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The Mankato Free Press
---- — My Sept. 8 article addressed Dr. Shores mislabeling the Independent Payment Advisory Board. In his of Sept. 13 article Dr. Shores expanded on the charge of the IPAB, and also addressed the right v. privilege question as it relates to health care.
In his of Sept. 12 letter John Hurd correctly points out "...a hospital can not turn someone away at the ER...". In an emergency situation a patient is entitled to treatment regardless of ability to pay. That creates a "legal right" for a few under specific circumstances. But to expand on why I contend health care is still a privilege for the rest of us, consider this non-proportional metaphor.
Health care consists of goods and services. A dinner at a favorite restaurant consists of goods and services. If we want the privilege of receiving either, or any goods and services, we must pay for them ourselves or find someone else to pay for them.
I think presently everyone has access to health care. Either through personal financial responsibility, health insurance, or charity. Those in poverty are eligible for Medicaid, which is managed by their state of residence. About 90 percent of Americans have health insurance now. That will probably not increase under the ACA. It might decrease.
Personally I have never "...opposed any health care reform..." To the contrary, I think some reform is necessary. Dr. Shores probably has some "conservative" clients who agree some reform is necessary.
Setting aside ACA issues discussed herein and in previous articles, it seems to me the essential difference between proponents and opponents of the ACA is philosophical, i.e. superfluous federal government involvement.
Bob Jentges
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By Rick Dandes
The Daily Item
SUNBURY - Officials with PPL say that all Valley electric customers may have power restored by the end of the day today.
In the Central Susquehanna Valley, fewer than 300 electric customers remained without power this morning. That is down from 2,000 on Wednesday and the more than 6,000 homes and businesses in the region that were without power immediately after the hurricane roared through the region.
The utility has restored power to nearly 250,000 customers, and virtually all of the more than 66,000 affected customers in the utility's Harrisburg and Lancaster regions have had power restored. About 166,547 customers remain out of service.
"We continue to make progress, and the more than 5,000 people supporting the restoration effort — including more than 3,000 workers in the field — have started to turn the tide," said Dave Bonenberger, vice president of Distribution Operations for PPL Electric Utilities.
"It is time-consuming, labor-intensive work. We're working around the clock and as hard as we can to get the lights back for everyone as soon as humanly possible. We still expect to have 80 to 85 percent of affected customers back in service by Friday night."
Utility workers from at least 10 different states, including PPL Electric Utilities' sister utilities in Kentucky, are supporting storm damage restoration.
The eastern part of the company's service territory, which includes parts of Bucks and Montgomery counties, the Lehigh Valley and north into northeast Pennsylvania, should have customers restored by 11 p.m. Sunday.

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A 20-year-old Indiana man is facing two counts of child molestation for allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old girl after his girlfriend dared him to.
Cody Blankenship denies he ever had sex with the girl, but that once when he was playing truth or dare with his 16-year-old girlfriend and her 12-year-old cousin, his girlfriend dared him to have sex with the younger girl.
His girlfriend's parents dispute that, saying that their daughter is traumatized and never dared Blankenship do anything of the sort.
They say that back in January they found condoms in the bedroom their daughter shares with her cousin, and the 12-year-old eventually admitted to having had sex with Blankenship.
"She didn't want to admit it, but after awhile she had come clean and said things had been happening and that Cody had snuck in her bedroom three different times. There's stains on the mattress, I mean, it was really, really bad," one parent said.
Police say Blankenship had sex with the 12-year-old on at least two occasions, a claim he vehemently denies.
Blankenship's father is sticking by his son and says he doesn't believe the accusations.
"I know my son wouldn't do anything. I have no doubt whatsoever. My son would never do nothing like that," he told reporters.


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Servings: 4 servings
Prep Time: 5 min
Cook Time: 15 min
Difficulty: Easy
2 cup chicken broth, or more for thinning
1 head broccoli, cut into florets and steamed
1/2 cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper
Place steamed broccoli in a blender and blend until pureed. Transfer puree to a pot and add chicken broth and heavy cream. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
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OMG I made the broccoli soup, my grandson (age 7) looked at me crazy when I put the broccoli in but he loved it, He likes to cook with me and this was fun Thanks alot Sassylou
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love watching you and your sons really enjoy your recepies i am a new widow lost my husband of 43 wonderful years but still cook for others
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I am watching you on the Hallmark station right now and am thrilled to see you and your boys ,and Paula, your hubby;Looking good there gang. I actually came to your site to find a turkey soup recipe. I have my grand mother's and it's great but just wanted to see what you might add. I was surprised to see the best looking squash and carrot soup recipes. Can't wait to try them this week. Guess I'll stick to " grammies " turkey soup.. God bless you this new year and may our Lord continue to show His joy through you. In Christ, Pam
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I don't know how this was rated a 5. This soup was no good. I would not recommend trying this one. I went back to my old soup recipe.
By Anonymous on January 28, 2010
This recipe is delicious! I added some cheese and pieces of steamed broccoli also. It was superb! Thank you Paula for such wonderful recipes!!! Peggy C., Douglasville, GA
By Anonymous on December 12, 2009
This is so quick and easy! I didn't read the recipe closely and put everything in the blender. I don't think it made any difference. I topped each bowl of soup with some sharp cheddar cheese and a few croutons. My family loved it.
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Use fat free cream or fat free half and half for lovely flavor without the fat.
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One of the great fascinations of the marijuana debate is the degree of puritanism we seem to expect from the pro-pot camp. They're supposed to speak in detached, paternalistic tones about why "someone" or "people" or (better yet) "kids" shouldn't be thrown in jail for smoking a bit of weed. Justin Trudeau committed that most untoward breach of modern political etiquette by telling the Huffington Post he smoked pot: self-interestedly advocating the change of a law that he personally breaks. Optically speaking, that doesn't look good. And as we all know, when it comes to Justin, good looks matter.
On Thursday Justin Trudeau admitted to smoking marijuana while serving as a member of the Parliament of Canada and, for the most part, Canada gave a collective shrug. It has, after all, been more than 20 years since Bill Clinton "didn't inhale" and Woodstock was almost 45 years ago. Admitting to smoking marijuana cost Justin Trudeau nothing. The only people likely to be upset or offended by it are people who were unlikely to vote for the Liberals anyway. He may have actually gained some support.


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Former Palm Desert resident Jodi Arias was continuing to give testimony Monday in a graphic murder trial in Arizona.
Last week on the witness stand in Maricopa County Superior Court, Arias, 32, described how her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, made her submit to sodomy and treated her as if she didn't exist outside the bedroom, according to news reports.
Arias has admitted killing Alexander, according to law enforcement and prosecutors.
Court observers Monday were expecting that a phone-sex recording between Arias and Alexander will be played for a jury, the Desert Sun reported.
