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Cut two 14" lengths of brazing rod and make two 90° bends in each as shown, 2" from either end. These are the brush supports.
There are 3 variables you can play with: size of the spark gap, angle of the neutralizing bars, and switching of the Leyden jars in and out of circuit.
Start with the spark gap set to about 1", the neutralizers at 45° to the collector combs (90° to each other), and the Leyden jars disconnected. Turn the crank smoothly at a moderate speed. The electrodes should produce a thin blue spark. Look closely and you'll notice that one end is brighter; this is your positive electrode.
Stop cranking and engage the Leyden jars. These can hold a charge for days. From this point on, consider the machine "hot" until you short the electrodes by simultaneously touching both with the tip of a screwdriver. Also be warned that Leyden jars can acquire charge just sitting there, so you need to discharge them this way each and every time before you touch the electrodes.
Turn the crank again. After several revolutions you'll hear the neutralizing brushes crackle, you'll smell the fresh scent of ozone, and — CRACK! — a strong blue spark will jump the gap.
Short the electrodes and reposition them a little farther apart. Crank some more and you'll see a bigger spark. Repeat this procedure until you see multiple small sparks jump from one of the collectors, across several sectors, to a neutralizing brush. You've reached your maximum spark length.
After you find the maximum gap, you can adjust the neutralizing bars. Narrowing their angle from 90° to about 60° will increase the maximum voltage at the expense of a small decrease in current.
Your machine should require little maintenance, but may require periodic replacement of the belts and cleaning of the disks. Use only water to clean them, or rubbing alcohol if you suspect there is oil on them.
Wimshurst machines had a place in Victorian entertainment. After a fine meal, guests might adjourn to the parlor for games, discussion, and scientific demonstrations. One can imagine the visceral impact of the Wimshurst machine, with its spinning glass disks, electrical discharges, and the loud report of 6" sparks.
For the adventurous, in the right company, there was a demonstration known as the electric kiss. Two volunteers would stand on insulating surfaces. Each would touch one of the 2 charge collectors and then they'd slowly, without any other part of their bodies touching, bring their lips together for the inevitable "tingle" of electricity.
CAUTION: Demonstrate the electric kiss only with the Leyden jars taken out of the circuit, to avoid a painful jolt.
Ford, R.A., Homemade Lightning: Creative Experiments in Electricity, 2001
Francis, G.W., Electrostatic Experiments: An Encyclopedia of Early Electrostatic Experiments, Demonstrations, Devices, and Apparatus, 2005
See the Wimshurst machine in action on Make: television, Episode 103, at makezine.tv/episodes.
This project first appeared in MAKE Volume 17, page 94.
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OK, a newbie question perhaps, so please forgive me - haven't found a similar post in the archives.
Have downloaded and (apparently) installed WordPress ok. Can access a blog and login as admin to create new categories and users, so things generally seem to function.
I'm having problems getting correctly past the login screen tho'. It seems that wp-login.php redirects to wp-admin, so when I correctly enter id and password, I see a directory listing of wp-admin. Not right, surely?
Either this is an Apache setting problem and I need to tweak something to load index.php as the default page in this directory or there's something else I don;t understand (very likely!).
Running on Mac OS 10.2.

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Arendt on Resentment
Until now the totalitarian belief that everything is possible seems to have proved only that everything can be destroyed. Yet, in their effort to prove that everything is possible, totalitarian regimes have discovered without knowing it that there are crimes which men can neither punish nor forgive. When the impossible was made possible it became the unpunishable, unforgivable absolute evil which could no longer be understood and explained by the evil motives of self-interest, greed, covetousness, resentment, lust for power, and cowardice; and which therefore anger could not revenge, love could not endure, friendship could not forgive. Just as the victims in the death factories or the holes of oblivion are no longer "human" in the eyes of their executioners, so this newest species of criminals is beyond the pale even of solidarity in human sinfulness.
-Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Although Hannah Arendt never dedicated an entire chapter or essay to the emotion, she was nonetheless well aware of the insidious pull of resentment. In The Origins of Totalitarianism resentment is mentioned 16 times.
Early in the Origins, Arendt writes, "The social resentment of the lower middle classes against the Jews turned into a highly explosive political element, because these bitterly hated Jews were thought to be well on their way to political power." Here resentment refers to the mobilization of mass antisemitism and the driving force behind the scapegoating of Jews.
By the end of Origins of Totalitarianism, in the lengthy passage quoted above, Arendt refers to resentment as one of many "evil motives" that had in the past made crimes understandable. With the advent of radical evil typical of the Third Reich, however, crimes against human plurality that could neither be punished nor forgiven could also not be explained away by unsavory human emotions and intentions. Here we can see a shift in meaning: in the beginning stages of Nazi occupation, resentment is an emotion that helps to make sense of antisemitic attitudes. With the advent of the death factories we find that evil human motives of self-interest, lust for power and resentment are no longer able to make sense of the world.
I find the ambiguity of the meaning of resentment in Arendt's work fascinating. Origins begins with a fairly common understanding of the emotion as a kind of envious grudge that seeks revenge. But it would be a mistake to understand resentment as the psychological essence of totalitarian rule. For although Arendt acknowledges the role resentment played in the mobilization of social attitudes of antisemitism, she also reveals the limits of human emotions within the Nazi program of destruction. Resentment is not the cause of human destruction. Rather she says,
Propaganda and organization no longer suffice to assert that the impossible is possible, that the incredible is true, that an insane consistency rules the world; the chief psychological support of totalitarian fiction—the active resentment of the status quo, which the masses refused to accept as the only possible world—is no longer there.
But where does resentment go, and what replaces it? Ironically, Arendt saw resentment as the last remnant of humanly recognizable relations—relations that were quashed as a requirement of totalitarian destruction.
To illustrate this point, near the end of the book, Arendt makes a distinction in the torture practices first performed by the Nazi Party's "Brown Shirts," the Sturmabteilung (SA) and later by Hitler's paramilitary, the Schutzstaffel (SS).
