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In 1940, a small group of children, bullied by intolerant adults, sought the protection of the United States Supreme Court. The nation's highest court spat in their faces. The results were so violent and tragic that the Court reversed itself three years later, trying to call a halt to the injustice it had spawned.
This story--the story of Minersville School District v. Gobitis and West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette--still teaches lessons today about the quality of justice, the character of judges, and the role of courts in spurring, or retarding, social change.
The issue was simple but explosive: Could school authorities require all children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and salute the flag, even if their religious beliefs forbade it? The children at risk were Jehovah's Witnesses; the head of their faith had declared that saluting the flag was idolatry, a violation of the Second Commandment's injunction not to worship "graven images." Thousands of Witnesses in Germany had been persecuted for refusing the Hitler salute, he said. American Witnesses should follow their example.
The Nazi parallel was disquieting. At the time, the prescribed form of taking the pledge, called the Bellamy salute, was a stiff-armed gesture that looked much like the fascist one. When fifth-grader Billy Gobitas and his sister Lillian (the federal courts, never overly concerned with individuals, spelled their name wrong) refused the salute and pledge, they were expelled from school.
Lower federal courts found the case an easy one. Compelling religious objectors to salute a symbol violated the First Amendment's guarantee of "the free exercise" of religion. But when the case hit the Supreme Court, it ran headlong into a judge with a vision: Felix Frankfurter.
Frankfurter, a New Deal liberal, was also an immigrant with an almost mystical love of his adopted country--and an understandable fear of what was happening in Europe. America, not yet in the war, must come together to face the Nazi threat. His emotional plea for unity convinced eight of the justices that the misgivings of a few religious zealots must not obstruct national security. "National unity is the basis of national security," he wrote. "The preciousness of the family relation, the authority and independence which give dignity to parenthood, indeed the enjoyment of all freedom, presuppose the kind of ordered society which is summarized by our flag. A society which is dedicated to the preservation of these ultimate values of civilization may in self--protection utilize the educational process for inculcating those almost unconscious feelings which bind men together in a comprehending loyalty, whatever may be their lesser differences and difficulties." To allow any child to stand aloof "might cast doubts in the minds of the other children."
Billy and Lillian lost--the expulsions stood--but there were many other losers that day at the Court. War hysteria was sweeping the country. Jehovah's Witnesses, who refused to fight for any nation, were already under siege around the country. After Gobitis, persecution mounted. It was, according to one Mississippi legislative proposal, "Open Season on Jehovah's Witnesses." School districts coast to coast adopted the forced pledge and salute. Witnesses--whose faith requires them to preach the Word to non-Witnesses--were accosted by mobs demanding they salute on the spot; those who refused were arrested, beaten, forced to drink castor oil, tarred and feathered, or marched out of town. "They're traitors--the Supreme Court says so," one Southern sheriff, watching a mob, told a Northern reporter. As Shawn Francis Peters documents in his book Judging Jehovah's Witnesses, a mob in Nebraska dragged Witness Albert Walkenhorst from his home and cut out one of his testicles.
Rarely has a decision gone so drastically wrong--and rarely, if ever, has the Court repented so quickly. By 1943, the accession of two new justices--and the switch of three of the Gobitis majority--gave new Justice Robert Jackson a majority to reverse Gobitis. In West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, he wrote for a majority that struck down a West Virginia statute that had incorporated in its preamble the words of Frankfurter's Gobitis opinion. (Unmoved, Frankfurter bitterly dissented.) Jackson's opinion included these now-iconic words:
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Persecution of the Witnesses subsided. This wasn't solely because of the Court's switch; by 1943, the fear of Nazi spies had died down. Still, there can be no question that the demise of Gobitis removed a powerful validation for jacks-in-office who wanted Witnesses out of their towns and mobs that wanted them dead.
Jackson's ringing affirmation of free thought has been quoted countless times since, helping deflate the pretensions of would-be inquisitors in areas from religion to politics to culture. Few who cite his words probably reflect that they represent the Court's apology for its own embarrassing mistake.
We can draw a few tentative conclusions from this sorry episode. First, beware a judge with a vision. Felix Frankfurter saw America in all its glory, the refuge of immigrants, arsenal of democracy, hope of the world. He wanted--oh, how desperately!--his beloved country to unite against Hitler. He tried to hurry that unity along, with awful consequences. Second, the impact of Gobitis was disastrous because Frankfurter's opinion made a bad situation worse. Third, the Court's most influential cases often arise out of attempts to clean up messes it has made itself.
Consider these famous decisions: Brown v. Board of Education, the Court's shining 20th-century moment, reversed its racially contemptuous 1896 decision, Plessy v. Ferguson. Katzenbach v. McClung and Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, upholding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, were partial atonement for the grotesque Civil Rights Cases, an 1883 opinion striking down the progressive Civil Rights Act of 1875. United States v. Darby Lumber in 1941 restored Congress's authority to ban child labor and other oppressive employer practices; the Court had gutted that authority in Hammer v. Dagenhart 20 years earlier. In 1969, Brandenburg v. Ohio, the cornerstone of modern free-speech law, capped a half-century struggle to reverse Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's restrictive opinion in Schenck v. United States. In 2003, Lawrence v. Texas, voiding state laws against consensual gay sex, reversed the truculent opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick 17 years earlier, which had brushed aside the same claim as "facetious."
In each of these cases, the Court removed itself and its authority from blocking social change emanating from elsewhere. In the great sweep of American history, obstructing social change has been, more often than not, the high court's chosen task. Although the Warren Court was an exception, the chief historical role of the federal courts has been to say no to democratically enacted social reform.
The issue of whether courts "produce" social change has been a hot topic among lawyers and political scientists for at least 20 years. The most prominent skeptic is University of Chicago professor Gerald N. Rosenberg, whose 1991 book, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?, concluded that "U.S. Courts can almost never be effective producers of significant social reform." Rosenberg is right, but his thesis is a straw man. Of course, courts can't conjure social change out of the air, like magicians with top hats. Courts don't organize movements or conduct mass education campaigns. Those are the province of ordinary people.
Courts can, however, succeed depressingly often in freezing the status quo and paralyzing legislatures, sometimes for decades. After the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy, the ideal of an integrated society was crushed for more than 50 years. Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) thwarted a national movement to end child labor. Only after Darby, two decades later, was child labor banished from mines and factories. (If you doubt that it would have persisted otherwise, consider that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, upheld in Darby, exempts agricultural work from its child-labor provisions. Last year, Human Rights Watch reported that "hundreds of thousands of children under age 18 are working in agriculture in the United States.")