"But in a closed hearing Thursday, lawyers for the defense and the prosecution argued over whether Arias, who was in attendance, should be allowed to testify that she walked in on Alexander while he was masturbating to photographs of young boys," the Palm Springs newspaper reported Monday on its website.
Arias has been on trial since Jan. 2, and she is charged with first-degree murder in Alexander's death, according to the Desert Sun.
In June 2008, Alexander, 30, was found dead in the shower of his Mesa, Ariz., home. He had been shot in the head, stabbed 27 times, and his throat was slit, according to law enforcement and prosecutors.
Arias and Alexander met in Las Vegas while Arias was living in Palm Desert, according to news accounts. If convicted of first-degree murder, Arias could face the death penalty, according to prosecutors.
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Television trucks and vans crowded a Rocky Neck parking lot Thursday morning, leaving people wondering if another movie was in the making here on Cape Ann.
The rumors are true. Actor, comedian and producer Larry David, along with his film crew, have been shooting scenes for David's HBO movie "Clear History" in Gloucester over the past week. And, though the crew's weekend location could not be confirmed, the shoot will continue in Essex at J.T. Farnham's Seafood on Eastern Avenue next week, with the crew setting up Tuesday then filming Wednesday and Thursday, according to Farnham's owner Terry Cellucci.
In the film, David plays a former marketing executive, feuding with and seeking revenge on a former boss. David's character in the movie has stepped away from his job at a start-up electric car company after an argument with the boss. The movie's story is set on a small island off the Massachusetts coast, though much of it is being filmed here on the North Shore and on Cape Ann, according to Lisa Strout, director of the Massachusetts Film Office.
Strout said her office guided producers to Cape Ann and the North Shore because the region has the right feel for the movie and plenty of hotels and supportive communities.
"You all are in a very beautiful part of the state," Strout said. "It's wonderful that the communities up there have been really supportive. I think all of that plays into it."
Scenes have been shot at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, at a large home on Holmes Street in North Andover, and at the Topsfield Fair.
The movie stars David, and features Kate Hudson, Jon Hamm, Bill Hader, Phillip Baker Hall, Michael Keaton, Danny McBride, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan and JB Smoove. It isn't the first time Mendes has been in movie filmed on Cape Ann; she starred with Matt Damon in the Farrelly brothers' movie "Stuck on You."


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There is no shortage of nicknames that the playful Shaquille O'Neal could bestow upon Andrew Bynum, from the Big Successor to Shaq Lite to the Most Dominant Since I Retired.
O'Neal wouldn't go there. The TNT analyst adopted a more serious, highbrow tone Monday inside Staples Center when asked to assess Bynum's play this season.


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Friday, February 14, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
It's Not Me, It's You
"Kathleen," he said, half-sobbing and lunging at the door. It was just her aide.
"Janice," Al said, grabbing the frightened girl by her shoulders. "When, Janice?" he begged.
"Al, you need to calm down. She's in with The President of the United States Barack Obama and the Meeting is Very Important. They are talking about the implementation of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
"Fuck that noise, Janice. I need my Kathleen. My loins burn for her!"
"Don't 'ew' our love, Janice. You're just an aide. You don't know about love yet. Have you even had your first abortion, you silly twat?"
"You know I'm working on it, Al," Janice hissed.
"Get Kathleen out here right now or I'm going to make you watch me fuck and eat your abortion, Janice. I'll fucking split in half on my cock and tongue out the insides, Janice. You fucking know I will."
"Fuck you, Al. All you make are empty promises."
She watched as a tranq dart caught him in the neck and he dropped to the ground.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Dinosaur Porn
"But what about the hunting lands your grandfather left you in the will, my love? You will be penniless," Azog said.
"I don't care about hunting lands or my father's money. I just want to be with you. I want to keep our egg clutch safe with my defensive displays. It's only your name I want to squawk at a deafening volume every new morn." Grrgr rushed to Azog and buried his tears in the warm, tender meat of her bosom.
"Yes, Grrgr! Yes, my love! Fly me away from the small-minded people that cannot accept our love."
Grrgr tore himself away from her and walked to the roaring fireplace. "Azog. My love. My only love. I have keep a secret from you. It is so terrible I thought if it was revealed our relationship could never survive it."
Azog ran to Grrgr, her long gown sweeping the floor. She threw her arms around him, his splendid plumage tickling her desire.
"Nothing could make me leave you, Grrgr," she wailed. "Not now. Not ever!"
Grrgr pecked absently at her forearm, drawing blood. Azog was so in love she couldn't even feel it.
"Azog. I am flightless. These feathers are only for courting display," Grrgr said, hanging his head.
Azog's gasp of dismay broke his rapidly beating heart.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Is STEVE SMITH a robot? Disturbing new evidence emerges...
Thursday, September 26, 2013
All looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye
"I want to lick your every wrinkle and crevasse, Katie. I want to fill your dead womb with my hot man semen and have you shit it back into my mouth." Almanian was panting as he strained to free himself. She jammed the applicator into his anus to fit another tampon in. He sigmoid colon felt pregnant with cotton. He wanted to give ass birth to their special brown baby.
Kathleen climbed onto his chest and thrust her chewed labia into his mouth, her pubis bruising on what was left of his teeth. He choked on the grey flesh and smell of powdered violets. Her shriveled teats swayed queasily above him. He longed to squeeze them until they were smooth and ripe again. She farted wetly and it spattered into the hollow of his neck. He writhed around, jerking against his restraints. Kathleen reached back and scooped up a fingerful of shit and wrote her initials on his forehead. His eyes were wide with panic; her gunt was splayed over his nose and he couldn't breathe. She smacked him in the ear and laughed.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Grudge Match
I want to see a grudge match between these two. Yes, the Gorn is an alien being with superior strength, but Humungus is a battle-hardened post-ill-defined-apocalypse warrior with a tolerant attitude toward alternate lifestyles.
Besides the Gorn was once beaten in hand-to-hand combat by William Shatner…an admitted Canadian!
My money's on the bondage freak with the big gun.
Matt Yglesias: Forever Alone
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In case you need it
Monday, July 22, 2013
A Quick Programming Note
Monday, July 15, 2013
The Ripper Paranundrum: A Warty Hugeman Time Travel Adventure
"Where the hell is he?" Warty muttered to himself. This was the most thoroughly documented murder by Jack the Ripper and Warty meant to have him. He already had a place in the Menagerie picked out, right between Peter Kürten, The Vampire of Düsseldorf, and Jurgen Metzler, The Mad Butcher of Milwaukee. Ed Gein was once housed in the case, but Warty had gotten sick of his constant demands for salted vulvas and let him loose in Hitler's bunker, after he watched Warty take Eva Braun's anal virginity. Hitler's bunker was such a time travel cliché, Warty hoped Gein would kill some of his rivals. The Forstock twins kept going back the day before he stole Charlemagne's crown and stealing it first. He'd also seen those little bald fuckers sulking around Golgotha as well. Poseurs. He'd seen the Jew die a hundred times before they were even born, or would have been born if he hadn't kicked their mother to death. They were loose in the timestream now. If they ever returned to their place in the skein, they'd dissolve into fetal goo in seconds, erased from history. Warty had masturbated into a supervolcano on Pangea after that victory, his manly juices steaming into the primordial sky.