Whereas torture for the SA officer was provoked by a heated resentment against all those the SA guard perceived to be better than himself, torture of the magnitude required for the annihilation of a people—the kind that was effectively able to exterminate people long before they became biologically dead—was not the result of any human emotion. It was precisely the total lack of human emotion that enabled this atrocity. Arendt contrasts the irrational, sadistic type of torture driven by resentment and carried out by the SA to the rational calculations of the SS:
Behind the blind bestiality of the SA, there often lay a deep hatred and resentment against all those who were socially, intellectually, or physically better off than themselves, and who now, as if in fulfillment of their wildest dreams, were in their power. This resentment, which never died out entirely in the camps, strikes us as a last remnant of humanly understandable feeling (GH emphasis). The real horror began, however, when the SS took over the administration of the camps. The old spontaneous bestiality gave way to an absolutely cold and systematic destruction of human bodies, calculated to destroy human dignity; death was avoided or postponed indefinitely. The camps were no longer amusement parks for beasts in human form, that is, for men who really belonged in mental institutions and prisons; the reverse became true: they were turned into "drill grounds," on which perfectly normal men were trained to be full-fledged members of the SS.
I glean two points from this passage. First, Arendt believed that the human destruction perpetrated by the Third Reich was an exemplification of what she called the "banality of evil." This is to say that it was not pathologically sadistic and neurotically resentful and self-interested men, but rather "perfectly normal men" who, by following the rules, fulfilled the brutal logic of the Third Reich. Second, the annihilation of the Jews required cold calculation that in effect destroyed the very condition of possibility for resentment: human plurality. And this is where the irony of Arendt's thinking shines through: Resentment disappeared in the camps because understandable human sinfulness disappeared. Through this irony Arendt exposes her readers to a provocative ambiguity: Resentment appears in Origins as both the provocation of criminality and a vague remnant of human plurality.
-Grace Hunt
MLK and the Purpose of Education
You know elite universities are in trouble when their professors say things like Edward Rock. Rock, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and coordinator of Penn's online education program, has this to say about the impending revolution in online education:
We're in the business of creating and disseminating knowledge. And in 2012, the internet is an incredibly important place to be present if you're in the knowledge dissemination business.
If elite colleges are in the knowledge dissemination business, then they will overtime be increasingly devalued and made less relevant. What colleges and universities need to offer is not simply knowledge, but education.
In 1947, at the age of 18, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a short essay in the The Maroon Tiger, the Morehouse College campus newspaper. The article was titled, "The Purpose of Education." In short, it argued that we must not confuse education with knowledge.
King began with the personal. Too often, he wrote, "most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the "brethren" think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end." In other words, too many think that college is designed to teach either means or ends, offering the secrets that unlock the mysteries of our futures.
King takes aim at both these purposes. Beyond the need for education to make us more efficient, education also has a cultural function. In this sense, King writes, Education must inculcate the habit of thinking for oneself, what Hannah Arendt called Selbstdenken, or self-thinking.
"Education," King writes, "must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking." Quick and resolute thinking requires that one "think incisively" and "think for one's self." This "is very difficult." The difficulty comes from the seduction of conformity and the power of prejudice. "We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda." We are all educated into prejudgments. They are human and it is inhuman to live free from prejudicial opinions and thoughts. On the one hand, education is the way we are led into and brought into a world as it exists, with its prejudices and values. And yet, education must also produce self-thinking persons, people who, once they are educated and enter the world as adults, are capable of judging the world into which they been born.
For King, one of the "chief aims of education" is to "save man from the morass of of propaganda." "Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."
To think for oneself is not the same as critical thinking. Against the common assumption that college should teach "critical reasoning," King argues that critical thinking alone is insufficient and even dangerous: "Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals." The example King offers is that of Eugene Talmadge, who had been governor of Georgia. Talmadge "possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or even America." He was Phi Beta Kappa. He excelled at critical thinking. And yet, Talmadge believed that King and all black people were inferior beings. For King, we cannot call such men well educated.
The lesson the young Martin Luther King Jr. draws is that intelligence and critical reasoning are not enough to make us educated. What is needed, also, is an educational development of character:
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.
Present debates about higher education focus on two concerns. The first is cost. The second is assessment. While the cost is high for many people, it is also the case the most students and their families understand that what colleges offer is priceless. But that is only true insofar as colleges understand their purpose, which is not simply to disseminate knowledge or teach critical thinking, but is, rather, to nurture character. How are we to assess such education? The demand for assessment, as well meaning as it is, drives education to focus on measurable skills and thus moves us away from the purposes of education as King rightly understands them.
The emerging debate about civic education is many things. Too often it is a tired argument over the "core" or the "canon." And increasingly it is derailed by arguments about service learning or internships. What really is at issue, however, is a long-overdue response to the misguided dominance of the research-university model of education.
Colleges in the United States were, up through the middle of the 20th century, not research-driven institutions. They were above all religiously affiliated institutions and they offered general education in the classics and the liberal arts. Professors taught the classics outside of their specific disciplines. And students wrestled with timeless questions. This has largely changed today where professors are taught to specialize and think within their disciplinary prejudices. Even distribution requirements fail to make a difference insofar as students forced to take a course outside their discipline learn simply another disciplinary approach. They learn useful knowledge and critical thinking. But what is missing is the kind of general education in the "accumulated experience of social living" that King championed.
I am not suggesting that all specialization is bad or that we should return to religious-affiliated schools. Not in the least. But many of us know that we are failing in our responsibilities to think about what is important and to teach students a curriculum designed to nurture self-thinking and citizenship. We avoid this conversation because it is hard, because people disagree today on whether we should read Plato or Confucius or study Einstein or immunology. Everyone has their discipline to defend and few faculty are willing or able to think about an education that is designed for students and citizens.
Let's stop bad mouthing all colleges. Much good happens there. Yet let's also recall King's parting words in his essay:
If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, "brethren!" Be careful, teachers!
King's The Purpose of Education is your weekend read.
The Nation's War, the War's Nation
U.S. involvement in twentieth-century warfare has mobilized conceptions of American nationhood in ways that have blurred, affirmed, and redrawn the boundaries of collective belonging in complex ways. That was the central message of Richard Slotkin's lecture, "The War Bargain: Military Conflict and the Democratization of American Citizenship," held at Bard College on Thursday, March 22nd. Slotkin, an emeritus professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, has written extensively on the role of the frontier in American national mythology. During this talk, however, he was primarily concerned with the "platoon movie," a genre of 1940s Hollywood film that relied on the small military unit to envision a pluralist, multiracial America.
In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, most political figures and public commentators defined America as a white if not pointedly Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation that secured its standing as a civilized polity, in no small part, through its frontier conquests of "savage" Indian and Latino populations. As Slotkin noted, a similarly racialist conception of American nationhood also prevailed in the years leading up to World War I. Although at the time more than one third of U.S. residents had been born abroad, the federal government continued to define the American nation as a community of common blood and bodily constitution in a manner that excluded most immigrant and minority groups.
