that "corporate America busted the unions" of the workers, reducing their wages and thus forcing mommies to enter the work force. Unions are responsible in large part for the demise of the American motor industry and are, in fact, responsible for their own demise as well as that of the American car manufacturing industry. That's why Mom had to go to work. American car manufactures didn't realize that you can't pay some high school drop out $70,000 a year to pound sheet metal and then pass that cost (and a lousy car) off to the American consumer. Why do you think Toyota has been the best selling car in the USA for 10 years?
- May 9, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Homo Sapiens Sapien-Roundup Ready™ said...
Actually John,
People aren't reporting crimes because the justice system is AFU. Call the cops? Why not douse yourself with gasoline and light a match? Hey Big Brother, help me with this? Hey! Hey! Stop! No! I don't need reeducating! No! Really! Please! Stop!
The cops are dirty.
- May 9, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Jordi said...
Bill, this one from Spain. I just learned in an advanced class in the University of Valencia that drugs in general, including alcohol, and Marihuana have a very bad effect on the brains of young people. The reason: humans do not have mature brains until they get to the 20's. Important changes take place in the structure and functions of the brain during puberty and early adulthood on its way to maturity. Drugs alter this process and cause of normal growth. I would encourage you to double check with your 'local scientist' to confirm. It will be good next time you endorse marihuana use that it is ONLY For adults. I am enthusiast of your show and views. Thanks, Jordi
- May 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Anonymous said...
I don't watch Bill Maher, and now that I've read him... I still won't.
He's just a humorist, and I was a housewife / mom for a while. Some of my friends did day care while they stayed home.
If he's talking about nannies, he's talking about the people in his neighborhood - who probably don't work and have nannies anyway.
- May 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM
- Zeca said...
I am a journalist from Brasil and I´d like to interview you. Is it possible to send you some questions by email?
Thanks for your attention.
- May 9, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am amazed at your comment that "crime has gone down in AZ." Would you be so kind as to report where you got these stats and why you think they are real?
- May 9, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
Our government is supposed to protect the people and it's time to close our borders to the south. I don't know where your stats were derived from but you are presenting all the facts. You are not subjected to the kidnappings, car stealing, drug dealing, murdering problems that exist in Arizona. One of our ranchers was murdered; another sheriff deputy assaulted with an AK 47 as 5 illegals dropped their drugs in the desert and ran.
Here's one way to have an intelligent discussion with accurate facts; invite Sheriff Joe Arpaio to have a one on one with you! Racial profiling? Please. When citizens are pulled over by police, we have to provide driver's license and registration. It is part of our system. Get your facts straight and come and live here for awhile....Joe can show you what really happens around here.
- May 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
I understand why people are pissed at Arizona. I just don't agree with it. When are we going to stop destroying ourselves and obey our own laws? TOUGH times require tough measures. We should be pissed at our Government for not securing our borders and ports when the planes hit the towers. Not doing so was criminal! Lying to the American people and Getting us into 2 wars we have no business in is CRIMINAL. It is time to rid this country of the parasites[illegals], religous fanatics, and corupt/corporate politicians who want to destroy us from within. They are here now. Our military would be put to much better use here! 911 was the time to place Military at our borders and secure our NATIONs Ports. George Bush and DICKHEAD Chenny should have been tried as the criminals and corporate whores they are. Bill you obviously know nothing about the crime rate in the MIDWEST and many other parts of the country. The Midwest packing house industry started busting unions, hiring illegal immigrants, and politicians years ago. Along with many ILLEGALS CAME "CRANK" Along with crank came much of our crime. When you read the paper or listen to the news in IOWA much of the crime and murder you hear of has a Hispanic Name attached to it...If thats profiling, tough shit!!! I and many others are fucking sick of it..The white middleclass are discriminated against more than anyone. We are losing our neighborhoods and jobs to Many brown people who treat us white people like we do not belong. We are getting outnumbered and sold out by our own crooked Governments and industries at the local and federal levels. Many of the brown people in my neighbrhood are more racist than I have ever been on my worst fucking day. To THEM I say, "Go south of the border and fix your own government". OURS IS FUCKED UP ENOUGH! Our Government consists of corporate whores FUCKING the tax payers, LEGAL AND illegal citizens of this country! I am tired of the local and Federal Government Stealing My MONEY and blowing it on Crazy shit. Fuck, we are so broke you can't even get a pothole fixed but, there always seems plenty more debt dollars for war...This is insanity. Thanks Bill for cutting thru most Bullshit.
- May 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- fuck illegals said...
May 8, 2010
L.A. Teacher Calls for Mexican Revolt in the U.S.
So Bill, better learn to shoot. You have no team.
- May 10, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
Bill why dont you attend town meeting or start pickiting the issues that bother you. You have so many people that are both with and against you. Im with you. I know your a commedian, but you know what your talking about, and you have friends. Keep the commedian character on your HBO show. You reach a lot of middle class people and young people connect with you. You can take office and start a change by actually calling everyone out. You are to brilliant with your comedy, and your political knowlege. Most will be agaist you not because of your stand on issues but the religion, and thats a sham. I agree with you on your recent documentry "Religion" the hard core religious of any religion are waiting for the end, they want it to happen in their life. They are waiting or that nuke to go off, and then when the smoke blows over you realize people are still alive and your goning to realize what Bill Maher and George Carlin make fun of religion on a public stage beacuse they arnt afraid of the after life its the finatics that are out there now that matter before we face anything let alone a "afterlife". Run for office at least senator, and take the office seriously. Also keeping your HBO comedy going so you can still poke fun and give it to them in the raw form only you can deliver. Take a chance what have you really have to lose?
- May 10, 2010 at 6:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
Wow, knowing what I know about folks of the right-wing persuasion, I'm still surprised by all the dumb and clueless comments posted by those who are offended, confused or just pissed off by the comments of smart guy like Bill Maher. I'm not referring to the unimaginative "Bill is such a douche" stuff, but to what's posted by "John", claiming that the decline in the crime rate in this country (information one can easily find at DOJ and other sites, for those who don't know) should be attributed to (get this!) an increase in the population!! Yes, "John" sez that the reason the crime rate seems lower is because, well, there are lots and lots more people now! Yeah. That's right. People who figure out such statistics have no idea as to how these things are calculated...but John does! You know that increase in the unemployment rate? Well, John will tell you that it is not that more people are without jobs but...um, the population has shrunk? Pure mathematical genius.
Then there are also the comments that completely miss the point. Such as Anonymous lady who thinks Bill is taking about "nannies". She tells us that she, as most of us, has never had a "nanny", so Bill is only talking about fancy people in his fancy neighborhood. Which also means that Maher's point (about being decent to and appreciative of those who do so much of the hard but necessary work in this country) has clearly gone WHOOSH! right over the poor lady's head.
And then there's very angry Anonymous who rants and bitches about lots of things, including how his "brown" neighbors, who are possibly quite racist (what's with white bigots calling non-whites racists these days?), should just go home (not the US, apparently) and fix things there and just leave him alone,what with everything in his life going to shit. To angry Anonymous, anyone darker than he can only be foreign - most likely from South of the border, but never American. It is typical for the likes of angry Anonymous to define "real Americans" as people who look like he does (not necessarily what mothers wish for their children). Never mind all thousands of "brown" soldiers now serving and dying in our wars, all while angry Anonymous and fellow racists sit at their computers, in the safety of home, and type away their vitriol, calling for "brown" people to leave & go fix their country (which is never America, and never the country a racist's ancestors came from).