Warty saw movement in the alley across from his vantage point. Pressure on his right incisor activated his infrared implant. The figure that was revealed was huge, tall and broad. It stepped out into the feeble gaslight. It was himself. Warty waved himself over. He was taller and more muscular. An biomechanical webbing covered most of his face.
"What are you doing here?" Warty asked himself.
"You don't get him on the first try," himself said to he. "I'm going to make sure you do it right this time."
"What went wrong last time?"
"I distracted you, but that's not going to happen his time."
And even larger figure stepped up behind him. Warty went down in a defensive crouch as a large silvered hand dropped on Warty's shoulder.
"Yes, you do distract him," Warty said to hisselves. He was covered in a silver coating from head to toe. He looked like an enormous, monstrously sexy mannequin.
"So when should I not be distracted?" Warty asked Warty.
"In about three Earth minutes," Warty said.
"So, um, how's it going?" Warty asked.
"I can't tell you, you know that," they said, slightly out of sync like a cheap stereo.
Warty sized up the two. "Do I just keep getting bigger and bigger? Cause you are huge, dude."
"Yes," they both said.
"So I'm definitely going to get him, right? You two cancel each other out?" Warty asked the Warties.
Before they could answer, a gigantic shadow detached itself from the gloom of the alley and towered over them. "No," it said. "They both distract you when they start making out."
"Well, that's just fucking great." Warty couldn't even make out the Warty swaddled in light-swallowing black, but he could hear his breathing, rumbling like distant thunder. How much bigger can I get, he thought? A small surge of blood flooded his penis. The giant shadow laughed knowingly.
"OK, here he comes," said one of the Warties. Warty could see a lithe figure coming toward them. The familiar cape, the doctor's bag, a flash of white teeth.
"Get him!" Warty yelled. He tackled the figure and they wrestled briefly. Jack the Ripper was nothing to rippling bulk of the smallest Warty. The others cheered him on.
Warty ripped away the hood of the subdued figure. It was his face, sickly, thin and grooved with pain.
"I came back to stop you," wheezed the small Warty. "You cannot take Jack The Ripper from the timestream! Dire events unfold from this night. Dire!" He coughed feebly.
Warty stood up and brushed the Victorian filth from his elegant clothes. He backed away from the assembled Warties.
"You know what? Fuck this shit, I'm going home." He flashed out of existence as the others ran toward him.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Why Aren't There More Women Libertarians?
I propose we recruit more women who like having hot dogs thrown in their face.
Monday, July 8, 2013
The Horror in Whoresmouth
I flung the door open in defiance of my dark fate. There stood two of the most beautiful creature human eyes had ever glimpsed. Their tresses were an otherworldy blonde, like savages of the frozen north, and their teats were as bounteous as a Negro wet-nurse.
Their immodest dress made me forget the usual treacheries the weaker races indulge in and I rushed to embrace them. They held me in place with just their eyes, some terrible force emanating from their eyes, eyes a color that no human can describe.
I know you must receive missives such as this with depressing frequency, but my experiences must be known and shared with the fragile world at large. They did soil me and exact terror upon my soul and loins.
Idea for a Lovecraft letter to Penthouse from BakedPenguin
Such Pleasures
A figure appeared from the endless storm of chaos on the other side, walking slowly toward him. The far-off clanking of a million-million chains could be heard over the howling of wind coming through the portal. Barry was naked, the device encasing his erection painfully tight. He shielded his eyes from the blowing dust, holding out the box with the other hand. An offering if they demanded it, an apology if he needed it. The wizened oriental that sold him the box said it contained pleasures beyond anything the human body could withstand. And pain so delicious that the distinction between the two was meaningless.
The figure finally stepped through into our world and the rift sealed itself with a roar of shattering glass. As Berry cowered from the sound, the box was ripped from his hand. He saw her then, silver hair standing out in a shocked nimbus, wearing a suit of creaking black leather made from no Earthly beast. The hell Barry summoned was an ancient white woman, indistinct in the gloom.
"You solved the box and I have come," she intoned. She held a hand out to Barry; the flesh was slack and wrinkled. Barry's eyes adjusted enough to see that the palm was that familiar inverted V, and a swollen clitoris pulsed at the base of her thumb. He looked up and her face and neck were the same, all her exposed flesh was knotted and folded into labia of different sizes. The odor overwhelmed him, the sharp reek of two dozen exposed hell-cooters.
"Come with me," she said, her voice a thousand screams of ecstasy and terror.
"But I can't just go. I'm the President. I wanted to bring hell here. I was doing pretty well on my own, but you know how it is…"
"Silence. You opened the box. You summoned me here." She ripped open her outfit, revealing hundreds more writhing, seeping labia, and two gaping assholes in place of nipples. "Now it is time for you to know all the pleasures of the flesh."
Barry squinted in the gloom. "Kathleen? Is that you?" he asked?
"No. I am an… explorer of the farthest regions of pain and pleasure. Cabinet secretaries to some, demons to others."
"Seriously, is that you Kathleen? Because, you know, except for all the, you know, all over you look just like Kathleen." Barry's fear drained out of him and he rocked back on his heels.
"Mind if I turn on this lamp?" he asked.
"No!" she screamed, flames leaping from her glowing eyes. "I'm here to take you to hell!" Chains shot from the corners of the room and wrapped themselves around Barry like ice cold snakes.
"Neat! How'd you do that, Kathleen? Can you show me?" Barry was raised off the floor.
"You shall drown in an endless ocean of night!"
"OK, Kathy. I guess I can spare a few hours. I sure hope this night job as a demon whore isn't interfering with your other duties."
Kathleen's scream of rage stripped the flesh from his bones.
Monday, June 17, 2013
The Disappointing Cave of Neolithic Over-Intimacy: A Warty Hugeman Time Travel Adventure
Warty had gone back into the deep past for one reason: caveman pussy. At The Eternal Time-Traveler Poker Game a neo-Australian, its scarred face aglow from the enormous pile of neutronium chips on the table, had assured Warty that the only cure for the unending torment of the wounds he received at the hands of the sentient Pornships of the Ejaculate Empire would be caveman pussy, and lots of it. When Warty asked it if it meant "cavewoman pussy," a shot rang out and the neo-Australian's face exploded.
"Gonna get me some caveman pussy," Warty hummed tunelessly. He was touching himself through the impervious material of his time-travel-proofed clothing. The touch and the sensation of being touched were so removed that Warty could pretend it was Marissa touching him. But Marissa was dead. Dead everywhere and everywhen.