Rosenberg is hardly alone in noting that Brown did not produce school desegregation--Southern apartheid broke down because the civil-rights movement exposed it and Congress outlawed it. But without Brown, would those victories have been possible, or would they have been delayed another 50 years? Can anyone believe that Congress would have broken the Southern filibuster and outlawed segregation if the Court had reaffirmed it in 1954?
We can, of course, study cases where the Court tried to substitute for a genuine popular movement. Brown was not one; black Americans had carried the idea of integration forward for nearly a century by the time the Court concurred. By contrast, in 1973, the Court decided Roe v. Wade, which leapfrogged ahead of public opinion to "settle" the issue of abortion, setting forth a detailed framework for its regulation in virtually all cases. Abortion-reform movements were stirring, and succeeding, in some states in 1973, but the issue had not been widely aired or made a focus of mass concern. Certainly there was nothing like the movement against school segregation or child labor. The country was feeling its way, and the Court stepped in like an officious parent to "settle" an issue not ripe for settlement.
The aftermath of Roe we know; one of the wellsprings of the early pro-life movement was a deep anger at the Court's presumption in trying to finesse public debate. Pro-lifers like to compare Roe to Dred Scott. It's an absurd comparison in substance, but the two cases share one similarity. In both, the Court imagined it could lay down rules that would not only focus but also end an intense national controversy. This kind of power simply does not inhere in courts.
In 1992, America's leading feminist jurist, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then a judge of the D.C. Circuit, agreed that the Court should have struck down the Texas law, which made any abortion, except to save the pregnant woman's life, a felony. But, she lamented, the Court had gone on to set detailed rules in an attempt to short-circuit the process of social change. "A less encompassing Roe, one that merely struck down the extreme Texas law and went no further on that day ... might have served to reduce rather than to fuel controversy," she wrote.
We can never know whether she was right any more than we can know what would have happened had the Court reaffirmed Plessy. But Roe, as decided, was a failure; beyond that, it was the brainchild of a justice with an agenda, Harry Blackmun. In 1973, Blackmun was no liberal social engineer--he was still a Nixon conservative. He had, however, worked for a decade as general counsel to the Mayo Clinic, and his agenda was to tell society to leave doctors alone.
That problem--the social-engineering judge with an agenda--brings us to the current state of the federal courts. Today's federal bench, particularly the Supreme Court, is well stocked with visionaries who wish to engineer a new country. That new country--a libertarian, corporate-dominated "night watchman state"--isn't one most of us would want to live in.
Forty years of systematic court-packing have produced one of the most aggressively conservative Courts in history. Since its coup d'etat in Bush v. Gore, there has at all times been a bloc of justices who see their role as the kind of officious parent on display in Roe. The hard-right bloc's social engineering is on display in Heller v. District of Columbia (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), which invented a new personal right to handgun possession. No less a conservative figure than Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson of the Fourth Circuit (one of George W. Bush's finalists for chief justice) has written that "in a number of important ways, the Roe and Heller Courts are guilty of the same sins." Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, also no bleeding heart, wrote that Heller "is evidence that the Supreme Court, in deciding constitutional cases, exercises a freewheeling discretion strongly flavored with ideology."
Expanding gun rights is but one part of the agenda the Roberts Court is now eagerly pursuing. This Court has a vision, of an America in which corporations get their due deference as what Justice Scalia calls "the principal agents of the modern free economy." The vision of corporate dominance in politics is on display in Citizens United (2010) and Arizona Freedom Club's Free Enterprise PAC v. Bennett (2011), cases shredding even modest campaign--finance regulation. In the Court's America, both shareholders and employees injured by corporate management must take their lumps. State and local governments mustn't be tied down with a lot of burdensome accountability to citizens--in Connick v. Thompson (2011), the majority brushed aside a tort claim by a man who spent 14 years on death row because prosecutors hid and destroyed evidence that proved his innocence.
The Roberts Court envisions a nation where government and corporate power trump equality and individual rights, and the courts fold their hands while the dirty work is done.
Conservatives would respond to the above with an accusation of hypocrisy. Progressives, they argue, were happy enough with the Warren Court's "visionary" jurisprudence; turnabout is fair play. This image of the Warren Court, though, misreads the historical record. The two dominant influences on the Warren Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren and his intellectual strategist, William Brennan, weren't visionaries of any sort. Both were moderate Republicans, light-years removed from liberal ideologues like the marginal William O. Douglas. The Court's enduring decisions actually have much less to do with setting out what America should look like than with attending to some core functions of courts. Its most important decisions, in fact, had the effect not of forcing judge-designed change but of making it easier for the political process to reflect the genuine wishes of society. Cases like Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which established "one person, one vote" as the rule for American politics, and Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966), which invalidated the poll tax, opened the system up to ordinary people rather than closing it to conform to judicial ideas.
In a second set of cases, the Court took seriously the job of managing its own branch, making sure that courts and police treated defendants fairly. Opinions like Miranda v. Arizona (1966) represent the core function of courts, not an activist overreach.
Third, the Court stepped in to stop gross violations of the Constitution--racial segregation in schools, anti-miscegenation laws, state statutes that banned criticism of government, official actions aimed at silencing the press, mandatory government prayers, and religious qualifications for office. There was nothing new in the idea that these measures were unconstitutional; what was new was a Court that was willing to say so.
What sort of judges should progressives hope for? I am not sure I yearn for a progressive who will sound Scalia-style political bugle calls from the bench. We'd do well to find judges who will focus on the third type of Warren Court case and say that gross and open violations of the Constitution have to stop.
I am haunted by an exchange last fall during oral argument in Brown v. Plata. The dialogue was between Chief Justice John Roberts and Donald Specter, the lawyer for a group of inmates in the California state correctional system. For 20 years, these inmates had been asking the federal courts to correct horrendous abuses in the prison mental-health system. By 2011, no one disagreed that the current system--disturbed inmates locked in small steel cages or languishing for days in their own waste--violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. For two decades, state officials had promised reform, federal courts had deferred action, and conditions grew worse. Then the court below played its final card, ordering the system to release inmates according to a plan that experts say will produce no increase in violent crime.