But watch out for these xenophobes and bigots, as one never knows who they could come after next. It could well be the Greeks among us..as in: "Why can't George Stephanopoulos, Arianna Huffington and all those Grecians go fix the mess in their country now?"
Although it would probably the dark-skin Greek they'd be looking for.
- May 10, 2010 at 8:31 PM
- Unknown said...
As if you could keep a good man down. Lena Horne proved you can't keep anyone down. No matter how you try. With your "National day of prayer" or your latest "tea party rally". Just admit it exceptional people are Well .. extraordinary. Whether they just crossed the border last week or maybe they are your typical anchor baby. America is Lena Horne. Wise Up.
- May 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM
- Do the fish! said...
Silly Andy
The extraordinary is just that - not commonplace, so there goes the rest of your phony rationalized assertion.
Suicide is always an option. Indeed, much more reliable than Prozac.
- May 11, 2010 at 5:02 PM
- Unknown said...
Anonymous said...
Maher is a douche. Bill is always criticizing religion, but somehow he never has a harsh word for the people who keep trying to kill Americans. Muslims. Muslims want to kill Americans.
vaginas like Maher will only criticize those he knows will never hurt him. Liberals are pussies first ALWAYS. Fuck you and anyone who watches this douchebag.
May 8, 2010 10:00 AM
What is funny, is that on his front page you can see that on April 30th, he did just that.
As if it wasn't enough... the same points were reiterated in the "religion of piece" video (funny thing about Americans, we don't listen, we just wait to tal- bitch*)
My apologies to Bill, fortunately for you Mr. Maher, it is ignorance such as this - that allows us to outsmart our political enemies. Though, to be perfectly honest, I never really felt threatened by people so blissfully unaware of the world around them, that they could actually call themselves "tea-baggers."
- May 12, 2010 at 10:34 AM
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- May 12, 2010 at 10:44 AM
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- May 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Unknown said...
Sorry, me again about the same post. Though, here is some advice for the rest of the white trash who decide to post before they think. English is a beautiful language, use it correctly and it can be a powerful tool; on the tongue of a moron however, you serve only to exacerbate your own struggle, by perpetuating the stigma that you (like your comments) are ignorant.
- Muslims. - this is not a complete sentence, do not treat it as such.
-vaginas like Maher will only criticize those he knows will never hurt him. Liberals are pussies first ALWAYS. - capitalized his name! but missed that first letter of the sentence... unless of course this is your way of saying that the vagina - as a feminine word, is subordinate to other words, and is therefore reverse capitalized? I mean... I get the whole "women on bottom" thing... it makes for some really boring sex, which by the way? I am a liberal, and I'm proud to be a pussy, because in the same way that you are a grease-ball biggie sized burger and fries from the Dairy Queen circuit? I am what I eat! Which... forgive me for saying... but by that logic... doesn't that make you a dick?
Lastly, and I know you were just TRYING TO PROVE A POINT, BUT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, CRUISE CONTROLLING THE CAPS LOCK TO THROW AWAY YOUR ALREADY DRAMATICALLY DIMINISHED LITERARY CREDENTIALS, IS HONESTLY JUST KIND OF ANNOYING.
- May 12, 2010 at 10:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
- May 12, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- There are no hyphenated criminals said...
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith, becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American… There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1919
- May 12, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
You are perhaps the most arrogant and ignorant political commentator I am aware of today.
Today, on the Situation Room, you claimed that illegal immigration is not a problem and that most of the illegal immigrants are "law-abiding citizens." ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, BY DEFINITION, ARE NOT LAW-ABIDING. You truly need to revisit your reasoning. Please talk to the police officials in Arizona as to whether or not illegal immigration is a problem.
You and our manchurian candidate President, Barack Hussein Obama, are contributing to the downfall of America as we know it. Luckily, the Republicans will take back America in just a few short years.
- May 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Unknown said...
Mostly I agree with you Bill.
Corporate greed and no over sight is the main culprit, they even advertise in Mexico for workers.
I disagree with illegals popping out a kid getting section eight housing and food stamps then inviting fifteen of the relatives to live on my tax dollars in a single family home,listening to loud oompah music and throwing their beer cans over the fence.
And yes poor people and Catholics have always had too many kids. Not limited to "brown people".
- May 12, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- English is a beautiful language said...
Pronunciation: \ˈgȯrm-ləs\
Function: adjective
Etymology: alteration of English dial. gaumless, from gaum attention, understanding (from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum, gaumr) + -less
Date: 1883
chiefly British : lacking intelligence : stupid
— gorm·less·ness noun chiefly British
- May 12, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Soft Invasion said...
Hey anon.
Once the Republicans get America back from the Obama corporatists, how do you propose we get America back from the Republican corporatists? If you have any thoughts on this?
- May 12, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- Bill Maher, Come to Allah! said...
(Arabic: البُراق al-Burāq "lightning") is a mythological steed, described as a creature from the heavens which transported the prophets. The most commonly told story is how in the 7th century, the Buraq carried the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and back during the Isra and Mi'raj or "Night Journey", which is the title of one of the chapters (sura), Al-Isra, of the Qur'an.
- May 12, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- Election 2012 said...
2 years, 9 months to go.
- May 12, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- Got HPD? said...
I'm a fan. Based on some of your interview comments I thought you might appreciate this article:
Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood. These individuals are lively, dramatic, enthusiastic, and flirtatious...
The rest of the article is here:
- May 13, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Anonymous said...
Let's give a shot out to Michele Bachmann. Surely mother of the year candidate. http://suspiciouspackaging.blogspot.com/2010/05/idiot-of-day-michele-bachmann.html
- May 13, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
"The least you can do is not make them walk up the hill..."
Okay, Mr. Maher, that may be true, hard workers deserve a bit of decency. But I wouldn't have a problem with them walking up any hill, or anywhere for that matter, if they just turn around and walk back up LEGALLY WHEN THEY'RE CITIZENS.
- May 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- School of the Americas said...
I loved your tea party hat. After reading these posts I really want to see you with a tinfoil hat... I imagine it folded the way we folded paper 'hats' in second grade. A tinfoil yamika underneath would be cool.
Attaching a couple of tea bags wouldn't hurt either. And X-Ray glasses.
- May 13, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Noticia para todos de los indocumentados de los Estados Unidos:
Bill please help me with this. This is one way to bring this to a head.
Organize and pick a date. All of you who are illegal aliens within the US (or crossing into the US) unite and stand up for yourselves. Stage a mass sick out and go turn yourselves in to ICE or the Border Patrol.
Hire immigration attorneys and ask for immigration hearings. For example, apply for political asylum as economic refugees who are terrified to go back to the cartel violence in Mexico.
#1: It will take months for agents to process all these cases. There is not enough detention space or immigration courts to handle so many cases at once.
#2: You would have to be released within the US with a notice to appear. These NTA's are valid immigration documents until your cases are adjudicated.
#3: It would take years to hear all of these cases. Meanwhile, although you won't be authorized to work, you would reside lawfully in the US until your cases were heard.
Americans who could care less about the law will continue to hire you just like they always have.
Don't cooperate with the Mexican or US Government's tacit agreement to dehumanize you and "keep you in the shadows".
Unite peacefully and call their bluff!
- May 13, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- ZenGrouch said...
"Unite peacefully and call their bluff!"...
Yes, please do...
...what ya' got ta lose?
- May 14, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
Actually Bill, most Arabs list themselves as "Whites" or Caucasions.
By American definitions of "White" (including Arabs and Turks), Europe is 98 percent "White". So Whites will have the power in Europe. And contrary to the myth, Arab birthrates in Europe are only slightly higher these days than European birthrates. Even Arabs are using birth control.