Warty descended on the group of cavepeople, his SmartCape billowing out behind him like a big dumb cape. He landed beside their crude and smoky fire and struck a pose that had gotten him laid in numerous time periods. Even time periods that you have never even heard of. And long before those time periods got all popular and touristy.
"I am Warty Hugeman. I am here to have sex with you," Warty's voice boomed in the quiet Stone Age night.
Three subjective days later, Warty wiped away the tears as he centered the crosshairs of his Ultrarifle on the neo-Australian's brain case. Thinking of Groocluck and Kuh, their dirt-streaked faces looking up at him pleadfully, Warty flexed his enormously over-muscled trigger finger.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Watery Shits Future-Boy: A Warty Hugeman Time Travel Adventure
The boy from the future looked at Warty blankly. He was dumbly chewing on a mouthful of future bugs that might have also come from outer space or something when Warty arrived from 2236, the most fashionable all years in all of human existence. Even more fashionable than the 2480s, when humans were beautiful floating bearopotami that wore space gowns of space silk woven by space arachnids from beyond Pluto's misshapen moon. When Warty materialized in front of him, the boy from the future had let out a stream of watery shit in his fright.
Warty backhanded the boy from the future and said, "I'm going to call you Watery Shits Future-Boy and name the future novel I will write about you in the past the same thing." The boy shit some more and ran away.
Warty returned to his underwater tomb in the past and began writing.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
snapshots make a girl look cheap
"The pistol grip," she demanded, the loose flesh of her arm bouncing with frustration. Nancy's pendulous breasts swayed like a drunk going to vomit as she rifled through the pile of gun parts from the presentation.
"Iz thish it?" she slurred, handing a part to Diane. It was a bayonet lug. "God-dammit!" Diane screamed, "Can't you fucking doing anything right?" Nancy's startled face made the perfect target; the lug caught her right above the eyebrow and it began bleeding. She blubbered for almost a mintue, blood and tears joining mascara and snot in a thick black river down her face.
"Are you finished?" Diane screamed finally and Nancy nodded miserably.
"That one," Diane pointed at a pistol grip by itself on the table. Nancy shuffled over and handed it to her. Diane ran her fingernail along the reticulated surface of the grip. "Perfect," she said. Nancy grinned idiotically, showing that blood and mascara had dyed her false teeth black.
Diane snapped her fingers again and waved at the table. "Get me a clip too. A high capacity clip just like the one that killed those kids." She gasped between words as she worked the grip between her legs.
"I thinsh they're called maguhshinzes," Nancy ventured.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
A Truth Too Monstrous To Comprehend
General Halftrack moments before he disappeared. In all subsequent daily strips, the General was played by the leader singer of a popular Beetle Bailey cover band recruited in secret. Readers never discovered the truth until it was revealed in an episode of Behind The Laughter that aired in 2015.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Best. Comic-Con. Evar.
Damn, Girl... You know I put the "Thunder" in "Thunder Lizard."
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Your Handy Guide To The SCOTUS Fuck-up On Obamacare
The Conscience of a Liberal
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Classin' Up The Joint
William Butler Yeats
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
Monday, February 6, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
"The Whole World Will Know My Name!"
Ricky, reclining nude, leaned forward and gently caught Harold's earlobe in his teeth and then began to suckle it. Harold closed his eyes and groaned. Ricky's hand ground into Harold's half-hard penis through the thick denim of his jeans. He let go of Harold's earlobe and whispered into his ear, "Harold, oh Harold. We can do whatever we want. We are adults. We can make decisions for ourselves." His breath was hot in Harold's ear, tongue moist as it darted in and out, a promise.
"Can't we just do it with our hands?" Harold pleaded. He was weakening, his protest becoming feeble as his penis grew harder. Ricky undid the button of Harold's jeans and slipped his hand inside, unzipping with his thumb as he went. The dorm room was dark, a chair pushed up under the door knob. Harold's roommate was gone for the weekend, but it was stupid to take chances.
"I can't put a baby in you, Harold. Stop being such a girl. It's 1977 and we can do what we want." Ricky stroked Harold's erection quickly, and then bent to lick off the milky pearl of Cowper's fluid that formed. Harold shifted his dancer's hips and let Ricky pull of his jeans and underwear.
"Just don't hurt me, Ricky," Harold said, turning over. On all fours, he looked back a Ricky, expectant and afraid, his cow eyes glistening in the dark.
"Just relax. I went to Catholic school. I know what I'm doing."
As soon as Ricky slipped his penis in, Harold ejaculated forcefully, shuddering and moaning.
"Yeah, you like that, cunt?" Ricky grunted, thrusting. "You like it when I fuck your cunt? Yeah. You like getting your cunt fucked? You fucking whore. Stop fucking crying, you goddamn pansy. Faggot. Faggot whore!" Ricky fell over backwards onto the filthy rug.
While Harold struggled to his feet and pulled on a robe, Ricky pawed through his own jeans that were puddled on the floor. Harold pulled the chair away from the door and stumbled out of the room, the light from the hallway slashing across Ricky . Ricky lit the joint he found, and stared at the ceiling. Harold came back in as he was almost finished. Harold lay down beside him and Ricky passed him the joint.
"How does this work," Harold asked, "Do I do you next?"
"Don't be ridiculous," Ricky said, yawning. "I'm not a faggot like you. I don't take it in the ass."
"Fair's fair," Harold whined.
"Shut up, Harold. I got big dreams and being a faggot like you isn't one of them." Harold began to sob. Ricky ignored him. "I'm going to find some dumb bitch to marry and pump her full of kids. I'm gonna be lawyer. Maybe go into politics. This country needs somebody like me to set commie faggots like you straight."
Harold's sobs became low laughter, rising steadily in volume. Ricky sat up, and began pulling on his clothes. Harold was howling with laughter by the time he got dressed.
"What's so goddamn funny?" Ricky asked.
Through the peals of laughter, Harold managed, "You'll never be anybody. No one's ever going to take you seriously."
"Why not, faggot?" Ricky kicked him in the leg.
"Your name," Harold managed, "Your stupid name."
"Yeah, yeah. Everybody laughs. But I'm going to change it. And faggots like you won't ever laugh at me again."
With a final kick, Ricky Cumfart stormed out of Harold's room.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
+5 Eggplant Of Anal Assualt
Nancy leaned forward and rasped in his ear, "I'm nowsh Diana! Of the Hunt!" Newt screamed in pain, the agony of hearing your own shitty prose read back to you.
"Are are a Nazi sex kitten?!?" he yelped, uncontrollably. The script was locked in by Nancy's words. There was no going back. He needed to pee very badly, but he knew that would only make Mother angry.
Nancy slipped the greased eggplant into Newt's slack anus. It grated against his enlarged prostate, blown up to the size of a baseball. Newt moaned.