This conception of nationhood began to shift with American participation in World War I. Slotkin argued that the need to raise "an army of millions" compelled the federal government to incorporate recent immigrant and non-white minority populations into the country's military forces. In order to achieve such incorporation, key federal agencies constructed a new social bargain that promised to reward loyal military service with new forms of national inclusion. In the process, they redefined the American nation along liberal egalitarian and hyphenated lines. Immigrant and minority soldiers could thereby proclaim themselves American while continuing to affiliate with their ancestral groups and countries of origin.
This bargain proved tremendously successful: Blacks, Jews, Italians, and Irish enlisted in disproportionate numbers, even when they were not naturalized U.S. citizens. But Slotkin contended that it was also marked by telling contradictions and concerted opposition. On the one hand, the new conception of American pluralism went hand in hand with a racially tinged demonization of the German enemy. Indeed, wartime propaganda did not so much repudiate as recycle prevailing American stereotypes by attributing animalistic Black sexuality, Asian deviousness, and cunning Jewish self-interest to the German people. On the other hand, the new dispensation contributed to a significant racist backlash: the years following the war witnessed a spate of race rioting and lynching, often with Black veterans among the targets, while increased efforts to exclude Jews and Eastern Europeans culminated in the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act.
These efforts to re-conceive the nation and its military forces resurfaced in the platoon movies of the 1940s, when the federal government once again sought to rally the nation's varied constituencies to the war effort. Hollywood producers, in cooperation with federal agencies like the Office of War Information, created films like Bataan (1943) and Sahara (1943), which portrayed America's military units as cohesive social worlds in which racial integration appeared self-evident. As Slotkin rightly observed, these films' inclusion of Asian and Black soldiers was particularly radical given that actually existing military units were still segregated along racial lines, as were many of the theaters in which audiences viewed the movies.
Nevertheless, Slotkin argued, these films continued to deploy figures of racial animosity in at least two ways. First, a predilection for ethnic and racial hatred was projected onto the Nazi or Japanese enemy in a manner that justified the American war effort and the films' imagining of national pluralism. And second, white soldiers in these films did impugn the Japanese (in particular) in overtly racist ways, but such diatribes were commonly accompanied by imagery of American transracial cooperation or of Asian soldiers who turned a blind eye to anti-Japanese racism. In the end, then, these films retained a racialist idiom, but they also cast it as more palatable and legitimate than the one adopted by America's foes.
-Jeff Jurgens
Digital Democracy
Cary H. Sherman has written a provocative Op-Ed piece, "What Wikipedia Won't Tell You", arguing in favor of the SOPA and PIPA bills that were recently withdrawn after an unprecedented uproar spurred by the protests of Wikipedia, Google, and other websites. Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry of America, accuses the bill's opponents of propaganda. He writes that the sites that participated in the so-called Internet blackout are guilty of "an abuse of trust and a misuse of power" for producing what Sherman calls "hyperbolic mistruths" about censorship.
It is no secret that the entertainment industry spends millions of dollars on lobbying Congress; information giants like Google, Microsoft, and Apple, also have large and active lobbying budgets. However, in this case, the Internet companies did not deal with Congressmen behind closed doors to secure legislation that would have been beneficial to their business. Instead, the digital world appealed to the people who depend on their technology every day – and it worked. By educating Internet users and voting citizens, the sites empowered people so that they could make an informed decision about how to act.
Sherman worries that the latest protest raises "questions about how the democratic process functions in the digital age." He is right. It certainly does presage an era in which it is much easier to distribute information and activate a body of concerned citizens, something that offers great possibilities for democracy. He is also right that many of those who contacted their congressman had heard only one side of the issue and likely had only a tenuous understanding of what was complicated legislation. But how different is that from any protest or action by large groups of citizens? While mass democracy carries risks and is unpredictable, the "digital tsunami" that Sherman fears also points toward the potential for a more direct and interactive democracy—something along the lines of the "liquid democracy" promised recently by the Pirate Party in the Berlin government.
We should not underestimate the risks of allowing complicated decisions to be heavily influenced by mass protests. However, the reality is that this risk poses the greatest threat to those used to a democracy in which elections are bought and sold and in which a cadre of paid lobbyists has inordinate influence over the writing and passage of legislation. Sherman takes the party line on online piracy and copyright infringement, asking, "When the police close down a store fencing stolen goods, it isn't censorship, but when those stolen goods are fenced online, it is?" A valid question; the digital age does pose problems in terms of traditional copyright law, and these problems must be addressed. Equally important, however, is that we as citizens take back our government from lobbyists and other power brokers. Perhaps Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit, expressed this frustration best:
Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the deficit, there's deadlock, but when Hollywood lobbyists pay them $94 million to write legislation, people from both sides of the aisle line up to co-sponsor it?


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Running Time: 121
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Cast: Heather Lyn, Jade (I), Misti, Diamond (I), Kimi Lixx, Nikita Denise, Paige Sinclair
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Gonzo
Slick, reflective box cover is eye-catching; display accordingly.
There's so much action happening on this tape that the Elegant Angel crew can barely manage to shoot it all. In the first segment, Nikita Denise and Diamond team up with two horse-cocks for some wild deep throat and A2M frolics. Jade does a long, slower-paced scene with Vince Vouyer, but the memory fades next to the threeway starring Heather Lyn, Dillion Day and Paige Sinclair. Holy ass-fucking sluts, Batman! Not only does Sinclair exhibit some of the dirtiest bisexual behavior known to womankind, but the screaming, contorted Lyn makes the cocksman throttle her until she passes out - repeatedly. When the usual porn ennui is ruptured by such beyond-the-call shenanigans, it's hats-off time at this AVN editor's desk. Stock it.


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Blogs Liberty and Power Why Incitement to Religious Hatred Should Not Be a CrimeAug 22, 2005 5:45 am
Why Incitement to Religious Hatred Should Not Be a Crime
This session the British government is pushing through Parliament a bill to make incitement to religious hatred a crime. Similar legislation is already in effect in the state of Victoria in Australia. An Australian Muslim, Amir Butler, argues that Victoria's laws against incitement to religious hatred have sown division, and undermined freedom of speech, thought and conscience. He illustrates his case with telling examples from the Australian experience. You can read it here. It's well worth reading.