John in Minneapolis
People who are Arab, or part-Arab are presently 5 percent of Europe.
In the U.S., appox. 50 percent of Hispanics also list themselves as "White", either because they are relatively White to begin with, or are products of Anglo/Hispanic marriages, which are common in America.
Including White Latinos, Whites will continue to be the majority in America in the future.
- May 14, 2010 at 6:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
I liked what you said with Jesse Ventura about having a vote of no confidence and scaling it so that if your candidate didn't make the ticket your vote would be included with the one who did. Its much better than just a vote of no confidence, which as Jesse pointed out would leave a lot of seats vacant for long, long time, for good reason. I do think it would be impossible to implement in a way that prevents vote fraud. Considering the scoundrels involved, I think we are forced to keep it very simple, watch it very closely and make the punishment for cheating so heinous that the cheats will be terrified. If they are born to lose death isn't enough of a deterrent, the punishment has to hurt...
As for your support of illegal aliens, I didn't realize you were so desperate for ratings. I thought you'd get a Jihad declared against you, its the religulous thing to do. It should be easy enough, given your heritage and their sensitivity to name calling. Isn't PETA edgy enough anymore? Or was it a CFR initiation challenge? You crazy boy...
- May 14, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Anonymous said...
Good points.
Latinos are not a race. Yes almost half of them consider themselves White.
Arabs are from the Mediteranean, therefore considered White.
- May 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM
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I know, lets just abandon the legal immigration program and degrade ourselves with the much coarser illegal ones.
Report says, 80% of Mexican illegals end up in jail or on welfare.
Report says, 20% Chinese illegals end up in jail or on welfare.
No shit.
Same report quotes Mexican Catholic priest advocating breeding like retarded rats until they spill over the border, to overrun the US system. Boy, do we have internment camps for all of you. Seems the Catholic pedophiles want back the land they stole by rape and genocide, then lost due to war.
Did I forget to mention secret societies? History shows, again and again, secret societies correct the folly of fatheads. USA: brought to you by the Protestant Reformation, served up by the then totally secret Freemasons. Think corrective measures.
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- May 14, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- ZenGrouch said...
"Report says, 80% of Mexican illegals end up in jail or on welfare"...
You'd have to be a stupid fuck, glue huffin', meth head to believe that.
- May 14, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yea Zen, Assembly man from SD says a twice deported illegal killed a cop for a routine freeway stop. You're a cop, what do you think?
Multiple politicians report that 10 billion dollars a year is spent by California taxpayers to address the illegals, and that doesn't measure the lost revenue & jobs.
1300 plus Americans were killed by illegals in Texas in 2007; Los Aztecas, Bill Maher's fucking friends. Bill, a California cop who had a family was killed when he standard traffic event pulled over a guy, who happened to have been deported 2x already. Your friend killed an American father who swore his life to defend your right to disagree with us.
So Bill, when you get arrested for not paying taxes for your illegals, or a speeding ticket in your Prius, I will laugh at you. I wish upon you the pain of slavery, that you wish upon me. And a long fucking life, slave.
You are wrong
- May 18, 2010 at 10:28 AM
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- May 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM
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You stupid fuck...
Where did I say I was for cop killing illegals?
I merely stated that the figure presented was bull shit.
God... I hate it when people on my side of an argument have their heads rammed way the fuck up their anonymous asses.
Sheesh... get a name...
- May 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Andres said...
Bill, I think you are dead on when you speak of religion and it's impact to our world. When I see people professing to represent the religous viewpoint with comments like this person made... Anonymous said...
Maher is a douche. Bill is always criticizing religion, but somehow he never has a harsh word for the people who keep trying to kill Americans. Muslims. Muslims want to kill Americans.
vaginas like Maher will only criticize those he knows will never hurt him. Liberals are pussies first ALWAYS. Fuck you and anyone who watches this douchebag.
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Just makes me realize what a GREAT work GOD has done with this person. I admire your courage to speak out on such touchy subjects. In a world full of people who PROFESS to be God fearing people, it takes alot of guts to say what you say. As for me, I stand dide by side with you. This world is full of leaders with no vision who seem to have one goal, to pander to religion and corporations in order to keep what pathetic little power they may have.
- May 20, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
Check out the article in the NYtimes, 22 May 2010, "It Was a Royal Pain, but it Ended Well". I understand that the pope wrote that the Magna Carta was "not only shameful and base but also illegal and unjust". The pope affirmed that it "dishonours the Apostolic See, injures the king's right, shames the English nation, and endangers the crusade."
Another good addition to what the church has done for the rule of law. There might be hope though as there might have been some extraordinary barons!
- May 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hey Bill, if we had your millions and were on television for a living we wouldn't want to drill anymore either, we could afford the 5 dollar a gtallon gas like you can.
Hey Bill, when is the last time you walked out the front door of your mansion and had to listen to your nieghbors blasting laraza music or have to ride a bus full of mexicans that can not speak english, how many of your staff members speak spanish only? Can your job be taken by an illeagal with a fake I.D.? You really need to come down from your mountain and have a walk in the real world.
Are you planning on runnung for goverment office in the near future and you think you might lose the mexican vote?
Bottom line is if you ever had to walk in the average Americans shoes I think you would feel differently about things but your lifestyle affords you the comforts of being shielded from the everyday things the rest of the world deals with.
- May 30, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- MrSmith2U said...
Yo, Bill. Unrelated to all the craziness I have just read on your blog, I have to agree with one thing - Anonymous Idiots, get a name or are hiding something?
Bill, talk to your producers and get Sarah (TTT) Palin on your show right now! This would be the MOST watched TV show since the invention of television! EVER! Dontcha see the possibilities here? Wake up, man! I am giddy with anticipation just thinking about it - whoops, I think I feel some jism in my drawers. Also, the (TTT) is an anagram for 'the teabagging twit'. Feel free to use it anytime but with due credit or I will have to sue you! I'm sure you know that three fourths of all the worlds lawyers live in the United States.
- June 25, 2010 at 5:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Bill, you call everyone else an idiot and stupid. However, I have not heard one bright or intelligent comment come out of your big mouth. You are an entertainer, not an economist, not a statistician, not an engineer, not even doctor, lawyer or Indian chief. You did not go thru Stalin, Kruscheff, Brezhnev, Hitler or Mussolini and see the death and destruction of such govts. That seems to be where you want the rest of us headed. Read some history. You are the stupid one!
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Hey Bill, My daughter is locked up for @45 days in Coweta County Jailhouse in Newnan, Georgia. Do you know the only book available for her to read; the bible. All other books are banned under the auspices of they aid and abet contraband. Would love to hear your take.
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So, I can understand how non-standard analysis is better than standard analysis in that some proofs become simplified, and infinitesimals are somehow more intuitive to grasp than epsilon-delta arguments (both these points are debatable).
However, although many theorems have been proven by non-standard analysis and transferred via the transfer principle, as far as I know all of these results were already known to be true. So, my question is:
Is there an example of a result that was first proved using non-standard analysis? To wit, is non-standard analysis actually useful for proving new theorems?
Edit: Due to overwhelming support of Francois' comment, I've changed the title of the question accordingly.