"Get s'hard for you Nashi sex kitten!" Nancy screamed. Newt could feel her wiry nipple hair grating across his hairless back. She reached around and squeezed his flaccid penis. "Get S'HARD!" she screamed again, her shrill voice ringing in his giant round head.
"I can't," Newt gasped, "Not even Callista, my sweet Apple of Discord, can make Hades rise from His work in Tartarus."
"No allusions!" Nancy ordered, digging the eggplant deeper.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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I've seen a lot of fakes in my day...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Rare Photo of Episiarch and Warty Surfaces
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The Dread Male Gaze
Joe Bob and Jim Bob grinned and giggled and nudged each other in the ribs as Michelle struggled from her white polyester dress. The three were alone in the convention hall. Streamers and balloons were everywhere. Tom Petty played softly in the distance. Joe Bob and Jim Bob moved closer to the edge of their folding chairs as Michelle finally shucked off her panties.
"I've had 27 kids," Michelle said, framing her huge modesty of pubic hair with spreading hands. Joe Bob and Jim Bob nodded. Joe Bob licked his lips ponderously. "Ah bet you got yourself a right-nice pussy under all that." Jim Bob let out a high and hysterical giggle, and said, "Bend over and turn around. Ah want to see your butthole. Ah like buttholes." Joe Bob guffawed so convulsively his mesh hat fell off.
"Get undressed," she said. Joe Bob and Jim Bob scrambled to comply. Greasy hands and filthy fingers fumbled at jeans and zippers, shirts and buttons, and tighty whitey underwear gone loose and yellow.
"I want you two to touch each other," Michelle cooed, straining to narrow her eyes to a leer. Joe Bob sputtered, "I ain't no fag, missus!"
"Of course, not. Of course not. Even if you were, I could cure you. But touch each other a little bit. A little bit never hurt anyone, right?" Jim Bob had been nodding and staring at Joe Bob's jutting penis while Michelle cajoled. As Joe Bob ruminated, Jim Bob reached forward and tentatively cupped his balls. Joe Bob stared about wildly. Jim began to gently rub his thumb into the base of Joe Bob's penis, where it met his scrotum. Joe Bob groaned; it sounded loud in the echoes of the empty hall.
"That's how ah like to touch myself," Jim Bob said, eager as a puppy for Michelle's approval. Michelle ignored him, focused on Joe Bob's erection. Absently, Joe Bob began to grope in Jim Bob's crotch as he continued to groan. He began to tug insistently at Jim Bob's penis once he found it. Jim Bob ejaculated on the fourth stroke.
Michelle snorted and grabbed at Joe Bob, "Come on, Jim Bob. Let's fuck while you still can."
"But, I'm Joe Bob, ma'am."
"Does it look like I give a fuck?"
She backed herself to the stage and pulled him into herself. Joe Bob flung himself over and over again into her dark passage. Jim Bob stared at his semen cooling on the floor. He stalked toward Joe Bob with his thumb stiffened before him. It was in Joe Bob before either understood what was happening.
"Gawdammit, Jim Bob!" Joe Bob, bellowed. But he didn't slow his assault on Michelle's vagina.
"Oh, yes, Jim Bob!" Michelle exclaimed.
"Oh, Gawd, Jim Bob!" Joe Bob exclaimed.
"Ah like buttholes!" Jim Bob exclaimed.
"Oh," Michelle screamed, "Oh, oh… Whichever Bob! Spill your filth in me!"
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
6-on-1, Half-a-Dozen In Another
Newt ran his tongue around Tim's gaping anus in a lazy spiral, seeking the center to dart and dip within. Tim was still strapped down ass up, offered like a ruined buffet. Blood leaked in slow rivulets down his scrotum; his wrung-out penis glued to his leg with dried semen. The room stank of sweat and shit.
Michelle emitted a long, rumbling queef as she sat up. Her startled eyes narrowed for just a moment before springing open again. Mitt was masturbating furiously, intent on ejaculating again in Tim's hair. Michelle crawled over and began to lick Mitt's flailing scrotum. He smacked her with his free hand and she tumbled backwards, rolling on to Ron with an inhuman grunt.
Ron was nude, wearing nothing but bright purple surgical gloves. He had assisted Gary in stuffing Rick's testicles into Tim rectum early in the night, and then passed out. Ron had snored through the quadruple anal, a feat of sexual acrobatics and contortion only attempted once, years before in the pleasure pits of Columbus, Ohio. Two people had died that day and one lost the use of his penis, forcing him to fuck on crutches for the rest of his life. The Ass-Pleasure Overseers had declared the position impossible.
New Hampshire had proven them wrong.
Herman had proven them all wrong.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Loneliness of the Middle-Distance Runner's Asshole
Harry turned the lock on his door as quietly as he could and was rewarded with a muted click. It was lunch time and the interns we deep in the bowels of the Rayburn building, swapping pudding cups and STDs. Harry stepped out of his shoes and Haggar slacks and slipped off his shirt. He was naked underneath, except for drooping socks, bunched around his ankles like dark blue foreskins. He carefully placed both pants and shirt on padded hangers and zipped them into a wardrobe travel case.
All 342 pages of the PATRIOT act sat on his desk, fresh from the copier, warm from its light and smelling of fresh toner. He sat in his overstuffed leather chair, a present from Nancy, and placed his feet on the edge of the desk and leaned way back. He groped for the stack of papers. He crumbled the first page tightly and inched it slowly into his gaping anus. With a sigh of pleasure his forced the page back out and it bounced away when it hit the floor. He crumbled, inserted, and defecated another, and then another.
By the time the interns got back from lunch, Harry was a hundred pages in and already thinking about which one of them would lick him clean when he was finished.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
You Are Both Right
Makes me wonder what his own daughters (especially the older one) have pasted on their (hallowed) White House bedroom walls? It would serve Obama right if he found himself raising a Belieber.
R C Dean|4.25.11 @ 3:51PM
I'm thinking Che posters.


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When you're stuck inside, the quickest path to the winter doldrums is boredom.
Legend has it that the first onion burgers were created in El Reno during the Great Depression by enterprising burger-flippers looking for ways to stretch increasingly scarce meat. That costcutting measure still lives and breathes today. While El Reno might be the home of the onion burger, there are plenty other metro eateries that offer the delightful fare.
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By Michael Schaffer - Managing editor
Daily Iowegian
Appanoose County Magistrate Judge Julie De Vries sometime Thursday granted 51-year-old Brian Joseph Davis, of Centerville, pretrial release.
Davis is accused by complaint and affidavit of one count of threat of terrorism, a class D felony. Davis was arrested Tuesday, April 2 after an investigation revealed he had made multiple threats in regards to the lack of security at Centerville schools.
The order De Vries signed was time-stamped 12:17 p.m. April 11, 2013.
The order states the defendant's attorney, James Underwood and Appanoose County Attorney Richard Scott reached an agreement regarding the review of bond.