Chief Justice Roberts, though, was worried about the long-term hardships that observing the Eighth Amendment would impose on states. His objection was not to the prisoner release as such but to the idea that courts could require states to spend money to remedy constitutional violations. More like a conscientious legislator than a judge, he worried about cases that might arise and about the terrible inconvenience to states of court supervision: "What happens when you have this case, another district court ordering the State to take action with respect to environmental damage, another court saying, well, you've got to spend this much more on education for disabled, another court saying you've got to spend this much more on something else? How does the state sort out its obligations?"
Specter braved the chief justice's scowl. "Well," he responded, "my simple answer to your question, Your Honor--and I don't mean to be flippant--but ... they have an obligation to follow the federal law, constitutional law and other laws. And if they're not, then the federal court has an obligation to impose a remedy."
California itself conceded that it was violating the Eighth Amendment. (Subsequently, by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court affirmed the prisoner-release order.) But Chief Justice Roberts was more concerned about the prerogatives of government than about the established law.
Roberts is a visionary. Maybe what we need are judges who will just say, "In this case, the Constitution, or the law, favors this side or that." If we can get visionary judges out of the way in other cases, we the people can handle it on our own.
Eliza Bell (not verified)
Tue, 2011-10-04 07:37
Jehovah's Witnesses have flooded courts around the world for the right to worship as they choose yet they deny those very rights to their followers. One is free to leave the religion on paper but it comes with disastrous consequences. Your family & friends can not have anything to do with you under threat of expulsion themselves. They can't even watch a news program if a former Jehovah's witness is featured. As a Jehovah's Witness you are taught to limit your contact with non-believers and only to form close relations with fellow witnesses. If one chooses to no longer be one you are to be shunned or ostracized. If you work for a Jehovah's Witness you risk losing your job. I chose to leave and if my children follow their father into the religion they are taught to cut me off once they no longer live at home. My own husband is prohibited from speaking to me in regards to anything having to do with the bible or religion even though I still consider myself a Christian. Better yet they teach their followers including my children that those who choose to leave are mentally diseased, inoculated with Satanic rabies, worthy of death, just to name a few. This religion has abused the freedoms they were granted.
ArvinaCopeland (not verified)
Tue, 2011-10-04 08:31
ArvinaCopeland (not verified)
Tue, 2011-10-04 08:40
My mother(a heathen) told me that a boatload of Jews sailed around the world at that time and no country in the world would let them disembark in their port and they had to return home to their destruction. Yet..........America and her allies were dying by the tens of thousands on their way to liberate Jehovah's Witnesses in death camps? This was awfully big of them....... but why not extend equal treatment to the Jews?
ArvinaCopeland (not verified)
Tue, 2011-10-04 08:51
borgfree (not verified)
Tue, 2011-10-04 11:09
Try this:
The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its
leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology,
and practices as the Truth, as law.
Questioning, doubt, and
dissent are discouraged or even punished.
Mind-altering practices
(such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and
debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts
about the group and its leader(s).
The leadership dictates,
sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example,
members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what
types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to
discipline children, and so forth).
The group is elitist,
claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for
example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the
group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
The group has a polarized
us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
The leader is not
accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders
or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
The group teaches or
that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems
necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or
activities they
would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the
group (for
example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus
The leadership induces
feelings of shame and/or guilt iin order to influence and/or control
members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
Subservience to the
leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically
alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the
The group is preoccupied
with bringing in new members.
The group is preoccupied
with making money.
Members are expected to
devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
Members are encouraged or
required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
The most loyal members (the
"true believers") feel there can be no life outside the context of the group.
They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves
or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.
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While cutting people and jobs was painful, Superintendent of Schools Jim Norton said Tuesday, he was proud of where staff had ended with the recent Reduction in Force.
Norton said during Gulf County School Board's regular monthly meeting that the total number of people laid off in the past few weeks was five, instead of the 12-15 initially predicted.
That number does not include the 11-12 person custodial staff which will have the opportunity to transition to a private contractor over the course of June.
"We have not taken lightly what we have done," Norton said. "We have cut through the muscle and the bone. We are literally in the marrow.
"Tears have been shed, prayers have been shared, meetings have been had. At the end of the day we had to do what we had to do and that was a reduction in force."
Sandra Butler, executive director of the union representing district teaching and non-instructional personnel, questioned whether the master contract with the district had been breached when the district did not vote on specific subject areas or evaluation rubrics in making the layoff decisions.
She also questioned why an employee with more than 30 years in the district was not able to "bump" another less-experienced employee, as also spelled out in the master contract.
"It does appear that our master contract has been breached again," she said.
Norton said that the language of the master contract was trumped by state law and a state law passed last year specifically mandates that the district can not consider seniority or tenure in considering layoffs.
"We did the only thing at this point we could do and we followed policies and procedures correctly," Norton said. "We do not take lightly when we have to go against the master plan, or master contract. But we may not prioritize based on seniority."
Board member Linda Wood said she had been questioned about the district advertising for teaching openings while announcing a reduction in force.
Deputy Superintendent for Instruction Sara Joe Wooten said there were a host of factors.
They include if a program is eliminated, the level and kind of teacher certification – critical at Title I schools which receive earmarked federal dollars – performance issues and the transition of teachers from one area or school to another are all factors that create openings while the workforce is being sliced.
"There are a lot of reasons," Wooten said. "You can't just put a warm body in there."
Just this week, the board approved the movement of nearly 10 teachers from one school to another to fill specific needs.
Norton also said he hoped the district was nearing the end of an era of ever-shrinking budgets.
Declining school enrollment remains a nagging issue – Wewahitchka Jr./Sr. High School lost nearly 50 students this year alone – and a bleeder on the bottom line.
"We are fighting to keep our school system that is antiquated," Norton said of a system that is essentially two districts 22 miles apart in the same county.
Consolidation, a consistent topic, is at least five years away even if the district and state had bricks and mortar dollars for a new school, neither of which do at the current time, he added.
Norton said there also seemed to be sufficient signs in the real estate market that property values would begin to rebound after dropping another 5-7 percent this year, according to very preliminary numbers from the Property Appraiser's Office.
Interactive honors courses
In collaboration with the Panhandle Area Educational Consortium (PAEC), the district will be installing a two-way interactive system, called Polycom, to conduct honors level courses between the county's junior/senior high schools.
For example, Wooten said, the district already plans an honors Spanish class that will be taught by a teacher in Port St. Joe and taken by classrooms of students at both schools, with a classroom monitor in Wewahitchka.
Honors science such as anatomy and physiology will also be taught.