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From NWChem
Properties can be calculated for both the Hartree-Fock and DFT wave functions. The properties that are available are:
- Natural bond analysis
- Dipole, quadrupole, and octupole moment
- Mulliken population analysis and bond order analysis
- Electrostatic potential (diamagnetic shielding) at nuclei
- Electric field and field gradient at nuclei
- Electric field gradients with relativistic effects
- Electron and spin density at nuclei
- NMR shielding (GIAO method)
- NMR hyperfine coupling (Fermi-Contact and Spin-Dipole expectation values)
- NMR indirect spin-spin coupling
- Gshift
- Response to electric and magnetic fields (static and dynamic)
- Raman
The properties module is started when the task directive TASK <theory> property is defined in the user input file. The input format has the form:
PROPERTY [property keyword] [CENTER ((com || coc || origin || arb <real x y z>) default coc)] END
Most of the properties can be computed for Hartree-Fock (closed-shell RHF, open-shell ROHF, and open-shell UHF), and DFT (closed-shell and open-shell spin unrestricted) wavefunctions. The NMR hyperfine and indirect spin-spin coupling require a UHF or ODFT wave function.
Vectors keyword
VECTORS [ (<string input_movecs >)]
The VECTORS directive allows the user to specify the input molecular orbital vectors for the property calculation
Property keywords
Each property can be requested by defining one of the following keywords:
NBOFILE DIPOLE QUADRUPOLE OCTUPOLE MULLIKEN ESP EFIELD EFIELDGRAD EFIELDGRADZ4 GSHIFT ELECTRONDENSITY HYPERFINE [<integer> number_of_atoms <integer> atom_list] SHIELDING [<integer> number_of_atoms <integer> atom_list] SPINSPIN [<integer> number_of_pairs <integer> pair_list] RESPONSE [<integer> response_order <real> frequency] ALL
The "ALL" keyword generates all currently available properties.
NMR and EPR
Both the NMR shielding and spin-spin coupling have additional optional parameters that can be defined in the input. For the shielding the user can define the number of atoms for which the shielding tensor should be calculated, followed by the list of specific atom centers. In the case of spin-spin coupling the number of atom pairs, followed by the atom pairs, can be defined (i.e., spinspin 1 1 2 will calculate the coupling for one pair, and the coupling will be between atoms 1 and 2).
For both the NMR spin-spin and hyperfine coupling the isotope that has the highest abundance and has spin, will be chosen for each atom under consideration.
Calculating EPR and paramagnetic NMR parameters: The following tutorial illustrates how to combine the hyperfine, gshift and shielding to calculate the EPR and paramagnetic NMR parameters of an open-shell system.
For theoretical and computational details, please refer to the following references:
- J. Autschbach, S. Patchkovskii, B. Pritchard, "Calculation of Hyperfine Tensors and Paramagnetic NMR Shifts Using the Relativistic Zeroth-Order Regular Approximation and Density Functional Theory", Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 7, 2175 (2011)
- F. Aquino, B. Pritchard, J. Autschbach, "Scalar relativistic computations and localized orbital analysis of nuclear hyperfine coupling and paramagnetic NMR chemical shifts", J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2012, 8, 598–609.
- F. Aquino, N. Govind, J. Autschbach, "Scalar relativistic computations of nuclear magnetic shielding and g-shifts with the zeroth-order regular approximation and range-separated hybrid density functionals", J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2011, 7, 3278–3292.
The user also has the option to choose the center of expansion for the dipole, quadrupole, and octupole calculations.
[CENTER ((com || coc || origin || arb <real x y z>) default coc)]
com is the center of mass, coc is the center of charge, origin is (0.0, 0.0, 0.0) and arb is any arbitrary point which must be accompanied by the coordinated to be used. Currently the x, y, and z coordinates must be given in the same units as UNITS in GEOMETRY.
Response Calculations
Response calculations can be calculated as follows:
property response 1 7.73178E-2 # response order and frequency in Hartree energy units velocity # use modified velocity gauge for electric dipole orbeta # calculate optical rotation 'beta' directly [2] giao # GIAO optical rotation [1,3,6], forces orbeta bdtensor # calculates B-tilde of Refs. [1,6] analysis # analyze response in terms of MOs [6] damping 0.007 # complex response functions with damping, Ref [5] convergence 1e-4 # set CPKS convergence criterion (default 1e-4) end
Response calculations are currently supported only for order 1 (linear response), single frequency, electric field and mixed electric-magnetic field perturbations. The output consists of the electric polarizability and optical rotation tensors (alpha, beta for optical rotation) in atomic units. If the 'velocity' or 'giao' keywords are absent, the dipole-length form will be used for the dipole integrals. This is a bit faster. The isotropic optical rotation is origin independent when using the velocity gauge or with GIAOs [1]. With the keyword 'bdtensor', a fully origin-invariant optical rotation tensor is calculated [1,6]. Note that 'velocity' and 'orbeta' are incompatible. An input line 'set prop:newaoresp 0' outside of the 'properties' block forces the use of an older version of the response code, which has fewer features (in particular, no working GIAO opetical rotation) but which has been tested more thoroughly. In the default newer version you may encounter undocumented features (bugs). 'analysis' triggers an analysis of the response tensors in terms of molecular orbitals. If the property input block also contains the keyword 'pmlocalization', then the analysis is performed in terms of Pipek-Mezey localized MOs, otherwise the canonical set is used (this feature may currently not work, please check the sum of the analysis carefully). See Ref. [6] for an example. Works with HF and density functionals for which linear response kernels are implemented in NWChem.
Please refer to the following papers for further details:
- J. Autschbach, ChemPhysChem 12 (2011), 3224-3235
- J. Autschbach, Comp. Lett. 3, (2007), 131
- M. Krykunov, J. Autschbach, J. Chem. Phys. 123 (2005), 114103
- J.R. Hammond, N. Govind, K. Kowalski, J. Autschbach, S.S. Xantheas, J. Chem. Phys. 131 (2009), 214103
- M. Krykunov, M. D. Kundrat, J. Autschbach, J. Chem. Phys. 125 (2006), 194110
- B. Moore II, M. Srebro, J. Autschbach, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 8 (2012), 4336-4346
Raman calculations can be performed by specifying the Raman block. These calculations are performed in conjunction with polarizability calculations. Detailed description of input parameters at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/jp411039m
RAMAN [ (NORMAL | | RESONANCE) default NORMAL ] [ (LORENTZIAN | | GAUSSIAN) default LORENTZIAN ] [ LOW <double low default 0.0> ] [ HIGH <double high default 'highest normal mode'> ] [ FIRST <integer first default '7'> ] [ LAST < integer last default 'number of normal modes' > ] [ WIDTH <double width default 20.0> ] [ DQ <double dq default 0.01> ] END task dft raman
task dft raman numerical
Sample input block:
property response 1 8.8559E-2 damping 0.007 end raman normal lorentzian end
Raman Keywords
- NORMAL and RESONANCE: Type of Raman plot to make.
- LORENTZIAN and GAUSSIAN: Generation of smoothed spectra (rather than sticks) using either a Lorentzian function or a Gaussian function. The default is LORENTZIAN.
- LOW and HIGH: The default range in which to generate the Raman spectrum plot is (0.0, highest wavenumber normal mode) cm-1. The LOW and HIGH keywords modify the frequency range.
- FIRST and LAST: The default range of indices of normal modes used in the plot is (7, number of normal modes). The FIRST and LAST keywords modify the range of indices.
- WIDTH:Controls the width in the smoothed peaks, using Lorentzians or Gaussians, in the plot. The default value for WIDTH is 20.0.
- DQ: Size of the steps along the normal modes. The default value for DQ is 0.01. It is related to the step size dR used in numerical evaluation of polarizability derivative
Raman Output
Raman spectrum in stick format and smoothed using Lorentzians or Gaussians stored in a filename with format [fname].normal.