A psychiatric evaluation by the Community Health Centers of Southern Iowa in Centerville filed with the court Thursday indicated Davis was not a danger to himself or others at this time, which the court accepted.
Davis was ordered to report to the Iowa Department of Corrections office in Centerville no later than 12 p.m. Friday for pretrial supervision. The court also ordered Davis to abide by the conditions of the no contact order, the protected being any school or child care facility for minor children.
Davis was facing a $50,000 cash bond.
A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.


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Mary Ann Boyle, born Feb. 27, 1933, passed away at Park Haven Nursing Home in Greenville.
Mary graduated from Greenville High School in 1949. She was a devout Catholic and will be missed by all who knew and loved her.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, Tommie Ruth and Daniel O'Connell Boyle.
She is survived by her cousins, Larry O'Shannon Boyle of Rowlett and Pat Reece of New York City, N.Y., and a friend, Elsie Jones of Greenville.
A private burial was held Tuesday.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association or to Saint William's Catholic Church of Greenville.
Lynch Funeral Service of Greenville was in charge of arrangements.
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Paula Patton and Robin Thicke - They've loved eachother since high school. Commitment pays off. Go figure.
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This article is by Michael Carroll, the author of Fearless at Work: Timeless Teaching for Awakening Confidence, Resilience, and Creativity in the Face of Life's Demands.
By now we've all heard about the mainstreaming of mindfulness meditation, of the art of sitting still for defined periods. Hospitals are using it as a pain management tool, psychologists are helping clients manage their anxiety and depression with it, and even the military is finding mindfulness helpful for warriors confronting the wounds of war and post-traumatic stress disorder.
It's hardly surprising, then, that mindfulness meditation is finding its way into the venerable halls of our business leadership institutions. The Drucker School of Management and Wharton Business School both offer instruction in mindfulness meditation as a leadership development discipline. Harvard Law School has sponsored entire conferences on the benefits of applying mindfulness to dispute resolution. Virginia Tech is planning a conference titled "Contemplative Practices for a Technological Society," designed for engineers who want to integrate mindfulness meditation and other contemplative disciplines into their work.
Aetna, Merck, General Mills, Google—the list goes on—all are exploring how meditation can help their leaders and employees embrace and thrive in today's hyper-competitive, fast-paced business environment. Yet as business leaders, we ask ourselves a simple, obvious question: Why would we do such a thing? Why would we sit still and do nothing for extended periods?
Typically, the answer to such a reasonable question is a lengthy list of benefits such as sustained attention span, improved multitasking ability, strengthened immune system, increased emotional intelligence, and improved listening skills. There is science behind such claims. Research is fast concluding that sitting still for defined periods is a very healthy thing to do.
But as a former corporate executive and long time meditator, I'd like to suggest that there is another reason why business leaders should learn to meditate, one that is not about collecting a list of benefits. Rather it's all about discovering the secret sauce for preserving our sanity as we ride into the frenetic hyper-connected 21st century. It's about learning to achieve nothing.
Now, such a notion can rouse passionate disdain, especially among business leaders. The idea that to be an inspiring, thriving leader we need to not accomplish, not achieve, not succeed is upsetting. It seems insultingly counterintuitive. Yet, as inappropriate as achieving nothing may seem, it may be exactly what we, as leaders, are looking for.
I am often asked, as a business coach, to help executives refine and improve their leadership abilities. At the beginning of each assignment, the executive is often eager to set goals, improve performance, and experiment with new techniques. But inevitably I have to slow them down and suggest a different approach.
"You know your job well and are pretty good at doing things," I typically remark to the executive. "You wouldn't be where you are in your career if you weren't good at getting stuff done. So for you to develop as a truly distinctive leader we will need to focus less on what you do for a living and focus more on what you see for a living."
And it is from there, from how well we as leaders see our workplace, that we can begin to appreciate the wisdom of not achieving as a valuable perspective. "What are the three central challenges that your colleagues face at work?" "Can you articulate the most important unspoken messages you are receiving from your customers or vendors?" "What are people afraid of in your organization? Can you describe what inspires them?" These and dozens of other vital questions are not about achieving anything at all. What they require is a form of wisdom beyond doing, accomplishing, and achieving. They require us to discern, recognize, and understand.
For committed meditators, cultivating this wisdom of seeing clearly is at the very heart of the mindfulness meditation practice that trains us to step out from behind the curtain of our restless minds and touch life directly, getting a full, authentic measure of our experience beyond self-deception and impulsiveness. And when we do train our minds to relax, open, and step out, we notice that our drive to achieve, with all its passion and forward-looking intent, can frequently blind us to the very things we seek to understand.
This is not to say that we shouldn't do our jobs well or strive for excellence, of course. We all have responsibilities and aspirations. Learning to achieve nothing is not about ignoring our livelihood and the many challenges it presents. Rather, learning to achieve nothing is about being skillful when engaging the many provocative and complex circumstances that increasingly define our global workplace, discerning what is hidden, appreciating a gesture of affection, grasping the intention of a paradox, accepting an unexpected invitation, celebrating a mixed triumph, learning from an alarming emergency. The list is endless, all requiring that we drop our ambition to get somewhere and instead completely be where we are—being open, curious, and skillful.
In the end, cultivating the wisdom of achieving nothing is not about abandoning our jobs as leaders. It's not about sitting by the pool sipping cocktails while everyone else unloads the truck. Rather it's about not being blinded by our speed, anxiety, and passionate drive to achieve. It's about understanding how to see our circumstances clearly and realistically. And today more and more leaders are learning to do so through the practice of mindfulness meditation.
Sound is a great tool for meditation, so people who hate sitting around "trying" to meditate and having an awful time of stilling the mind should look into using sound tools like Tibetan bowls, gongs, or especially voice. thevoiceoflife.com
This article reminds me of a conversation that I had with one of our students last night. He's been attending our mindfulness meditation meeting for the last few weeks and has been practicing sitting and writing meditation daily, as I suggested.
Well, last night he told me that he was suddenly gaining revelations about the things that have been going on in his life. In other words, everything was becoming clear to him. His whole life was starting to make complete sense.
I was so happy for him because I know how comforting this can be. The feeling of being lost or without direction simply disappears.
Charles A. Francis
The Mindfulness Meditation Institute
Interestingly, I'm reading your book. Curious about this word "nothing." There are so many ways to define the great void from which we come and which streams through the great soup of consciousness of which we all swim in. To me, that nothingness is the stillness within from which all emerges. I've studied a number of meditation disciplines and depending on my mood and time – I might swing from Vipassana or mindfulness approach to more of a yogic breathing or yoga nidra. Wondering what you have seen in the corporate setting other than mindfulness – although that is also open to definition as well.
Thanks for your comments.