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If "incitement to religious hatred" becomes a crime, then wouldn't it be a crime to say that Al Qaeda's interpretation of Islam is a vicious, murderous doctrine?
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|"Uncanny X-Men" #514 on sale August 12
When a new writer comes aboard a long-running comic book title, they are faced with several challenges. They have to find ways to make the old seem new; they have to bring change, but make things feel the same; and hopefully they are able to find ways for their unique âvoiceâ to shine through pre-established characters and tropes of the title.
Well, if the mail we received for this weekâs X-POSITION is any indication, Matt Fraction has succeeded in all these arenas with Marvel's âUncanny X-Men.â
Fraction has moved the team to a new setting, changed their status within the Marvel Universe, brought characters back from the dead, had team members travel through time, and still retained the elements of his writing that makes things⦠Fraction-istic!
The writer joins CBR today to answer your questions about âUncanny X-Menâ and âDark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia.â Are you ready to rumble?
CBR: When Fraction speaks, Masterkev listens â closely, apparently. Therefore, he has a question about something recently saidâ¦
You recently stated at HeroesCon that you had a desire/plans to use depowered mutants, specifically stating the Blob and Jubilee. If this âdesireâ has actually turned into âplans,â can you share any details about when or where we might see them? Is there a chance weâll see any of the other new New Warriors?
MATT FRACTION: Let's see... the storyline that follows âUtopiaâ â which will either be called âOne Thingâ or will have a title that spoils where we're going over the next seven weeks (and either way, until we're locked in, mum's the word) â will be where we check in with lots of folks all up and down the spectrum. The exact whoâs and whenâs are still coming together and, really, I wouldn't tell you either way because why blow the surprise? Anyway when the dust settles on âUtopia,â when âExodusâ is out and âThe Listâ has been released, that's when to keep your eyes peeled.
|"Uncanny X-Men" #514 pencils by Terry Dodson
Washout was wondering if they should keep their eyes peeled for one of their favorite characters as well.
Now that we know the new direction âX-Men: Legacyâ will be taking, will we be seeing Rogue appearing in the pages of âUncanny X-Menâ anytime soon?
Soon is maybe relative, but yeah, hopefully. Somewhere where "soon" means some moment in time after next month but before the cosmic heat death of the universe⦠yes.
In light of your definition of âsoon,â Taimur Dar was hoping to see something, uh, relatively close to the present.
Do you plan on having Xavier stick around in âUncannyâ once Utopia concludes? Is a future confrontation with Magneto in the works now that they both have regained their powers?
Who says anyone wants him to stick around after âUtopia?â And who says he'd want to, anyway? And in a world where Professor X and Magneto were in the same place at the same time, with their powers â maybe even with new powers, who knows? â that, surely, there'd have to be some kind of showdown. I mean, you'd have to be a totally idiot not to want to write the hell out of that.
Great to see Toad appear again! I was wondering if we'll be seeing more of him again soon?
Hey, thanks! He's a classic, right? And I've got nothing concrete planned but, again, we'll be seeing all kinds of folks going forward. Maybe he'll pop upâ¦
Caleb Warren was curious how you get into such a âdarkâ mindsetâ¦
Do you approach writing the Dark Avengers the same you do with the X-Men, or do you have to go through a different thought process? They're so much more diverse in terms of personalities then the core group of X-Men that you usually writeâ¦
Hiyah, Caleb. It's a little bit different, I suppose. Osborn aside, I'd not written any of them before. It was a lot of fun, though. I'd been chomping at the bit to get my hands on Bullseye, Venom, and Ares for a long time.
|"Uncanny X-Men" #514 pencils by Terry Dodson
Oh wait! Ares had a one-panel appearance in âThe Orderâ #1.
But yeah. It's like having a great meal at a restaurant too far away to be a convenient place to eat. And it made me jealous of Bendis! They're all so much fun. And so vile...
Speaking of vile characters, Marc Ravens wanted to see more of some particularly nasty fellows.
Now that some of the Acolytes have moved to San Francisco, will they make their presence felt in âUncannyâ anytime soon?
Man. What if Magneto came back, too? I bet that'd really be a thing.
Gavin J. is a thinker, and heâs sent in a few heady thoughts.
I'm wondering how the press and the other X-Men are going to react to Cyclops's use of X-Force as his personal wetworks squad, if/when this secret comes out. Doesn't the fact that X-Force exists confirm the fears of some of these wingnut extremists they've been sent after? Are we going to see more directly how various members of the team react to this? Who do you think would be for or against Scottâs decision?
Hello, Gavin. Yeah, man, so am I. Keep reading. Especially âX-Men/Dark Avengersâ and âX-Force,â obviously. The pot of water is starting to boil beneath the white-hot flames of crisis and truth and... and any more than that and I'd be letting you know who was actually in the pot.
("White-hot flames of crisis and truth?" Good lord. I can't believe I actually typed that. Now I'm being told I actually have to turn my writer card in at the door when I'm done with this Q&A...)
But before all that, here's a hint: Beast's conversation with Scott and Emma at the end of âUncannyâ #511 is like the loose thread on a sweater.
Given the recent analogy of Proposition 8 in California and the similarly restrictive Proposition X, do you feel that the story being told in âUncannyâ adequately frames the realities of minority social politics?
This was a coincidental analogy, I just want to say â we had already started telling our tale before we'd become aware of the loathsome Prop. 8 (and I'm not speaking of myself in the royal "we," but rather by âwe,â I mean Ed Brubaker and myself â Trask and the Coalition came from the two of us in one form or fashion I don't remember any more).
|"Uncanny X-Men" #513 on sale this week
I don't know why that was important for me to say, but it was. Maybe because Prop. 8 is actual honest-to-god hate legislation that's keeping real, live, and loving people apart and we're a little piece of comic book entertainment? I don't know. I'm struck by the coincidence, but it's not meant to be a straightforward one-to-one allegory.
For my money, what Stan and Jack created with âThe X-Menâ is the perfect metaphor book. If you've ever been discriminated against, picked on, ridiculed, or rejected because of who you were or what you did, you can maybe see a little of yourself here. I think the X-Men â the whole line, the whole idea, not just my little piece of the pie â works as a kind of allegory-of-the-discriminated. I think that's why the line endures. At best, we're a small reflective facet of a very complicated jewel.