"It is really a great thing," Wooten said of the one-year trial. "I can't wait to get it started in the fall."

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Judge: make morning-after pill available to all over the counter
A federal judge decided Friday that girls and women of all ages should have access to emergency contraception as easily as anyone can buy condoms — right off the shelf without a prescription.
From San Diego County to the nation's capital, the ruling set off the latest round of disagreements about the highly sensitive issues of reproductive choice and parental rights. The controversy involves religious organizations, women's advocacy groups, health experts, legal scholars and lawmakers.
U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in New York ruled in Tummino v. Hamburg that the morning-after pill be made available without a prescription or parental permission. This means the drug, sold under the name Plan B One-Step, must be moved from behind the pharmacy counter within 30 days.
Korman's decision struck down the existing policy of the federal government, which requires girls 16 or younger to have a doctor's prescription for the medication. Currently, those 17 or older can purchase the drug from a pharmacist without a physician's approval.
Initially, the Food and Drug Administration had planned to allow universal access to Plan B but was overruled by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. At the time, President Barack Obama said that as a parent he agreed with her.
Korman called the administration's actions "politically motivated." He cited studies supporting wider access to the drug and said the FDA should have been able to carry through on its initial recommendation.
"The decisions of the secretary with respect to Plan B One-Step … were arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," he wrote.
Korman said regulation requires that when the FDA allows nonprescription drug sales, "the standards are the same for aspirin and for contraceptives." He ultimately determined that the government violated those standards in the case of Plan B.
It was unclear Friday whether the government would appeal the ruling.
The FDA made no comment, saying the legal case was ongoing. At the Justice Department, a spokeswoman said officials were reviewing the ruling. And White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama still agrees with Sebelius' decision to set 17 as the minimum age for buying the morning-after pill without a prescription.
The lawsuit was filed in 2005 by the New York City-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which argued that the emergency contraceptive was being held to a different standard than other types of drugs because of politics.
Over the years, numerous groups have expressed formal support or opposition to the government's policy. Lobbyists have included the American Medical Association, various pharmacy associations and organizations promoting traditional family values.
Kenneth Schell, pharmacist in chief at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, said that although there is substantial evidence of the pill's safety, that doesn't mean those who decide to take it should assume there is no medical risk. Side effects may include nausea, abdominal pain, headaches, vomiting and a heavier menstrual period.
"Some type of education with regard to sexual activity and the risks associated with using morning-after pills as a form of birth control should be utilized," Schell wrote in an email.


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Who Would Joe Hill Root For?
There is a myth abroad in this great land that liberals can't stand pro football. Like so many myths, it's partly true, definitely so in refined circles. The violence, the beer commercials—these are an affront to civilized minds. When left-leaning op-ed columnists want to demonstrate that they're in the American swim, they're far more likely to out themselves as baseball fans. But that tic seems to apply across the political spectrum, and geez, isn't it nauseating? Reading George Will on baseball is like watching a praying mantis suit up as a Good Humor man.
Well, I don't care. True, I root for absolutely anyone to beat the New York Yankees when they're in a World Series, because I know Moloch when I see him. Otherwise, baseball may be a national pastime to most, but it never meant squat to me. The NFL, on the other hand, I purely love.
Because I was in my twenties before I got hooked, I'll always be the kind of fundamentally unserious football nut whose enthusiasm is untainted by green-visor expertise, which I regret. But that's hardly a disqualifier here. Like the rootless cosmopolitan I am, I had a long and lonesome trek in search of a team to truly call my own. As happy as I was otherwise in Los Angeles in the '80s, I felt the pinch of a basically football-allergic culture. Midway through their 13-season exile from Oakland, the Raiders couldn't sell out home games even at their peak in a city infinitely fonder of the Dodgers and totally besotted with the Lakers. L.A. will be a football town the same day Salt Lake City gets internationally famous for its red-light district.
The Redskins were one reason I looked forward to relocating to D.C. Little did I know how owner Dan Snyder's obnoxiousness was going to ruin them for me, since the man's got no loyalty to his own team except as an investment-cum-ego stroke. To the Snyders of this world, that may be a tautology. The happy ending came when my wife and I said the hell with it and moved to New Orleans; it's not just that no other sport besides football counts for much down here. For about half the year, planning a Mardi Gras costume aside, no other topic counts for much.
Then again, the Saints got knocked out of the playoffs last week. Who in Vince Lombardi's name am I supposed to root for now? Since I figure more than a few of you out there are in the same boat—and Redskins fans probably guessed they would be by, like, October—I've decided to provide what I'm pretty sure is an American Prospect first: the left-wing dilettante's guide to this weekend's conference championships and February 5's Super Bowl.
If you're like me, the bittersweet fun of the post-season is that you can be as capricious and even as perverse as you want. That's if you don't have money riding on the outcomes, which I never do (not from principle, just because I'm a lousy handicapper). Since loyalty to your home team is moot, you're on a sanctioned vacation from football monogamy. Friends with passionate hometown attachments are the best gateway to affiliation by proxy, but then you risk sharing their heartbreak. I still remember suffering in L.A. with a lifelong Buffalo Bills fanatic through three consecutive Super Bowl losses before even she got fed up the fourth time around and started jeering at the screen. I think it was either that or a straitjacket.
Unless some other factor intervenes, though, "Which team would Joe Hill root for?" has long been my favorite way of settling on my post-season allegiances. Resilient teams from hard-luck cities, proudly blue-collar franchises versus moneyed ones whose sky boxes I imagine crammed with disgusting Georg Grosz richies—yeah, they make signing up easy. So you can see why last year's Packers-Steelers Super Bowl matchup was a real dilemma for me. (Ah, how those names alone sing of a vanished proletarian America, and so forth.) Weighing my fondness for Pittsburgh-the-city and safety Troy Polamalu's "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" act against QB Ben Roethlisberger's unpleasant sexual-assault rap sheet, I finally went Steelers, but I wasn't completely happy about it. Nor was I especially bummed when the Packers won.
A year later, I also barely remember the game. You see, only one emotion can truly stir a fan whose own team is out of the running to rabid post-season mania: hatred. If a team you abominate is in the mix, you're going to be much more stoked to see 'em get taken apart like a cheap watch than to see anyone else succeed—and brother, do I have company in my emnity this year. Googling "New England Patriots" in tandem with "evil empire" netted me 284,000 hits last week.