Generally speaking I have found mindfulness meditation as taught in "mindfulness based stress reduction" (MBSR)to be the most widespread form of meditation being taught in business settings. While the style I teach is called mindfulness awareness out of a Tibetan tradition and differs from the MBSR approach, the practice is essentially the same in terms of training the attention.
My intention in selecting the word "nothing" in the phrase "the wisdom of achieving nothing" is to point to the simple experience of being…simple immediate physical presence which is the basis for recognizing our inherent confidence and sanity. No getting anywhere, or accomplishing anything but simply recognizing something fundamental about being human.
I hope you enjoy my new book…let me know your impressions if you have the time.
This is like Kung Fu Panda;
The secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup…
The secret ingredient is…Nothing…
It is true. Clever ideas leading to huge accomplishments mostly happen when you're at your innermost peace. It probably does open up a channel of communication into the unknown (aliens,deity, intelligent bacterias, or in whichever you have faith at) revealing unto your soul their far more advanced methodology that created the very you. LOL.


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Occupy Nashville Protesters Are Hypocritical, Authoritarian Oppressors of Homeless?
Greg Johnson has a different take on the Occupy Nashville protesters: They're a greedy, selfish lot oppressing the homeless with the help of "union goons."
The crowd that decried Gov. Bill Haslam's efforts to keep Legislative Plaza safe and sanitary for the people in downtown Nashville who have to work for their food instead of having it donated to them are now bringing in union goons to police the area and issuing directives on how to dress, speak and behave.
....Occupiers want to decrease income inequality and, ultimately, they want the rich taxed more, which, ultimately, means redistributing resources from those who earned it to those who didn't. Yet, when those with much, much less -- the 0.5 percent -- come to their camp for food, Occupiers line up and shout at them.
In just a few weeks, Occupy Nashville has implemented its own stratified society, created its own caste system that casts out the homeless. Occupiers want to take from the rich but refuse to give to the poorer. In Nashville, the Occupy movement proved selfish and entitled, the very values Occupiers supposedly disdain.
Far from egalitarian and inclusive, Occupiers want to get for themselves, which is greed defined.


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However, a deal with Brian Wilson is now considered "very unlikely."
The Mets are interested in signing Valverde, but only on their terms. Rubin suggests the Mets might be prepared to guarantee Valverde $4MM on a deal with significant incentives. Though the Mets have some interest in Rodriguez, he is believed to be seeking about $7MM, according to Rubin. Both free agent right-handers are clients of the Boras Corporation.
The Mets visited Roy Oswalt to convince him to join the team as its closer, Rubin reports. Oswalt is not interested in becoming a closer, so he's no longer an option for GM Sandy Alderson. The Mets have one serious offer out to a late-inning reliever who's not a closer, Rubin adds. The team expects to hear back from the player shortly.


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JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - The icy conditions proved hazardous for motorists across the Magnolia State. The fly-over bridge on Highway 49 to Interstate 20 westbound toward the stack and Interstate 20 westbound in Hinds County has been closed for several hours. Motorists were stranded on the roadways.
"I mean hundreds. It's backed up. I can see in my rear view mirror. There's no end to them," said Donna McDavid of Florence.
Vehicles were lined up bumper to bumper at a standstill for hours.
"You might move an inch, stop for 20 minutes move and do the same thing," said Lisa Nutt of Morton.
"I got on onto the stack about 4:00 p.m. and have been here even since. I may have moved a tenth of a mile," said Rodney Cuevas of Brandon.
He was trying to get home to Brandon from downtown Jackson. It is a drive that typically takes 15 minutes.
"Kind of hungry, had a late lunch. Thank goodness, but kind of hungry and looking at a quarter tank of gas," said Cuevas.
Running out of gas was a real concern because cars are supplying heat. For some, being without food can be just as threatening. Lisa Nutt is a diabetic. She said, "My blood sugar did drop just a little while ago. I did have something I could take to help that, but if this goes on many more hours I might have a problem. Is this pretty scary for you? Ya, it is."
We received reports of people walking around, even having to relieve themselves in the bitter cold.
"It's like an ice skating people are sliding so they stayed in their cars more. The girl ahead of me apparently her car died so the nice people jumped her off got her going again," said Donna McDavid of Florence.
McDavid was able to slide her way onto I-20 west bound. She began moving, but that brought dangers of its own.
"He slid, he did a 180," said McDavid of a truck ahead of her. "He's trying to straighten back up. If you barely put your gas on it is crazy."
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A deceased man reviews his complicated but loving relationship with his wife, in this tale narrated from beyond the grave.
A diverse selection of shorts from Iranian filmmakers around the world, focusing on issues of Persian identity.
A female taxi driver and a woman seeking a transgender operation form an unlikely alliance, despite a clash of class and beliefs.
A black comedy meets road movie, following a family as they deal with a funeral, traffic jams and endless toilet breaks.
A young Iranian girl and a young man, both third generation Iranian immigrants, search for their utopia in Istanbul.
This contemporary Iranian adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, portrays a single-parent family living in Tehran.
A photojournalist shows his commitment to the environment by becoming a street sweeper in Mehrjui's box office hit.
Three documentaries and a discussion exploring Iran and what it means to be Iranian, wherever home may be.


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|Five early-season NHL mirages
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|Wednesday, 16 November 2011 09:00
Fans of the Oilers, Bruins, Stars, Canucks and Senators shouldn't rush to conclusions about their teams based on the beginning of the season. For better or worse, there's plenty of hockey left to be played.
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Community Nutrition
Through community education, the Coalition works to ensure all people have the resources they need to lead healthy lives.
For many people struggling to feed their families, nutrition comes second to simply putting food on their tables. People often stretch their budgets by buying cheaper, processed foods that are high in calories but low in nutritional content. Many low-income neighborhoods don't have supermarkets, making it harder for families to find fresh, healthy food.
Not surprisingly, people at risk for hunger are also much more likely to suffer from health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, even obesity. And that has long-term consequences, jeopardizing a person's ability to perform in school or at work and reducing their overall quality of life.
The Community Nutrition program works to address these issues through:
- Free nutrition workshops: Families are welcome to attend these community workshops, featuring tips for eating healthy on a budget, reading food labels and other nutrition information. Plus, free food tastings and chef demos.
- Community garden: With the support of individual donations and the Pincus Fund, the Coalition created a community garden just blocks from our office in the Francisville section of North Philadelphia. Harvested produce goes to food pantries and low-income seniors in the neighborhood.
- Educational newsletters: SNAP (Food Stamp) Hotline clients receive a quarterly newsletter filled with health tips and budget-friendly recipes.
- Assisting Philadelphia feeding programs: The Coalition works with local food pantries and soup kitchens to improve the nutritional quality of the food distributed to clients, many of whom face serious health issues.
More Resources:
- "When Poverty Means Hunger for the Right Food," by Alfred Lubrano, Philadelphia Inquirer (10/31/10)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): SNAP is the nation's most effective anti-hunger program, helping more than 44 million Americans put nutritious food on their tables.