Does this story adequately frame the realities of minority social politics? I think that's impossible, because we're a comic book. Meanwhile, real people with real lives and real love are being really discriminated against and treated like less than citizens â like they are less than human, even. Any time any of our brothers or sisters are treated like less than yourself, the founding fathers and the framers of our Constitution turn in their graves.
The Northstar and Dazzler moments of late have been both amusing and noteworthy. Did you have any problems figuring a way into Northstar's character before putting him to such impressive use? Are there any things you want to do with the character now that you've brought him onboard?
I just liked the idea of Northstar as a super-powered Shaun White. And, literally, very much like we're told Cyclops did, I saw a real need for his power-set while writing the arc previous as I realized the team lacked groundspeed. I definitely have a need for him and have plans for him in year two.
Beyond that... I just thought it was time we started treating â and writing â characters like Northstar like real people in our comics. There's nothing about who he is that is a frivolous choice; his identity is as predetermined as his hair color. And every other time "it" has come up in the comics of yesteryear, "it" has tended to be handled with as much grace and tact and deftness as an Afterschool Special. It's the twenty-first century. It's time we freed our minds a little bit and treated "them" the same way we want to be treated.
I'm speaking, of course, about French-Canadians.
Why don't the X-Men have a PR staff and a legal team in place for situations like this? It seems like Trask and Humanity Now! can always outmaneuver the X-Men because they're working within the ânon-superheroicâ arena of the law. No matter how much one would like, one can't optic blast legislation away. Shouldn't the X-Men be playing this angle and looking into high-powered legal teams as well?
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I think we're slowly creeping towards that kind of stuff in the periphery. Mayor Sinclair isn't going away and...well, they're gonna need it with where we're going, post XVDA. That said, the two-fisted adventures of a canny PR staff and a break-all-the-rules legal team might not make for the most scintillating comics...I mean, I'd read it, but you know how that goes.
And isn't...like, wasn't Dazzler a lawyer, too, before she was a pop star and a superhero? There's your new Dazzler book: lawyer/glamazon pop idol/X-girl. Throw in a talking animal sidekick and a love triangle with a scrappy paralegal and a strong-chinned but small-hearted has-it-all boss and you've got next year's fan-favorite title.
See? Thereâs a Fraction-istic idea right there!
L. Petrovna is a very inclusive person and wants to make sure the âotherâ mutants out there arenât overlooked.
If Cyclopsâ call went to every mutant in the world, would it also have affected characters like Typhoid Mary and The Winter Guard? It'd be interesting to see the negative reaction some of the mutants might've had to his callingâ¦
Heyah. I agree!
Could you explain the scene in âUncanny X-Menâ #511 where Jean Grey appeared to speak to Emma Frost? What exactly was happening in that scene? I was a little confused by itâ¦
What? Jean Grey is dead. How could she speak to Emma?
It seems Slewo was also a tad disoriented by that scene. Iâm betting a bit more clarification would be greatly appreciatedâ¦
|Pages from "Uncanny X-Men" #513
In the end, what exactly was the Red Queen? A psychic ghost or what? It didnât feel entirely clear to me.
Yeah, she was just exactly what Cyclops said. The Red Queen was a psychic ghost â the "Goblin Queen" energy without a physical home. Not Maddie â she's dead â but a devil's echo of what Maddie used to be. And the only home that could contain that echo was the body a powerful psychic. So they did a test run with Psylocke to make sure it worked and then, convinced it did, went looking for Jean's body.
Are we going to see Cyclops visit his brothers soon? Given what's happening in âWar of Kings,â itâs a bit odd that Cyclops hasnât made an attempt to save them.
Hey, the man has his hands full! And they can take care of themselves. Scott's trying to save the whole mutant species...
Also what was your thinking behind bringing back Psylocke's original body, only to fry it and put her back in her second one? Nothing against âAsian Psylocke,â I'm just curiousâ¦
To be brutally honest? I saw more value in bringing a character of color into the book than yet another white face. When I came in there were a whole lot of dudes and a whole lot of white folk around; I wanted very much to diversify the genders and the colors of the team somewhat without turning the thing into a Benetton ad or the cast of âVoyagerâ or whatever. I figured, since we were already asking people to buy a story in which a magic, bodiless psychic spirit performed a grand act of transdimensional psychic necromancy, that your suspension of disbelief had either long ago shattered or was impervious to anything I could throw at it...so why not?
Besides, going forward with Psylocke, we'll see that while she might look the same on the outside, inside is a different matter...
That concludes this weekâs frolicking fun, but weâll be back in seven days to talk about big guns and cute kiddies with âCableâ writer Duane Swierczynski. Read up, write up, and send me those questions just as soon as you can. And if you throw an âX-Positionâ in the subject line, I might even give you a cute nickname on the CBR forums. Hurry and send those emails now!


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|Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States
|Nu metal,[1] heavy metal, alternative metal
|Years active
|TVT, Eclipse, Megaforce
|Shaun McCoy
Marty McCoy
Dave Tipple
Jymmy Toland
Tommy Johnson
|Past members
|Chris Grogan
Drebbit (Chris Drummond)
Mike Steele
Lutz (Aaron Lutz)
Ronnie Casto
Jerod Mankin
Bobaflex (bō-bŭ-flĕx) is a band from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States. They were part of Gigantour in 2005 and Rock on the Range in 2008 and 2012.
Formed in the 1990s, the band has released six full-length albums and one six-track EP, and is featured on the Gigantour DVD/CD. The band released the six-song EP, Chemical Valley which was released on 7 March 2010, and a 15 track full-length album Hell in my Heart which was released on February 4, 2011. The unique thing about the band is the two frontmen, brothers Shaun and Marty McCoy, who trade guitar and lead vocals, depending on the song.
Bobaflex was established in 1998 by the McCoys. The idea for Bobaflex happened in 1997 when Shaun, Lutz and Drebbit met at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. The brothers were no strangers to the press, having ancestral ties to the most infamous family feud in American history, between the Hatfields and the McCoys which almost caused a war between the states of West Virginia and Kentucky in the 1880s.
Shaun said in an interview that the band's name was inspired by the bounty hunter Boba Fett from Star Wars.
Continuously co-headlining Ohio's largest independent rock festival Woodshock three years in a row, the band performed for crowds of over 5,000.
After playing out of state for months at a time, the band returned to West Virginia to find itself booked on 106.3-FM's X-Fest, West Virginia's largest Rock festival, sponsored by Huntington's largest commercial rock radio station, WAMX).