Trying "New England Patriots" paired with plain old "evil" produced 19 million, FYI. Sometimes, I just love being an American. Anyway, here's my idiosyncratic crib sheet on the last four teams standing:
San Francisco 49'ers. Granted, I'm prejudiced. These jokers would almost certainly have lost to my beloved Saints last week if departing New Orleans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams—bye, Robespierre, your work here is done—hadn't bungled by blitzing them with 40 seconds left on the clock. But I haven't been into the 49'ers since Joe Montana's day, and they don't give an out-of-town fan much to glom onto. Face it, to much of the country—and even to me—it just seems peculiar that arty, ultra-liberal San Francisco even has, wants, or needs a successful NFL franchise. It's like Jacksonville bragging up its world-class symphony orchestra and its busy and helpful Communist Party. Only going up against New England in the Super Bowl could turn non-San Franciscans into frenzied 49'ers fans, and even if they won, we wouldn't be talking on February 6 about how great they were. We'd be talking about our satisfaction at who they beat.
New York Giants. You have to feel for the 2008 Super Bowl's upset winners—over the Patriots—because even that triumph couldn't make 'em chic in New Yorkers' eyes. Not insofar as New York means Manhattan, anyhow, which when chic is the issue it obviously does. Either despite or because of being flightier, the Jets deliver more of what New Yorkers really want from a football team: cocky personalities, trash talk, soap opera. That's why it's peculiarly appropriate that Eli Manning will be overshadowed all the way to the Hall of Fame by big brother Peyton—who didn't even play for the Colts this year and still got more press. These are all excellent reasons to say "Go, Giants." Embrace your inner Dobbin.
Baltimore Ravens. They get points in my book for being the only NFL team whose name is a literary reference. They get more thanks to my fondness for Balmer itself, the only Northeast Corridor city whose working class—just ask John Waters—doubles as its bohemia. And they're the last team standing between the Evil Empire and the Super Bowl. No question who I'm rooting for in that game on Sunday.
New England Patriots. To paraphrase Joan Didion: "What makes the New England Patriots evil?" some people ask. I never ask. It's not just that coach Bill Belichick is such a dick or that Tom Brady—the Holden Caulfield of the NFL—comes across on the tube as the most petulant, self-engrossed star quarterback in sight. Every football era needs one powerhouse team whose combination of obnoxious hubris, Terminator-style corporate M.O. and smirking fans lets the rest of us take refuge in muttering that at least our team is, y'know, human. The Patriots deliver those gratifyingly hateful goods better than any franchise since the Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys, and I suppose we should be grateful that at least—unlike "America's Team" in Landry's day—they don't bring God into it as their über-coach (Denver QB Tim Tebow had a wistful monopoly on that ploy this season). The simple truth is that reviling them is more fun than liking them could possibly be, and Pats fans don't know what they're missing. Whenever their Evil Empire falls short, a briefly united nation rejoices—and it feels really good.
Fri, 2012-01-20 11:38
You mention the Yankees. They're big money, that's right, but all the teams are private franchises, isn't that right? We liberals/leftists like to see big programs that would help the poor, the ill and other disenfranchised. When we get those programs and they work we are PROUD of them. Like social security since 1933.
So with the Yankees.
Who would Joe Hill be for? Well none of the teams are government supported so I guess none, but where did Joe grow up? Who were his childhood buddies? Doesn't that matter? Or are you going impersonal on this?
I like the Giants. I'm from N.Y. originally. I grew up digging Earl Morall to Homer Jones. I have been embarrassed to say I was a football fan not considering much difference between the NFL and college. I was a rocking hippie. I loved Woodstock and then peaceful enterprises like communal living and meditation came up. It was hard to tell the women you liked football. It was mostly women although I did have a best friend who didn't care for sports at all. I wonder why he beat me at racquet ball? Anyway, life gets complicated. We all like lots of things. What kind of music was Joe into, just the folkies?
Fri, 2012-01-20 11:39
Seriously? This is less about a "liberal's guide" to the NFL, and more of you just hating New England. If you were able to look at this objectively, you might see that much of NE's success has to do with good old fashioned liberal orthodoxy. Belichick's philosophy is that the strength of the team is based on having a strong middle class of players. You don't want all of your salary cap going to the "elite" players. Belichick also preaches that no one individual is more important than the team -- in other words sacrifices have to be made for the greater good. Sounds pretty liberal to me.
Fri, 2012-01-20 19:00
This mindless analysis is such a disappointment coming from Tom Carson, an otherwise outstanding writer and critic. The absence of anything that might be mistaken for football savvy makes me think you either got an idea or an assignment and got bored with it about 3 paragraphs in.
Tom Carson
Fri, 2012-01-20 19:28
@deckbose: I'm sorry you didn't like it. But by coincidence, "about 3 paragraphs in" is where I announce my lack of serious football savvy, which I figured was fair warning. My beat is culture, not sports -- and that's true even when I'm writing about the NFL. Just trying to have fun, that's all.
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The Leopard Board is a full featured, ultra low cost, small form factor, high performance digital media SoC development system, which includes a TMS320DM355 Processor board and a 5 MP VGA camera board to provide VGA resolution video capture. The board also provides stereo audio, LCD/DVI, USB 2.0, 10/100 Ethernet, JTAG, and serial interfaces.
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Today the internet is made of millions of computers, but the very nature of the network is changing. New types of devices are connecting to the net every day. Soon cars, medical devices and even toys will be streaming control and data to each other and the world. The number of these devices will overwhelm the number of computers. Already over 1.5 billion Java enabled cell phones communicate with each other on a regular basis. We foresee a day when trillions of such devices form and internet of things.
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UK: Brighton gay couple to marry one minute after law takes effect 6
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Christmas in Barcelona is truly different. People hanging out in the streets with their kids, having a beer while relaxing on an open-air terrace, shopping with their families, and preparing the "Tió", a special tradition in Catalunya where kids hit a wooden trunk with sticks until it poops out presents for them… There are many different reasons to travel to Barcelona during this magical time.
During the Christmas season, Barcelona's street lighting is truly spectacular. The decorative lights are lit one month prior to Christmas day, and for that month leading up to Christmas the streets of Barcelona are a magical winter wonderland. Plaça Catalunya, La Rambla and Portal de l'Angel are the best spots to appreciate the lights that light up the city.