Raman References
Please refer to the following papers for further details:
- J. M. Mullin, J. Autschbach, G. C. Schatz, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 987, 32 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2011.08.027.
- F. W. Aquino and G. C. Schatz, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 118 , 517 (2014). DOI: 10.1021/jp411039m
The keyword NBOFILE does not execute the Natural Bond Analysis code, but simply creates an input file to be used as input to the stand-alone NBO code. All other properties are calculated upon request.
Following the successful completion of an electronic structure calculation, a Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis may be carried out by providing the keyword NBOFILE in the PROPERTY directive. NWChem will query the rtdb and construct an ASCII file, <file_prefix>.gen, that may be used as input to the stand alone version of the NBO program, gennbo. <file_prefix> is equal to string following the START directive. The input deck may be edited to provide additional options to the NBO calculation, (see the NBO user's manual for details.)
Users that have their own NBO version can compile and link the code into the NWChem software. See the INSTALL file in the source for details.
Gaussian Cube Files
Electrostatic potential (keyword esp) and the magnitude of the electric field (keyword efield) on the grid can be generated in the form of the Gaussian Cube File. This behavior is triggered by the inclusion of grid keyword as shown below
grid [pad dx [dy dz]] [rmax x y z] [rmin x y z] [ngrid nx [ny nz]] [output filename]
- pad dx [dy dz] - specifies amount of padding (in angstroms) in x,y, and z dimensions that will be applied in the automatic construction of the rectangular grid volume based on the geometry of the system. If only one number is provided then the same amount of padding will be applied in all dimensions. The default setting is 4 angstrom padding in all dimensions.
- rmin x y z - specifies the coordinates (in angstroms) of the minimum corner of the rectangular grid volume. This will override any padding in this direction.
- rmax x y z - specifies the coordinates (in angstroms) of the maximum corner of the rectangular grid volume. This will override any padding in this direction.
- ngrid nx [ny nz] - specifies number of grid points along each dimension. If only one number is provided then the same number of grid points are assumed all dimensions. In the absence of this directive the number of grid points would be computed such that grid spacing will be close to 0.2 angstrom, but not exceeding 50 grid points in either dimension.
- output filename - specifies name of the output cube file. The default behavior is to use <prefix>-elp.cube or <prefix>-elf.cube file names for electrostatic potential or electric field respectively. Here <prefix> denotes the system name as specified in start directive. Note that Gaussian cube files will be written in the run directory (where the input file resides).
Example input file
echo start nacl geometry nocenter noautoz noautosym Na -0.00000000 0.00000000 -0.70428494 Cl 0.00000000 -0.00000000 1.70428494 end basis * library 6-31g* end #electric field would be written out to nacl.elf.cube file #with #ngrid : 20 20 20 #rmax : 4.000 4.000 5.704 #rmin :-4.000 -4.000 -4.704 property efield grid pad 4.0 ngrid 20 end task dft property #electrostatic potential would be written to esp-pad.cube file # with the same parameters as above property esp grid pad 4.0 ngrid 20 output esp-pad.cube end task dft property #illustrating explicit specification of minumum box coordinates property esp grid pad 4.0 rmax 4.000 4.000 5.704 ngrid 20 end task dft property
This keyword generates files using the Molden format. The resulting Molden file (.molden) should compatible with a variety of codes that can input Molden files, e.g.
- Molden
- JANPA (the nwchem2molden step is no longer required when using .molden files and the MOLDEN_NORM JANPA keyword)
- orbkit
- Molden2qmc
- Molden2AIM
he MOLDEN_NORM allows the renormalization of the basis set coefficients. By default, the coefficient values from input are not modified. Using the JANPA value coefficients are normalized following JANPA's convention, while the NWCHEM will produce coefficients normalized according to NWChem's convention. Using MOLDEN_NORM equal NONEwill leave the input coefficients unmodified.
Example input file for a scf calculation. The resulting Molden file will be named h2o.molden
start heat geometry; he 0. 0. 0.; end basis; * library 6-31g;end task scf property vectors heat.movecs moldenfile molden_norm janpa end task scf property


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Presentation of the Mother of God Convent (Bungarby, New South Wales)
|Holy Convent of the Presentation of the Mother of God
|Female Monastery
|Abbess Anna
|Approx. size
|3 nuns
|Bungarby, New South Wales, Australia
|Liturgical language(s)
|Slavonic, English
|Music used
|Russian Chant
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The Holy Convent of the Presentation of the Mother of God is a monastic community for women under the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. The monastery is located in Bungarby, New South Wales, and is currently headed by Mother Anna, the abbess, and has three resident nuns (including the abbess).
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How far would you walk for a glass of clean drinking water? One mile? Two Miles? Did you know that in many countries, like parts of Africa for example, women and children have to walk approximately 3.7 miles to carry gallons of water back to their homes and villages? Generally speaking, women and children usually bear the burden of collecting water by walking to the nearest water source that is contaminated, because that particular water source is shared with livestock and other animals. Thus, consuming contaminated water is their only option.
Water is inter-related with health. We take the ability and freedom to walk a few steps to our faucet and turn it on in order to get a glass of clean drinking water for granted. There are poor developing countries and communities who are challenged with being able to meet basic needs. When we refer to basic needs, it goes beyond what we need to drink or ingest for our daily survival. It includes the need for water to maintain a basic standard of hygiene that is sufficient to maintain health.
At W3, as we reflect on our children and loved ones each day, we think about how it would break our hearts to helplessly watch them suffer and die from simply drinking contaminated water. This could leave them susceptible and vulnerable to diseases such as viral hepatitis, cholera, typhoid, diarrhea and dysentery. When our global neighbors are suffering and dying from not having access to clean drinking water, it is a critical matter and our W3 Team just cannot sit here and do nothing.
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If you do not know the Pioneer Woman you must leave my sight IMMEDIATELY! Do not finish reading this until you visit http://thepioneerwoman.com and spend at least an hour drooling over her amazing website. Then you can come back and read all about my adventure meeting Ree (aka., Pioneer Woman) and Ladd (aka., Marlboro Man/Captain Forearms).
Monday night, P-dub came to the Chenal Wal-mart in Little Rock to do a book signing. I REALLY wanted to go. Richie really didn't. But, being the sweet sweet husband that he is he agreed to go. After work got out we gathered up the book I was gonna get signed for myself and the one I was having signed for my sister for christmas and got in the car to make the hour and a half trip to Little Rock.
We were faced with a slight dilemma. Having not had dinner yet we werent sure whether to eat first and risk being further back in line or wait to eat and maybe get a little closer to the front. Well I had a sneaking suspicion that we would be waiting in line for some time regardless so we opted to eat first. (mmm… Blue Coast Burrito!) With full bellies we finally made it to the Wal-marts at 6:10. The parking lot was FULL! We had to park all the way over in Siberia and walk to the front of the store. When we got in, the lady at the door said the book signing was in the middle of the front near the books.
I could actually see the Pioneer Woman sitting there! I could also see a LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG line of people. I walked and walked and walked and walked and I think just about when we made it all the way around the world and back to Siberia we found the end of the line way in the back near electronics. There were literally HUNDREDS of mostly women in line in front of me. I even saw one lady with an entire CASE of books for Ree to sign!!! (should that be allowed??? 🙂 )
Well I settled in to my place in line. Shortly thereafter some "fans" decided they'd had too much and dropped out. Just like that I moved up four places in line! After what seemed like an hour the line FINALLY started to move. I chatted with the ladies around me. We discussed the book, the website and which recipes we had tried. I even found out that the girl two back from me had gone to summer camp with me in the 90's, in MAINE!!! How cool is that!?