Performing to an audience of 12,000 and sharing the stage with Nickelback, Disturbed and many others, Bobaflex played there three years in a row, thus landing a spot on the renowned Locobazooka tour in 2002 playing with Filter, Sevendust, and Mushroomhead just to name a few.
With its first label gone bankrupt shortly after signing them, Bobaflex spent the next few years engaged in legal battles, cost, turmoil and expenses. Some of the band members called their E 350 Ford van home for a short time. They lost all rights to their songs and even the band name, but eventually got them all back.[2]
In 2002, Bobaflex's cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" was a worldwide success.
The band continued to hit the road throughout 2002, independently booking tour dates through more than 13 states.
Primitive Epic sold all 1,000 copies of the initial pressing in its first four weeks strictly through live performances, word of mouth, and mail order, which quickly caught the attention of New Jersey's Eclipse Records.
Bobaflex began selling Chemical Valley EP at a concert at the V-Club in Hutington, West Virginia on February 19, 2010. The six-track EP was only available at concerts but in April 2010 the band started selling the EP on Amazon.com. The EP features tracks from their upcoming full-length record which is due later in the year. On May 28, Bobaflex was on Blazor and Mo in the Morning. Shaun has said that people should buy the EP because the songs might not be on the full album due to label issues.
The band released the full-length album Hell in my Heart on February 4, 2011, at the V-Club in Huntington, West Virginia. The Album contains four remastered tracks from the Chemical Valley EP, as well as an updated version of the song "Slave", a live recording of the song "Pretty Razors" (previously available only as an iTunes Store exclusive from Tales from Dirt Town), and nine previously unreleased tracks. It also features a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence" which has been well received by audiences and has received airplay on Satellite Radio, as well as many radio stations across the country.[3]
Charlatan's Web' was released on September 10, 2013, and the first single, "Bad Man" was released to the iTunes Store.[4] Long-time bassist Jerod Mankin announced his departure from the band on July 26, 2014, releasing a statement on the band's Facebook page stating that their upcoming west coast tour would be his final with the group.
The band toured and played regionally on the success of "Charlatan's Web", and released videos for, "Bad Man", "Never Coming Back", "I'm Glad You're Dead", and "Losing My Mind", the latter of which was the band's first animated music video. "Never Coming Back" was the band's first video with former Roxy Mae bassist, Jymmy Tolland, who joined after Mankin's departure in late-2014.
In 2015, the band entered the studio and is preparing to release a new full-length album, Anything That Moves.
In early 2016, the ensemble plans to travel the southern, southeastern and Midwestern United States along with Bridge to Grace, The Veer Union and Artifas.[5]
Record labels[edit]
On March 10, 2001, Bobaflex signed with Eclipse and went back into the studio to record.
On July 28, Eclipse officially released the band to TVT Records. For more information, check out TVT's website.
In 2009 TVT filed for bankruptcy. Bobaflex got all rights to their songs back and are searching for a new record label.
In 2011, Bobaflex announced that it would be releasing Hell in My Heart through BFX Records/Megaforce.[6][better source needed]
- Shaun McCoy (vocals, guitar)
- Marty McCoy (vocals, guitar)
- Dave Tipple (guitar, back up vocals)
- Tommy Johnson (drums)
- Jymmy Tolland (bass)
Former members[edit]
- Jerod Mankin (bass, back up vocals)
- John Hoskins (guitar, back up vocals)
- Chris Grogan (guitar, back up vocals)
- Lutz (Aaron Lutz) (vocals)
- Mike Steele (guitar, back up vocals)
- Drebbit (Chris Drummond) (vocals)
- Ronnie Casto (drums)
Studio albums[edit]
|Release date
|Primitive Epic
|August 19, 2003
|Enhanced CD
|Eclipse Records
|Apologize for Nothing
|August 2, 2005
|TVT Records
|Tales From Dirt Town
|October 30, 2007
|TVT Records
|Hell in My Heart
|August 30, 2011
|BFX Records/Megaforce Records
|Charlatan's Web
|September 10, 2013
|BFX Records
|Anything That Moves
|July 17, 2015
|#17 Heatseekers Albums
|BFX Records
Extended plays[edit]
|Release date
|Chemical Valley EP
|BFX Records
|Release date
|"Tears Drip"
|Primitive Epic
|Enhanced CD
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''The population when I arrived here was 4000, tourist season
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''We had two-hour lunchtimes in the only cafe, retired to one
of the three pubs - there are now 100 - about 4pm and drove
home at 10.15pm.
''There were about 200,000 tourists, most arrived by bus and
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''The most exciting thing you could do was the Shotover Jet;
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Progress since then had been largely driven by global events,
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America's Cup- Oracle Racing to continue AC45 racing in San Francisco
by Sail-World on 9 Jun 2011
Oracle Racing will continue two-boat testing and in-house racing in San Francisco ahead of the first ACWS event in Cascais ACEA - Photo Gilles Martin-Raget ©
America's Cup Race Management (ACRM) will conduct testing sessions on San Francisco Bay beginning on Monday June 13th, ahead of the first America's Cup World Series event in Cascais in August.
Oracle Racing will participate in the sessions with two AC45 wing-sailed catamarans - the same boats the Cup teams will be racing over the next two years in the AC World Series.
Earlier this month it was resolved that the AC45 class would be used right through the 13 event America's Cup World Series, in the build up to the 34th America's Cup to be sailed in San Francisco in September 2013. This marks the first time America's Cup style racing will take place on the Bay since San Francisco was named host city for the 34th America's Cup.
The San Francisco testing sessions mark a continuation of initial training that took place in Auckland last month. Principal Race Officer John Craig and his team will test new systems and race course configurations.
'We learned a great deal about the AC45s when we were in Auckland,' Craig said. 'This month, our focus will be on the systems and technology that our race management team will use to provide the best possible race experience, for the competitors and spectators alike.'
The training sessions will take place on San Francisco Bay from Monday to Friday in the afternoon the week of June 13. There will be no AC45 sailing on the weekend.
The AC45 is the official boat of the America's Cup World Series, and the forerunner to the AC72, the boat that will now be only sailed in the Louis Vuitton Cup and the America's Cup Finals in 2013.
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Skip to comments.Pledge 'under God' uproar dividing Estes residents, recall election date to be set for trustee
Posted on 12/09/2004 12:52:41 AM PST by ajolympian2004
In Estes Park, there's discomfort on all political sides that the flap over a town trustee's refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance is redefining the community.