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Being one of the premier painters in the motorcycle world, Seth Boldman, owner of Aggressive Designs Custom Motorcycle Painting in Santa Fe Springs, California, is known for high-end, over-the-top artwork that has attracted some of the most serious connoisseurs of custom bike art. Seth and his talented crew might not be widely known in the hot rod painting world, but his unique style of work has attracted celebrity customers such as Las Vegas Mindfreak Criss Angel and members of L.A.'s notorious bad boy rock band, Mötley Crüe.
"I've been spraying motorcycles for over 20 years, but when I got a request from Transtar Automotive Technologies to paint a muscle car, I was eager to take on the challenge," Seth said. "I've painted a few cars in the past and, even though it's not necessarily my forte or what Aggressive Designs is known for, I was definitely up for the task. And not to sound like one of those same ol' generic muscle car cable television shows, but not only did we have just six months to build and paint the car in order to make it to the '09 SEMA show in Las Vegas, there was one small problem: we had yet to find a car."
Seth and his crew at Aggressive Designs immediately put their heads together and decided an early '70s Camaro would be their canvass of choice. They scoured the Internet in hopes of finding a solid, rust-free second-gen that was nice enough to carry the shop's banner without having to devote too much time to excessive bodywork or panel replacement.
It wasn't long before a clean '71 was found. The deal went through without a hitch and within days the F-body's silver pigment was long gone. "Before the car was even in primer, I decided on painting our newly purchased hot rod to resemble something from the same era as the car, only with a modern vibe," Seth recalled. "I remember seeing pictures of the Baldwin Motion Camaros in hot rod magazines and thinking those cars looked sick. The Baldwin Motion stripes just made those cars look totally bitchin'."
Collectively Seth and the crew at Aggressive have about 100 years of custom paint experience, so they put it all together to formulate a four-stage custom job that would make the Camaro stand out from any car they'd ever seen. With SEMA being one of the biggest stages to showcase their talent, the Aggressive team put together a custom recipe consisting of Mint Green basecoat followed by Aggressive's secret mix of Organic Green. The third stage featured a Lime Green Candy Gold, which was then topped off with Transtar Auto's Glamour clearcoat. The custom hue has been aptly named "Aggressive Anti-Freeze Slime Green." Together with the Baldwin-inspired, flat black graphics, the collaboration creates a unique ensemble that must be seen in person to truly appreciate. The only thing missing are the side pipes, but Seth assures that those are next on the list.
To modernize the car even further, Seth got the idea to incorporate carbon-fiber pieces into the mix. Anvil Auto's Power Bulge carbon-fiber hood for second-gens fit the bill and carries the Baldwin Motion look Seth was going for. Not done raiding the Anvil Auto catalog (www.anvilauto.com), a carbon-fiber nosepiece, trunk lid, and spoiler were also added; not only for looks, but the parts also contribute to a considerable amount of weight savings.


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New For 2013The latest 6-series debuted for 2012, and this year BMW fills out the lineup. The four-door Gran Coupe is now here, in six-cylinder (640i) and V-8 (650i) form. All three body styles can be had with all-wheel drive. In addition to the M Sport package, there is now an honest-to-goodness M6 coupe and convertible (but—not yet—an M6 Gran Coupe). The M6 borrows its powertrain from the M5.
OverviewLike many recent BMWs, the 6-series emerged from its redesign considerably better looking than before. Historically, the 6-series has been offered as a coupe and a convertible. The convertible features a uniquely designed soft top whose rear edges extend rearward, framing a vertical back window that is power operated and can be raised or lowered independently of the roof. Now, BMW is adding the first-ever four-door 6-series, the Gran Coupe (pictured). Like the two-door and the convertible, the Gran Coupe is available as the turbocharged six-cylinder 640i or the 650i with a turbo V-8. The V-8 can be had with all-wheel drive, which is unusual for a coupe/convertible. The 6 also offers a manual transmission (in the 650i), a choice that's increasingly rare in this class. Do not, however, conclude that the availability of a stick shift means the 6-series is a highly involving sports car. It is not. Granted, its performance is impressive—even the 640i can race to 60 mph in 5.5 seconds, and the all-wheel-drive V-8 version can do it in as little as 4.7 seconds. Even quicker is the M6, which returns—as a two-door coupe or convertible only—after a two-year absence. Its turbo V-8 packs 560 hp and is paired exclusively with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. Much more so than before, the new M6 deftly combines luxury and performance.
SafetyFront, side, and side curtain air bags (in the coupe); active head restraints for the front seats; traction and stability control; ABS; a tire-pressure monitor; a rearview camera; adaptive xenon headlamps; and adaptive brake lights are standard on all models. Night vision is optional.
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Chosen in Love
The wonder of divine election is not that God loves us because we are lovely but that He loves us even though there is nothing lovely in us. But in choosing us, He loves us in order to make us ...Read More
Chosen in Christ
John Calvin comments, "The name of Christ excludes all merit, and everything which men have of their own; for when he says that we are chosen in Christ, it follows that in ourselves we are unworthy." May we never think ...Read More
The Golden Chain
That God decided to save His people gives us confidence that "neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be ...Read More
The Divine Initiative
If we use the doctrine of election as an excuse to do no evangelizing in the world, we have perverted the Word of God. No one but Paul more clearly explained the Lord's gracious election, and no one was ever ...Read More
God and Unbelief
When God chooses someone for salvation, He does so in love, working directly in us, making Him the cause of our redemption (1 Peter 1:1–3). But in passing over the non-elect (reprobation), the Lord's work is passive. He does not ...Read More
Man's Radical Fallenness
"Regeneration precedes faith" summarizes biblical soteriology (the doctrine of salvation). Having one's will transformed by the regenerative touch of the Holy Spirit, Jesus says, must come before anyone can enter the kingdom (John 3:3, 5). If you trust in Christ, ...Read More
What is Free Will?
Paul describes in today's passage that even those regenerated by the Spirit face a conflict of desires. If we believe in God's promises, we have a new disposition, but sometimes our old sinful nature raises its ugly head. Sometimes we ...Read More
God's Sovereignty
Arminians must admit that if God provides a mere offer for salvation, there is a chance no one would ever believe and be saved. But this contradicts Scripture, for the Bible says the Messiah will see the successful results of ...Read More
A Received Doctrine
Regardless of the position we take on election, Dr. R.C. Sproul reminds us that the debate between Augustinianism and semi-Pelagianism is an intramural debate between Christians. Therefore, we must treat with respect and charity all those holding to the ...Read More
The Lord is Patient
The call to repent before it is too late should never make us think that God's election will fail to accomplish its purposes. However, the elect will never presume upon the grace and patience of God but will lead a ...Read More
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We LOVED the location, right next to the Matthias Church and Fisherman's Bastion in the quiet, historic castle district.