Where was Richie during all this? He had made friends with another husband that was further back in the line and the two of them watched the entire Transformers 2 movie while we waited. Richie asked the guy working in electronics if they could set out some chairs while they watched but he was told that would be considered loitering. Richie was like, "Umm…did you see the 500 ladies standing around over there?" He still didnt get his chair.
When I had about an hour and a half left in line Richie finally came up and joined me. We were starting to get close to where Marlboro Man was greeting everyone and signing books himself. All the women in line of course were getting excited. You could tell when he met someone new because there would be this girlish giggle that would rise above the crowd.
The marketing director was walking around making sure everyone had a post-it note on which to write their name so it would be easier for Ree to sign our books. Richie asked the lady if he could have 10 post-its. She looked at him funny so Richie said "my wife is wordy!" She still looked at him funny but gave him the 10 post-its. In effort to help pass the last hour we were in line Richie decided to write messages on the post-its and post them on the clothing racks for the people behind us. He wrote confucious-style things like "Life is short; this line is long" as well as simple things like "Photographic moment ahead", "Rotisserie Chicken on sale for $2.00 in the Deli" and "Is it Tuesday yet?". We would laugh as we would hear people behind them spotting them and laughing about them. Some people even took pictures of them. I laughed and told Richie he would probably make it onto someones blog!
Finally, I made it to the front of the line! I had my sister in Illinois on speakerphone on my cell because she was wanting to at least hear Ree's voice. As we walked up I said hi and told her she was signing my sister's book and that my sister was on the phone. She laughed and grabbed the phone and TALKED to my sister! How cool is that! My sister was so excited! Richie and I talked with her a few moments and then she took a picture with me. Richie told her all about his plan to start a website called THE FRONTIER MAN and he was planning to call me "the Copenhagen Woman." Gee thanks Richie. Ree said, "Uhoh, I can already feel the heat."
You wait in line so long and then so quickly the moment is over. But it was still SOOOOO cool!
Here are some pictures to chronicle the event. Please keep in mind that NO MATTER what type of camera my husband uses EVERY picture he ever takes of me is blurry! But I love him anyway!
I am now known as the Wife of the Post-it Guy!!!! Richie is "famous" and is just beside himself. He now thinks he is ALL that and more not that he didnt think that already!
Richie's Post-it notes actually made the Pioneer Woman's Blog today! Here is a direct link. http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/
He has also been mentioned on these blogs!!! (Oh goodness!)
Watch out Marlboro Man cause it looks like there is a new man in town…
The Frontier Man!
This post kindly brought to you from Julie, aka. Willowtreecreek, aka. The Wife of the Post-it Guy, aka. The Copenhagen Woman


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I have no problem with the put a guy on 2nd and third. BUT the other team should get that chance IMO not a sudden death. Terrible way to end a baseball game!! No chance for the other team. That is NOT Baseball.Rivershark wrote:Anyone know the season records for these teams? Also wondering if you count 5 inning tournament games as an actual game. The 4-3 Beulah win over Park River was actually tied after 5 innings. The 6th inning consisted of flipping the umpires indicator (which Beulah won) and putting a running on 2nd base. Neither teams scored. The 7th inning consisted of flipping the indicator again (which Beulah won) and putting a runner on 3rd with no outs. Beulah scores, game over. No chance for PR. Maybe should put an asterisk behind that win.
NDPREP wrote:Casselton/Enderlin has had that sudden death for years, strict 5 innings or 90 minutes gets you to the sudden death rounds. Keeps tournaments going and not holding up other games, it's a great run tournament. And yes that win counts and I'm sure gets factored into the seeding.
madseason wrote:If you can't score with a man on third to start the inning then maybe it should be sudden death if you don't score also? Most teams will put a ball in play and score the man on third, so I think the other team should have a chance. IMO. The first extra inning with a guy on second wasn't sudden death I don't think.
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The West Coast 3-year-olds completed their path to Kentucky Derby 2012 on Saturday and I'll Have Another got the bob over Creative Cause in the 75th running of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby.
G1 Santa Anita Derby (4-7-12): 94 BSF (I'll Have Another)
42-1 Baffert bomber Blueskiesnrainbows surprisingly coasted on an easy lead through splits of :23.11, :47.11, and 1:11.14. I'll Have Another stalked on the outside and Creative Cause was relaxed along the rail.
Blueskiesnrainbows still held the advantage after a mile in 1:35.36 but I'll Have Another and Creative Cause were gaining fast. The two favorites crossed the line noses apart with I'll Have Another narrowly getting the job done under Mario Gutierrez. Baffert's longshot pacesetter was another 1/2 length back in 3rd.
Paynter finished 4th, and was followed by maiden Brother Francis, Liaison, Midnight Transfer, Senor Rain, and Longview Drive.
I'll Have Another, trained by Doug O'Neill, competed his nine furlong journey in 1:47.88 and paid $10.20. The son of Flower Alley picked up $450k in graded earnings and heads to Louisville riding a 2-race graded route win streak.
Creative Cause removed the hood and ran well from post one. He qualified for the Kentucky Derby on graded earnings long ago and received a useful prep on Saturday.
I have always thought the Southern California 3-year-olds were a cut below the top Florida runners and continue to hold that belief following the SA Derby.
Kudos to I'll Have Another for proving me wrong on Saturday but he figures to fall short on the first Saturday in May. Creative Cause always runs his race and is the more serious Derby threat.
Santa Anita Derby Grade: B- (82 out of 100)
In the $500,000 Illinois Derby at Hawthorne, Done Talking rallied to an upset victory for sharp Maryland connections Hamilton Smith and Sheldon Russell.
G3 Illinois Derby (4-7-12): 85 BSF (Done Talking)
The pace was honest with Frankie Is Rock and Our Entourage leading through splits of :23.94 and :48.64. Morgan's Guerilla made a wide middle move and was up to 2nd after six panels in 1:13.94.
Morgan's Guerilla struck the front under Rosie Napravnik in the lane but Done Talking and Hakama were finishing fast. In the end, it was Done Talking by 3/4ths of a length over Morgan's Guerilla with Hakama another length and a half back in 3rd.
Saturday Launch was a rallying 4th and was followed across the line by Ring It Up, Skyring, Frankie Is Rock, Pretension, Z Rockstar, Currency Swap, Fastestwhogetspaid, Romancing the Gold, and Slamit.
This looked like a weak Derby prep on paper and did not impress visually while earning a mediocre number.
Illinois Derby Grade: C- (71 out of 100)


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Report: Best Buy Founder to Bid $5B-$6B for Company
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) founder Richard Schulze is reportedly gearing up to offer the consumer electronics giant a fully financed offer of $5 billion to $6 billion to take the company private.
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The former chairman, who stepped down earlier this year, will submit the formal proposal to Best Buy's board of directors before Sunday, and it could be as early as Friday, sources close to the matter told the Star Tribune.
Shares of Best Buy soared more than 15.5% to $14.06 in recent trade. A spokesperson declined to comment.
Schulze, who has been mulling a buy of the Richfield, Minn.-based retailer for months, first offered informally to take the company private for up to $8 billion, or $26 a share, however the company's stock has fallen some 40% since the August bid, fueling speculation that his formal offer would be reduced to reflect the decline.
Schulze has long said he was working on securing financing to fund the deal. The report says he has inked agreements with private equity firms like Cerberus, Leonard Greene and the Texas Pacific Group and is expected to meet with his top advisers, including former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson, this week to discuss preparations.