"Estes Park is becoming known as a town that wants to recall someone instead of as a tourist attraction," said Linda Wagner, a 12-year resident.
Trustee Lori Jeffrey-Clark succeeded in making the pledge part of meetings in May.
In September, Trustee David Habecker said he would stay silently seated during the pledge because the founding fathers wanted to separate church and state.
The pledge was written in 1892, but the words "under God" weren't added until 1954 during Sen. Joe McCarthy's witch hunt for godless communists, Habecker said.
Richard Clark, Jeffrey-Clark's husband, started a drive in November to recall Habecker and gathered enough signatures for a special election.
A date for the recall election will be set Tuesday.
Life in Estes Park is usually harmonious. In winter, there are few tourists and many of the summer residents have gone. Many businesses close.
Folks catch up on bookkeeping, chores and friendships and get ready for the holidays.
Not this year.
There's talk of business boycotts, secret agendas and grudges.
"It's gathered a lot of attention," said Lisa Pogue, news editor at the Estes Park Trail Gazette. "We get an abundance of letters on the issue every week."
Norm Pritchard helped gather signatures for the recall because he didn't think a public official should use dramatics to air a personal view.
But he agrees with Habecker on one issue - the rising political power of conservative Christians is troubling.
"Any fanatically religious group scares me, especially as a voting block," said Pritchard, who owns a bed and breakfast lodge.
And, when he was gathering signatures, Pritchard said many of the residents who signed did so for what he considers the wrong reasons.
"They thought it was unpatriotic," said Pritchard, who believes Habecker has a constitutional right to free speech but is going about it in the wrong way. "(Some petition signers) don't give a damn about constitutional rights."
The authors of the Constitution intentionally kept God out of the document and guaranteed the right to free speech.
In fact, the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, minister Francis Bellamy, presumably would have not wanted God in the oath, said Lief Carter, a professor at Colorado College.
"He supported a separation of church and state," said Carter, who has a law degree from Harvard and a doctorate in political science.
"He didn't want us to think of this as a country under God in the same way that Osama bin Laden thinks that what he does is the will of God," said Carter.
Wagner is voting against the recall because, "there's nothing more American than protesting." But she wishes the conflict would go away.
"It's almost depressing that our town is focusing on this, and the real business that we need to focus on - such as parking and the environment - is being ignored," she said.
You know, I could possibly see not voting for this guy again because of this, but does sitting down during the pledge for religious really justify the expense of a recall and subsequent special election?
I'm really glad to see that parking and the environment are equally weighty issues in Estes.
...maybe 'under allah' would work better for them...
The silent majority is wide awake in America. Red states will become redder and some of the blues will be flipped in the next election in 2008. The backlash against those like the ACLU who want remove 'God' from public view and thought has really just begun, in my humble opinion of course.
If he chose simply not to speak, I would suggest tolerance.
When an elected representative turns his back on the flag, IT'S TIME TO GO!
If only you were really talking about red and blue, but you're not, you're actually talking about religion. Maybe I shouldn't, but I have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake, even if metaphorically.
Obviously this guy Carter, while getting his Harvard Law Degree and his PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) in Political Science, failed to notice that the term "...separation of church and state..." occurs NOWHERE in the founding documents of this nation.
I'm talking about people like myself who will be voting for candidates based on our beliefs and the long held traditions of our great country. Take my sister's church in Orlando for example... all 1200+ eligible voters in their membership all turned out to the polls and voted early for President Bush.
If Christians becoming even more politcally active and speaking up for our beliefs sounds vindictive it's too bad from my perspective.
This is about making a stand againist the left who preach tolerance, but their actions are based on intolerance.
I am fired up more than ever! A passionate conservative Christian is more powerful than any liberal can ever imagine.
I hope the rats continue to protest, and loudly proclaim their Godless American hating elitist liberalism. Then I hope they continue to whine when the voters proclaim that those who would represent the people must represent the people.
smug idiots need to learn some more history instead of parroting secular extremist talking points
It's all good until the Federal Government gets involved.
The biggest problem we have in this country is that the Federal Courts get involved in these local disputes.
The 1st Amendment says: Congress shall make no law respecting religion or the free exercise thereof.
Then the more recent equal rights amendment militated against the first amendment. Now the communities are required by the judiciary to make laws so that local communities have to follow a certain religious script. The 'equal rights under the law' is construed to require these communities to grant people the right to not be offended.
And that is the situation in which we find ourselves. The misuse of the ERA, the tinkering with the constitution has caused a tyranny to erupt from the federal government which we will not be able to control without the christians of this country rising up to take the government back from the atheists. That way we can bring back the tolerance.
Now when I say 'bring back the tolerance' I mean that we need to return control of the communities back to the communities. Give the states control of the states and reduce the power of the federal government to control behaviors. Along the same lines, I am pleased to see that many states are having to raise their local taxes. This local effect will effect changes into the government as the populations vote out the wasteful politicians for more efficient people. This is the efficiency of the local community to manage their own expenses and affairs.
So with respect to this 'person' who wants to turn his back on the flag and misuse his office in order to make political statements, if the local community wants to vote him out then let it be so. If that local community wishes to establish Christianity as their religion of choice then that is okay too. If that local community wants to establish islam as their religion of choice that is their choice. The federal Courts MUST NOT get involved in that choice. And where a person does not feel 'comfortable' or 'welcomed' in a community, there are other communities for him to go to. Or perhaps that person can establish himself in that community without the help of the federal government, perhaps that person can be tolerant and respectful of the community. Perhaps that community requires a lesson in tolerance. That lesson cannot be taught by Judicial Fiat!
The federal courts might get involved in the MOST AGGREGIOUS cases of outright bigotry, crossburnings and lynch mobs. But to the extent the Feds are active today they have become the problem.
It's all good until the feds get involved.
There's something off-putting about someone in public office who doesn't respect American values. If he wants to be seated, fine but not at taxpayers' expense. The Left has for too long acted like they can do as they please but the public has to follow their dictates. I'm sick and tired of the hypocrisy.
Whether you are religious or chose not to be, your liberty is still vested in one nation under god. Nobody is asking anyone to be religious....that is a separate and private matter we respect, because we respect the freedom of the individual. It seems perfectly clear to me.