It was annoying that there was a charge for wifi, even though I'm a HiltonHonors member. Only silver and gold members got wifi free. This level of hotel should not charge for this service. Wifi was free in lobby which made it more acceptable.
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Location on top of the hill on Buda side in historic district makes for hard walks home and expensive surroundings/parking
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Location was excellent, close to public transit making all of Budapest accessible easily. Room was lovely and roomy. We received a a lovely anniversary greeting with champagne and a treat from the front desk staff. All staff was cordial and helpful
Wifi not included. We were booked for the first 2 days as part of our tour and extended for one more day. Breakfast was not part of the day we added on as it had been for the first 2 days, to our surprise.
Location, room
The concierge was not professional, not that friendly and tried to send us to the places she is getting higher commission from. It was very unpleasant experience. We had to go to the next door hotels to get the info we needed. I think that 5 stars hotel can do much better in giving its guests an accurate info.
Breakfast and location
Very helpfull, i got a free checkout for free.
location, size of room, folks at front desk were very helpful
The hotel had a beautiful lobby and the rooms were well-equipped and clean. At first blush, the neighborhood seemed quite gritty but upon further exploration, we found some great restaurants and cafes and ended up really liking the location.
The standard room we booked was quite cramped with a king-sized bed. Also, the hotel charges an extra fee to use the pool and sauna.
Best hotel to stay at in budapest. Perfect location. Very nice rooms and bathrooms. Amazing staff. Would recommend.
Location!!! Breakfast was good.
The first staff member who greeted us insisted we needed a printed voucher to check in even though I had the confirmation email on my phone.....he was somewhat rude. We sought help from another reservationist who was very helpful and got us checked in right away. From then on all staff was extremely courteous.
great location, walking distance to everywhere. There's also bus station close to the hotel.
facilities are pretty old. the room I stayed had very strong smell.
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Sawatch Range > Missouri Mountain > Climber's Log
Missouri Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|West ridge winter ascent
Date Climbed: Jan 30, 2010
|Missouri in winter was a whole lot tougher than I anticipated. We climbed the west ridge from our camp below the summer Cloyses Lake trailhead. The west ridge is LONG and we had to stay above the summer crux on the n.w. ridge along the exposed ridge crest. It's a whole different ballgame up there in winter, but the weather was awesome! Continued over to Iowa and Emerald, then suffered through some epic postholing back to camp. Thank God for strong partners!
|Posted Jan 31, 2010 9:34 pm
|Standard Route
|Long day, went over to Belford after.
|Posted Dec 9, 2009 6:22 pm
|Nice mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009
|Very nice spring hike
|Posted Nov 24, 2009 12:41 am
|Ken Dammen
Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2009
|Climbed the Northwest Ridge Route. Nice day, a little snow remaining from last weeks storms. Continued on and completed Oxford the Belford. Very long tiring day. Over 14 miles total with over 7,000 ft. of elevation gain.
|Posted Sep 29, 2009 1:56 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2009
|Climbed Missouri from Missouri Gulch. 3-8" of snow on the northern slopes and NW ridge. Continued to Iowa and Emerald Peaks. Returned over Elkhead Pass. Nice hike, great views.
|Posted Sep 28, 2009 12:37 am
|In a snow storm
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2009
|Nice day climbing the west ridge untill the snow started to bury us, we were lucky to make it to the summit in these conditons.
|Posted Sep 20, 2009 8:09 pm
|Liba Kopeckova
|great day
|Beautiful day, started from Missouri Gulch. Duchess did great.
|Posted Jul 21, 2009 11:52 pm
|Foxy Long Bottoms
|A Few Things
Date Climbed: May 17, 2009
|Climbed N face snowfields to point 13 something and on to MO, down part of the E.Ridge and then all the way down the "C" Couloir. . .I think.
|Posted May 17, 2009 10:09 pm
|North Couloir Ski
Date Climbed: May 9, 2009
|Ascend and then ski descent of the main north couloir (the one that tops out right below summit). Climed with shanahan96.
|Posted May 11, 2009 10:06 am
|two snow season adventures
Date Climbed: May 9, 2009
|May 9, 2009- climbed missouri's north face with mike. the snow behaved nicely for us, making kicksteps somewhat painless, before topping out just feet from the summit. a fantastic, early couloir season line!
Jan 29-31, 2010- spent three days(21.5 miles/5,270') plugging through an unforgettable adventure on missouri, #33/100 winter. friday's 8.5 mile slog to camp was nightmarish and my body was shot for summit day saturday. that effort cost me a shot at emerald. sunday's hike out wasn't bad and overall it was a productive trip.
|Posted May 10, 2009 10:34 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007
|All alone on top!
|Posted Mar 29, 2009 12:16 am
|Missouri in December
Date Climbed: Dec 6, 2008
|After I slept at the trailhead, Jeff Goodwin and I met at the Rockdale Trailhead at 5:15 AM for our attempt on Missouri Mountain. We waited around until 5:30 just in case anyone else showed up since there were some more people interested in climbing it. At 5:30 we drove through the treacherous stream crossing and drove part way up the road and we found that with very careful 4wd driving we could make it to the first parking area along the road.
We broke then broke trail to Clohesy Lake (part way on snowshoes), but found it to be much easier than expected so the going was faster than we thought it would be. After taking a break at the frozen lake we headed for the mountain. The weather was on and off with brief bouts of snow and some occasional views of the snowy peaks.
The climbing up to timberline was quite steep, but we found scraps of a climbers trail that shown through the snow. Since the entire gully was full of solid ice we stayed on the north side of the gully all the way to timberline. The climb was then just a slippery climb up snowy and grassy slopes to the crux boulderfield just before Point 13,690. The steep boulderfield was a challenge since the rocks were all covered with hoar frost, but we persevered and made the summit after about six hours. There was no visibility at all from the summit and it was just cold and misty, but still interesting because of all the ice covered rocks.