With the deadline rapidly approaching, Schulze requested a 30-day extension a month ago from the original deadline of mid-November in an apparent effort to digest the company's plunging stock price and to re-evaluate his bid.
Sources told the Star Tribune that he was looking to see how Best Buy's holiday numbers would fare.
Best Buy in November swung to a third-quarter loss as the big-box retailer recorded a drop in same-store sales and a large restructuring charge related to its broader overhaul. The company's first- and second-quarter earnings also suffered double-digit percentage declines.


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MIS Adds More Technology for NASCAR Fans in 2014Share
As a test for all International Speedway Corporation tracks, Michigan International Speedway was the first NASCAR race track to offer Wi-Fi for its fans in 2013 and now, in 2014, is increasing the number of free Wi-Fi hotspots to further enhance the fan experience at the track. After a successful test of six areas in 2013, there will now be 11 different hot spots throughout the facility designated for fans to connect to a free Wi-Fi.
MIS, will continue to offer free Wi-Fi in the following areas:
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New in 2014, there will be free Wi-Fi hotspots in the following areas:
- New Holland Fan Plaza at the speedway's "Welcome Center"
- Four hotspots in the MISCamping.com Infield.
Click here for the Wi-Fi hotspots map.
"We're thrilled to continue bringing more technology to our guests with free Wi-Fi," MIS President Roger Curtis said. "Sharing experiences and being able to stay connected at the track is an important part of the guest experience in any sport, but certainly in NASCAR. Introducing more and new technology for our fans and partners will continue at MIS and all International Speedway Corporation tracks over the next couple of years."
ISC announced in the fall they would begin introducing fully integrated multi-media race day experiences at all their tracks, including MIS, by 2015. These fan enhancements include Wi-Fi hotspots, 4G connectivity, unique, at-track content and large digital high-definition video screens.
"These are incredibly exciting additions for our fans that will make an already amazing live at-track NASCAR experience even better for fans as well as our sponsors."
Free Wi-Fi will be available to all cell phone carriers, though Sprint is always the preferred cell service at MIS.
Fans can now stay up to date on the latest happenings in NASCAR and set their fantasy line up right from the track. They can use the Discover MIS app, download interactive maps, and even buy tickets – all using the free Wi-Fi.
And since nearly 20 percent of its fan-base comes from Canada, this will fill and essential need for international guests to stay in contact with their families across the border.
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Somewhere in England
Dear Em.
The sun is out today, and is drying things up a little. And maybe it doesnt feel good. So do I, for Sam is as usual. Gee but I would like to get a letter from you stating that all is well with you Lena, Pa, Bert, Mary, and Aunt Mollie and Madge yes and all the rest. I suppose you have got as many letters on the way as I have. I guess the governments will do all they can to deliver them though, and here is hoping a few of them reach their destination.
Did you get the other letter I sent from London? I really havent got any news to send you, that is, news that would reach you. I figure that if this much gets to you Im lucky. Yes Im feeling fine. Not a worry in the world only about you folks at home.
This is a piece of paper I picked up on the floor of the tent and I thought as long as I had time, Id scratch a few lines home. We had a good trip on the boat up to the last two days of the voyage. I wasn't sea sick at all which is going some what?
I wish I could wash out some cloths, but it is so damp here all the time and not knowing what minute we might move some where I dare not chance it. We are getting well treated. We get beef about every meal. Sugar is scarce but we can do with out that all right.
We sure do appreciate the warmth in the sun. All the boys express how good it feels. There is some thing I wish you would do and that is to keep that insurance policy running. I am going to allot some of my pay to you so until you begin to hear from this, please keep my policy up.
I hope you folks won't feel the pinch of this war, and if you do, just do what they are doing here. A song that goes Smile, Smile, Smile. Im getting pretty well on to shillings "ha"pennies, half crowns and the rest of the currency now and when Im lucky enough to get some it will come in handy. As I said before Im going to make over some of my pay to you. Has the state made good yet? I hope they are.
Give my regards to all and tell them that Im still there. Tell Lil you've heard from me, for she might not get the letter I sent. Tell the Hollands I was asking for them.
Hoping this reaches you by at least Christmas I remain
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Crockpot Ham & White Bean Soup
This is so easy it almost isn't fair! It really takes less the 5 minutes to throw everything into your crock pot and walk away! This is one of my favorite recipes to fix on Sunday because I can start it quickly before leaving for church.
Ham & White Bean Soup
- 4 cans Navy Beans
- 1 can chicken broth
- 1 pkg Hormel diced ham pieces **
- 2 bay leaves
Pour the cans of beans with the juice and chicken broth into the crock pot. Mix in the amount of ham you desire and place bay leaves in last. Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 4 or more hours. Serve with hot bread or rolls.
** For the ham you can use a ham hock, leftover ham pieces, or I buy the Hormel diced ham which I find in the meat section near the whole hams. I have started only using 1/2 of the package of ham pieces and freeze the other half for the next time! Stock up on the canned products and ham when you have coupons or find them on sale.This makes a really easy meal to always have on hand.
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By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON
DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.
New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas skyscraper.
Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi's checked in to the country but never officially checked out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them overstayed their visas.
Over all, the officials said, about 40 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.
Mr. Smadi's case has brought renewed calls from both parties in Congress for Department of Homeland Security officials to complete a universal electronic exit monitoring system.
Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the Smadi case "points to a real need for an entry and exit system if we are serious about reducing illegal immigration."
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on immigration, said he would try to steer money from the economic stimulus program to build an exit monitoring system.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, immigration authorities, with more than $1 billion from Congress, have greatly improved and expanded their systems to monitor foreigners when they arrive. But despite several Congressional authorizations, there are no biometric inspections or a systematic follow-up to confirm that foreign visitors have departed.
Homeland security officials caution that universal exit monitoring is a daunting and costly goal, mainly because of the nation's long and busy land borders, with more than one million crossings every day. The wrong exit plan, they said, could clog trade, disrupt border cities and overwhelm immigration agencies with information they could not effectively use.
Since 2004, homeland security officials have put systems in place to check all foreigners as they arrive, whether by air, sea or land. Customs officers now take fingerprints and digital photographs of visitors from most countries, instantly comparing them against law enforcement watch list databases. (Canadians and Mexicans with special border-crossing cards are exempt from those checks.)
But homeland security officials said that a series of pilot programs since 2004 had failed to yield an exit monitoring system that would work for the whole nation. They have not yet found technology to support speedy exit inspections at land borders. And airlines balked at an effort last year by the Bush administration to make them responsible for taking fingerprints and photographs of departing foreigners.
The current system relies on departing foreigners to turn in a paper stub when they leave.
Last year, official figures show, 39 million foreign travelers were admitted on temporary visas like Mr. Smadi's. Based on the paper stubs, homeland security officials said, they confirmed the departure of 92.5 percent of them. Most of the remaining visitors did depart, officials said, but failed to check out because they did not know how to do so. But more than 200,000 of them are believed to have overstayed intentionally.
Immigration authorities have put in place a separate system for keeping track of foreigners who, unlike Mr. Smadi, come on student visas. That system has proved effective at confirming that the students have stayed in school and do not overstay their visas, officials said.
Immigration analysts said that given the difficulties of enforcing the United States' vast borders, it remains primarily up to law enforcement officials to thwart terrorism suspects who do not have records that would draw scrutiny before they enter the United States.
"You can't ask the immigration system to do everything," said Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, a research center in Washington, and a former commissioner of the immigration service. "This is an example of how changes in law enforcement priorities and techniques since Sept. 11 actually got to where they should be."