If he does not respect American values he should not hold public office in America. The public has a right to expect that the people elected ARE true Americans. If he deceived the voters, they have the right to remove him. Since he is a fraud having misled the voters, he should be required to repay his allowance.
No, it's clarifying the community's values. The so-called "trustee" is correctly seen as a trouble-maker. He does not have to be religious to pledge allegiance.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. And you'd be ok with penalties for not sharing in the community relgion? Sorry, not on board, won't come on board, not my party.
In your opinion, is not believing in gods somehow a slap in the face to American values?
Yeah, I'm afraid in this day and age, it does. He could just mumble the words "under God", but he needs to say the pledge.
What penalties? Did I say 'penalties' anywhere?
And what gives you the right to dictate how a community of amish people will live their lives? What gives me the right to tell the city of Los Angeles that they must remove the cross from their city seal? If the ACLU decides that all religion must be expunged from the public square, I guarantee it will use the federal government to enforce that tyranny.
We MUST return control of the local communities to the local communities. We MUST return control of the states to the states. Those right not SPECIFICALLY enumerated within the constitution must be granted to the States and the Individual respectively. Specifically does not mean 'prenumberances' either.
A passionate conservative Christian is more powerful than any liberal can ever imagine.
Amen to that and I'm fired up also as many of us are and proved it in this election. They are really going too far by trying to get rid of Christmas.
But if you repeat a LIE long enough and often enough it becomes accepted fact.
Francis Bellamy was a socialist nutjob obsessed with preventing another attempt at secession: one nation, indivisible...It's like he's rubbing the South's face in it. Is the "indivisibility" of our "one" nation anywhere in the Constitution? Are any states currently trying to split? It's as relevant as a pledge that insists on our autonomy from Britain.
I think the difference is that we are pledging our allegiance to our country that believes in liberty and justice for all...
... versus in North Korea, Cuba, Iran, China and others where you are pledging to the person whose picture is posted anywhere you might look throughout the country.
Which fears have no basis in historical or present reality.
Your neighbors whom you apparantly fear are the most kindly and tolerant people in the history of humankind.
ROFL, serves the goober right. He could have just skipped the part he didn't like. Sitting for the PoA just shows he's and anti-Amercian Clymer.
I think you're overstating the problem just a little bit.
The culture war rages on...
Yo - dipwad, James Madison authored the Constitution. And FYI, Thomas Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence (where God is referenced).
And jacka$$, explain this if 'God' is NOT in the Constitution:
Now if not God, exactly whom were 'we' asking to secure "blessings", huh?!? The frigging King of Siam?!?
PreambleWe the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Conservative Christians are fanatics?
YAY! I've made the big time!! I'm a fanatic!!
Maybe I shouldn't, but I have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake
reads a lot differently than:
If only you were really talking about red and blue, but you're not, you're actually talking about religion. Maybe I shouldn't, but I have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake, even if metaphorically.
That last clause is essential in underlining that I'm not really talking about being burned at the stake. Without it, I sound like a rambling nutbar who's afraid the good christians are going to come kill me, not merely marginalize or censure me.
It's time also if he remains seated.
He is presumably capable of standing and placing his right hand over his heart. He is not forced to do this; neither is he forced to be a public official paid by the public
Well, obviously, I have no right personally. However, as a greater society we have a great deal to say about how the Amish live their lives. Ask the Mormons about sticky religious practices that were proscribed across the country.
We MUST return control of the local communities to the local communities. We MUST return control of the states to the states. Those right not SPECIFICALLY enumerated within the constitution must be granted to the States and the Individual respectively. Specifically does not mean 'prenumberances' either.
I've had this argument with many, many a Southern type, and the answer remains the same: There is no going back. For good or for bad, state citizenship means little in the 21st century. In the early 20th century, according to the census's then, most people still died within 50 miles of their birth. Today, chances are you'll live in at least 3 states in your lifetime.
You can argue the philosphy back and forth until the cows come home, but that won't do a damned thing to turn back the clock and erode the growing national citizenship at the expense of a diminished state citizenship. IBM, Oil companies, the military, et al will still continue to move their people to and fro. The population of many states will continue to include more out of staters (and even foreign born) that natives. It's just a fact of modern day life.
That last clause is essential in underlining that I'm not really talking about being burned at the stake. Without it, I sound like a rambling nutbar who's afraid the good christians are going to come kill me, not merely marginalize or censure me.
If the community decides on a set of morals and you do not live up to those morals then you should be marginalized and/or censured. This is not the same as being burned at the stake by any stretch of the imagination.
The point that was made is that the local community should have control over the local community. There is no constitutional prohibition against a local community enforcing Christianity (or any other religion)
no one said anything about state citizenship. The point was that States should control what happens in those states
If you think the Christian people of this blessed nation are coming to marginalize or censure you, you ARE a rambling nutbar.
See reply #38.
Doesn't it help that I said it with a smile? ;)
That's perhaps the most unamerican idea I've ever read on Free Republic. Now it's ok to "enforce" religious observance. So much for the supposedly unalienable right of a man to hold his own conscience eh?
' have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake, even if metaphorically.'
Geez, can you be a bigger drama queen or pansy?
Ever since the election I'm seeing more of a backlash against the ACLU more.. It seems that that ACLU does not get the message.
Read the constitution. Not only is it an American idea for locals to control their own communities but it is a constitutionally protected idea. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF..."
Please, please, please live in Texas.
Prohibiting the free exercise of, which you chose to highlight has nothing whatsoever with coercing belief. That's not belief pal.
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Reliance Community Club members presented two performances of the play "Bulldog Saves the Day" Friday and Saturday evening at the Legion Hall in Reliance. The annual dinner/theater production is the club's major fund raiser. Standing in the back row; l-r: Chris Eymer, Bo Hamiel, and David Reis. Front row, seated l-r: Danny Elwood, Sherry Lulf, Jessica Hyde, Heidi Reis, and Leslie Reuer. The club performs community service activities and projects in the town of Reliance.
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Court records show Michelle Canipe filed the suit May 9th.
According to court documents, Canipe began working in the library as an instructional librarian in January 2010. She alleges Bearman harassed colleagues. In one instance, she says he introduced her to a practicing Muslim, calling him a "terrorist." She alleges Bearman also once punched the man in the head.
Canipe also alleges Bearman touched or readjusted himself very frequently without an attempt to mask the gesture.
The lawsuit is seeking at least $75,000 damages on each of five different counts.