On the descent the sun began to peek through and the clouds and we got some fantastic views of some of the mountains with swirling clouds around their summits. The descent was pretty challenging as well, but we made it back to the vehicle before sunset. It was a great climb.
|Posted Dec 7, 2008 9:34 am
|Missouri Gulch
Date Climbed: Oct 27, 2008
|Peak one of four on this day. Saw an abundance of wildlife with moderate temps. The night on the way out was actually warmer then the day, go figure. Climbed an east facing couloir and finished it off on a crappy rock fin. Good alt to the standard.
|Posted Oct 28, 2008 2:47 pm
|via Clohesy/Cloyses lake
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2008
|It's a nice hike, though the trail is erosion-prone and vague above treeline.
|Posted Sep 2, 2008 6:13 pm
|schlonka long flipper
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008
|After researching several Sawatch 14er possibilities, we decided to tackle Missouri Mountain. The trail was exceptionally crowded on a summer Saturday, but most were headed for Belford. This hike was just gorgeous, nicer than I expected. The trail was uniformly steep, and the summit ridge is a fun, memorable scramble with a little exposure.
|Posted Aug 29, 2008 12:46 am
|Panthera uncia
|north face couloir
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2008
|Climbed up snow directly to the summit via a coulior on the north face! Had summit to myself for 1.5 hours on a Sunday morning!?
|Posted Aug 27, 2008 3:07 pm
|Via NW Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 30, 2007
|Fairly easy hike. Was unable to do all three previously, so had to come back to knock off Missouri. Pauly's first 14er! Not bad for a boy from Missouri.
|Posted Aug 17, 2008 5:00 pm
|Northwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2008
|Started at the Missouri Gulch TH at 7:00, summitted around 11:00, back down to the car at 2:00PM. An easy, steep hike and a fun ridge walk to the summit...very pretty area, one that I'm sure I'll venture back to at some point. For now, I'm just glad that I don't have haul myself up those switchbacks any time in the near future. Talk about a quad workout!
|Posted Aug 8, 2008 6:57 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2008
|I did the Northwest ridge from Elkhead Basin. Pretty bad weather. Avoided it and got to the top but had to cut my summit time down due to the weather coming in from the North. Very fun climb but a little hard.
|Posted Aug 4, 2008 5:03 pm
|Montana Matt
|South Ridge II from Pine Creek Trail
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008
|Backpacked up Pine Creek Trail and camped near Bedrock falls. Left camp around 6:30 and summited around 8:45. It was about 4 miles according to my forerunner. Headed on over to Belford and then Oxford.
|Posted Jul 7, 2008 7:14 pm


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|Passover Recipes Shared by KosherEye Readers
We are sharing some of the Passover recipes we received from KosherEye readers. Enjoy!
Apple Fritters
Submitted by Ron Roth. This is a recipe I got from my Mom. I make it year round even though it is a Pesach recipe. I also posted it on my blog..... oldguyscancook-ron.blogspot.com. Enjoy.
Vis Koekjes - pronounced 'fis koookyes' - Fish Cookies
Submitted by Shainy Evers. My husband and I make this for Chol Hamoed picnics with our little boys and no matter how much we make, there are never any leftovers. This is a recipe my mother-in-law, who lives in Amersfoort, Holland, makes. Enjoy, Shainy Evers
White Fish - (any non expensive fish) cover and bake or boil, then crumble/ mash
Same amount of potatoes. - cooked and mashed
Onion. one to two per pound - grated
Eggs – use approximately one raw egg per pound of fish
Salt to taste
Mix all ingredients together.
Fry in oil until you get a nice golden brown.
You can store in plastic zip bags in fridge, it won't get soggy.
Submitted by Avigayil Pechter
1 3-pound brisket
Brown the brisket for about 10 minutes in a large pot.
Boil for about 30 minutes, then simmer . Add in cranberry sauce and mix.
Bas Hinda's (Passover) Chocolate Torte
Submitted by Channa Shriki. We eat it all year! I think the title says it all. If Bas Hinda had not discovered this amazing creation, I'd not only be hungry and grumpy all Pesach, I'd be thinner too !!! The cake is so good I made it in March- Heshvan for my son's birthday and it disappeared !
Passover Candy
Submitted by Shelly Green. Here is our favorite Passover Candy Recipe: Fruit & Nut & Chocolate Candy.
1 large bag chocolate chips
Moroccan Vegetable Passover Stew
Submitted by Lindsay Shugerman. (Omit the garbanzo beans if not your Sephardic tradition)
1 large peeled and cubed sweet potato
Combine all ingredients, except almonds in a large, heavy pot. Make sure seasonings are well mixed into the liquids.
Cover and cook on medium low, stirring occasionally. Be careful to keep the stew from boiling, as that will bring out a bitter flavor in the veggies and spices.
Cook until all vegetable are tender and onions are transparent and soft. Adjust salt, if needed. Top with sliced almonds.
Senta's German Matzah Balls (They're Supposed to Be Heavy!)
Submitted by Phyllis Zimbler Miller. From the Jewish holiday book SEASONS FOR CELBRATION by Rabbi Karen L. Fox and Phyllis Zimbler Miller (Senta Fox is Karen's mother of blessed memory.)
4 (kosher for Pesach) matzahs
Crumble the matzahs and soak in warm water. Drain water and squeeze mixture as dry as possible. Melt margarine in frying pan; add onions and fry until golden.
Add matzah mixture, stir for a few minutes until warmed. Remove from heat. Add in eggs, spices, parsley. Mix thoroughly and let stand in refrigerator for ½ hour.
Remove from refrigerator and shape mixture into balls (the size of a quarter); roll balls in a little matzah meal to hold the shape. Put on paper plates and store flat. May be frozen if done ahead.
Before cooking test one matzah ball by putting in boiling water or soup. If it separates, roll each matzah ball in a dusting of additional matzah meal. Cook in soup until the matzah balls rise to the top. Recipe makes 6-8 matzah balls.
Note: For those who want lighter matzah balls, use the recipe on the box of matzah meal or the kosher for Pesach mix.
See Phyllis' Amazon author page to find SEASONS FOR CELEBRATION online -- http://budurl.com/PZMAmazonpage


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HP Pavilion dm1-3005au
SpecificationsNotebook: HP Pavilion dm1-3005au (Pavilion dm1 Series)
Processor: AMD E-Series E-350
Graphics Adapter: AMD Radeon HD 6310
Display: 11.6 inch, 16:9, 1366x768 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 1.5kg
Price: 500 euro
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For the price, the HP Pavilion dm1z seems to fit the bill really well. For $499, you get a pretty good price to get started. Overall, for under $500, you will find that the HP Pavilion dm1z is quite a great notebook option to have. Brad Linder from Liliputing has made this cool and thorough review video of HP Pavilion dm1z.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/15/2011
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