Mr. Smadi, like many tourists who overstay visas, was able to fade easily into society and encountered few barriers to starting a life here, according to court documents and people who know him. He enrolled in high school, obtained a California identification card, landed jobs in two states and rented a string of apartments and houses. He bought at least two used cars, and even procured a handgun and ammunition.
Mr. Smadi's arrest on Sept. 24 for the attempted bombing was not his first encounter with American law enforcement. Two weeks earlier, a sheriff's deputy in Ellis County, Tex., pulled him over for a broken tail light just north of the town of Italy, then arrested him for driving without a license or insurance.
When the deputy checked his identity, Mr. Smadi's name showed up on a watch list by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was already investigating him. But the background check turned up no immigration record. The deputy called the F.B.I. and was told there was no outstanding arrest warrant for Mr. Smadi. So on the evening of Sept. 11, Mr. Smadi paid a $550 fine and walked out of the county jail.
"There was nothing to indicate to us that this person was currently in the States illegally," said Chief Deputy Dennis Brearley.
Mr. Smadi had come to the United States from Jordan in early 2007 on a six-month tourist visa, immigration officials say.
For a few weeks he stayed in San Jose, Calif., with Hana Elrabodi, a retired Jordanian businessman who knew his family, according to Mr. Elrabodi's wife, Temina. Though Mr. Smadi was not authorized to work, he found a job at a local restaurant. In late March, Mr. Smadi obtained a California identification card using Mr. Elrabodi's address.
In October 2007, Mr. Smadi moved into an apartment in Santa Clara with his younger brother, Hussein Smadi, and another man he identified as his cousin, according to the manager of the apartment complex, Joe Redzovic. Mr. Smadi took another job, in a falafel restaurant, and in the winter he briefly enrolled in the Santa Clara High School.
After a fire gutted his Santa Clara apartment, Mr. Smadi moved to Dallas. Though his visa had expired by April 2008, he landed a job working behind the counter at Texas Best Smokehouse in Italy, Tex., about 45 miles from Dallas. He rented a bungalow nearby, using his California identification and passing a criminal background check, said his former landlord, David South.
Three months later, Mr. Smadi married one of his co-workers, Rosalinda Duron. They separated in the fall of 2008 after only three months, Ms. Duron said.
Investigators have found no evidence that Mr. Smadi, during his first year in the United States, openly espoused Islamic fundamentalism. Neither have they found any evidence that he received terrorist training abroad or came to the United States intending to commit a terrorist act, said Mark White, a spokesman for the F.B.I. in Dallas.
But by the spring of 2008, he caught the attention of the F.B.I. by posting incendiary remarks about wanting to kill Americans on Jihadist Web sites. Over the summer, he met with agents posing as members of Al Qaeda and planned to bomb the Fountain Place office building in downtown Dallas, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
His arrest on terrorism charges came after he parked a truck that he had been told was carrying explosives in the building's underground garage, according to court documents.
When the F.B.I. later searched his residence, they found a Beretta 9 millimeter pistol and a box of ammunition, along with his passport and the expired visa, the court documents show.


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So light, so delicately sweet, so delicious… My mouth is watering just thinking about these chocolate chip angel food cupcakes by BakingBites.com.
The only part of the recipe I think they got wrong was where they said, "sometimes you just don't need a whole big cake." I beg to differ – yes I do. But, I suppose these little guys are just as yummy, plus they're portable, so I'm on board.
Reader Laine must have felt the same way, because she extracted her vanilla and creamed her tartar. Unfortunately, when she mixed it all together she ended up with these not-so-heavenly treats.
As you can see, her angel food cupcakes weren't exactly angelic.
She isn't sure where she went wrong; for some reason, they collapsed and stuck to the pan. But none of that matters as much as the answer to the big question we ask about all Food Fails – despite how they look, were they a delicious piece of heaven, or did they taste like hell?
You can catch more of Robyn failing for unknown reasons, just like these cupcakes, at her blog, Hollow Tree Ventures!
This is one of the worst food fails I've ever seen outside my own kitchen. One night I made something new (DANGER! DANGER!) and as I brought it to the table I said, "I hope this isn't s**t," and my kids lost it. Now whenever we eat something new everyone says "I hope this isn't s**t" and laugh.
Angel Food cake will collapse if there is any oil in it at all. If the bowl she used to mix it had oil, if the mixer blade or spoon had oil on them, if the muffin tin has residual oil, or if, heaven forbid, she greased the tins before adding the batter, it will fail. Angel food cake is a pain to make bc most bakers use oil in all baked good in some way or another.
Bleech let the angels keep that "food." I need real cake.


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St. Jospeh edges New Canaan
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That, and some less-than-stellar defense by New Canaan.
Williams out-dueled New Canaan lefty Alex Lapolice and St. Joseph took advantage of a few costly fielding miscues by the Rams to post a 6-3 victory Tuesday afternoon in a game between evenly-matched playoff hopefuls at Shea Field.
Lapolice, New Canaan's starting centerfielder forced to make his second start of the season due to an injury to David Giusti, had a perfect game through three innings. He was helped, ironically enough, by some spectacular defense by shortstop Matt Toth.
But St. Joseph (9-6 overall, 9-4 FCIAC) scored two runs on just one hit and one big error in the fourth to take a 2-0 lead then tacked on four in the fifth on two hits, one walk, one hit batter and two more errors.
New Canaan (11-5, 9-5) responded with three runs in the sixth to pull to within 6-3, but Williams closed the door in the seventh to finish off a solid complete-game victory.
St. Joseph won despite collecting just three hits off Lapolice and reliever Clark Newlove.
"I thought it was a big game. We want to get a home game in the FCIAC playoffs, so I thought this was a must-have game," said St. Joseph coach Jim Chaves, whose team will play its third game in three days Wednesday against Trinity Catholic. "With the standings packed in the way they are, you get a couple losses here and there and you could drop right back to the pack like everyone else."
Williams (4-2), a Union College-bound senior who pitched the Cadets to victory in the Class M state championship last season, kept the game scoreless over the first five innings, matching LaPolice as he was mowing St. Joseph down in order.
Williams allowed just two hits through five innings before giving up three runs on two hits and one error in the sixth.
Williams struck out five and walked two in his 120-pitch effort, working himself out of a few tough jams in the middle innings.
"That was huge because we were definitely not getting good swings out of Lapolice early in the game," Chaves said. "For Nick to be able to match zero for zero with him for that long until we got to him, it was big for the team."
Mike Rotundo walked to lead off the fourth for St. Joseph and Dave Capela followed with a bunt. Lapolice had the out at first, but decided to go to second and threw the ball into centerfield. Both runners ended up scoring on a sacrifice fly by catcher Ishmael Herrera and a two-out double by Williams, St. Joseph's first hit of the game.
New Canaan committed two more fielding errors in the fifth after a leadoff double by Jake Amoroso and the Cadets made it hurt, busting the game open on a two-run single by Herrera.
Newlove, recently up from the junior varsity, got the final two outs of the fifth and pitched a perfect sixth for the Rams.
Dan Rajkowski went 2-for-2 with a walk and one run scored while Nick Cascione doubled and scored a run in the sixth for New Canaan, which has dropped four of its last seven games heading into Wednesday's critical contest at rival Darien.
St. Joseph 6, New Canaan 3
Records: NC-11-5 overall, 9-5 FCIAC; SJ-9-6 overall, 9-5 FCIAC.
Batteries: NC-Alex Lapolice (L, 1-1), Clark Newlove and Zack Smith; SJ-Nick Williams (4-2) and Ishmael Herrera.