- USDA Food and Nutrition: Practical guides to help families build healthier diets, plus more information on vital federal nutrition programs.


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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — The climate change forum (Feb. 24) is scary. However, arbitrarily cherry-picking a short time period ("as observed over the past decade") is inappropriate when a hundred-year history is readily available.
Lake Michigan levels have been continuously monitored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1918. For instance, there was a five-foot water level drop from 1918 to 1926 and a subsequent recovery; other four- and five-foot drops from 1929 to 1934; 1952 to 1959, 1986 to 1990, and the present drop since 1997.
It's hard to believe that the present drop is due to global warming or climate change, whereas the other drops since 1918 are due to Mother Nature. "Climate change is taking our water" needs to be revisited.
On a similar note, most people should know by now that global warming officially ended 16 years ago as was reluctantly admitted by the U.N. IPCC and by the British Meteorological Office.
Some claim the yearly increase in carbon dioxide from 1978 to 1998 (again, a cherry-picked period of time) caused the globe to warm. However, the same yearly increase in carbon dioxide (about two ppm) since 1998 has caused no warming. How can this be?
Tom Moore
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|Paris Métro Guide
|The best way to see Paris is on foot, but when you must ride, use the RATP Métro.
For price and convenience, the Paris Métro operated by RATP can't be beat. It has some 300+ stations throughout the city, so there is bound to be a Métro station near where you want to go. Here's a map of the Paris Métro.
Here's what it costs, and how to save money buying tickets.
Métro stations are marked by a variety of signs, including "M," "Métro," and ones reading Metropolitain. The trains run from 5:30 am to past midnight (24:00), finishing up their final runs after 01:00 am.
On most journeys, you will have to change lines at least once. Even if you have to change twice, trains arrive and depart so frequently (about every 3 minutes), and operate so fast, that this is not a hindrance, although the walk between lines can be long—even five or ten minutes—in some large stations such as Châtelet, the largest subway station in Europe.
Route Maps & Plans du Quartiers
Every Métro station has route maps of the system. Near the exit is a plan du quartier, a map of the streets and buildings surrounding each Métro station. The maps are pictorial and very detailed, so you can see exactly where you will be standing when you emerge from a particular Métro exit stairway. Consult the plan du quartier before you exit the station. You may want to use a different exit stairway so as to be on the other side of a busy street.
The Paris Métro is quite safe most of the time. Precautions are in order in the northern parts of the city, in deserted stations late at night, and in those long corridors between stations late at night.
As a tourist, you are a special mark.
You may feel safer riding in the front-most (head) car of the train, where the engineer is.
A special warning is in order against pickpockets(pickpockets in French) who operate in every public transport system in the world.
Especially in crowded buses and train cars, keep all your valuables in a neck pouch under your clothes, or another secure place, not in a pocket or open purse.
A master pickpocket, aided by an accomplice making some distraction (pushing, shouting, etc.) can extract valuables from a trouser pocket without your feeling a thing.
In Paris, pickpockets may include bands of children who jostle or surround you, distract you by rushing around or waving something in your face, pick your pockets clean, and disappear, all in only a few seconds.
Do not let them near you!
Be rude if you have to, but keep them at bay if you value your valuables.


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I Read About a Horse Today...
by Marilyn Mackenzie
Animals can be so inspirational. I'm sure most of you have seen the videos about the dog that was born with only two legs. He learned to walk upright like a human. (If you haven't, just do a Google search and be prepared for cry.)
Today I was going through some emails at a Yahoo address that I don't visit that often. When I register for free stuff, I use this email just in case the address gets sold to other companies. It usually does and it's always full of junk and spam. It's also the address that I use for friends who insist on forwarding every single email they get about anything.
I've written about forwards before. They bug me for so many reasons. First, as one who (at least in the past when I had less fibro fog and more energy) has been paid to write, it bothers me that we never get to know the identity of those beautiful words. I wonder, really, where they originate. Is there one person in this universe who spends the day trolling the internet in search of beautiful words, then puts graphics and music to them and sends them to friends...who send them to friends....who send them to friends?
Another thing that bugs me about forwards is that most people who spend their days forwarding every single email they get don't think before they forward to their entire address book. If they were more selective, I wouldn't mind as much, although I would still worry if they were infringing on someone's copyright. Sending emails about women who lost their babies to someone who just had a miscarriage, for instance isn't smart. But for the person who has elected him/herself the king/queen of forwards, there is no thought or consideration about the recipients. They are only fueled by the need to forward.
But I digress...
Early this morning, I decided to clean out that email account. I carefully trashed everything that looked like pure junk and spam. Then I decided to quickly look at some of the forwards this guy in Lousiana sends out.
Some forwards were cute, but not cute enough to send to others or to save - just cute enough to view and say, "ahhh" as I deleted them.
Then I came across a story of a horse. The story was written with no mention or regard to the writer. That bugged me. But it was a story I thought should be shared. I searched and found a blog about this horse. Maybe you've already heard about Molly.
Molly was abandoned by her owners during Hurricane Katrina. She spent some time fending for herself, then was rescued. While at the rescue farm, she was attacked by a pit bull. Her leg became infected. And as you well know, many horses with infected legs are "put down."
This horse, though, was special and was given a prosthetic leg.Â
Here's what the blog says about Molly:
"The prosthetic has given Molly a whole new life," Allison Barca DVM, Molly's regular vet, reports. "And she asks for it! She will put her little limb out, and come to you and let you know that she wants you to put it on. Sometimes she wants you to take it off too." And sometimes, Molly gets away from Barca. "It can be pretty bad when you can't catch a three-legged horse," she laughs.
Most important of all, Molly has a job now. Kaye, the shelter farm owner, started taking Molly to shelters, hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers--anywhere she thought that people needed hope after losing so much in the storm. Wherever Molly went, she showed people her pluck. She inspired people. And she had a good time doing it.
"It's obvious to me that Molly had a bigger role to play in life," Moore said, "She survived the hurricane, she survived a horrible injury, and now she is giving hope to others."
Yes, indeed. Animals can be inspirational. Can you imagine the pain that Molly must have experienced? And yet she chose to go on. She chose to not bite at those trying to help her, as some animals do when they're in lots of pain. She chose to have a good attitude and now has a new purpose in life - to offer hope to others.
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Volunteer: Erin Cross
Served as a Protected Area Management Volunteer in Northern Madagascar from 2007-2009. Primary projects focused on Eco-tourism development and intensive crop production. Secondary projects included solar cooking and organic gardening.
Contributions from Erin Cross
Always on time
When you get there, you get there. Therefore the bush taxi always arrives on time! In this instance, we didn't have a jack to fix our flat tire. So we all got out and rocked the bus back and forth until someone was able to wedge a large rock underneath the vehicle so we could fix the flat. We arrived on time to our destination nearly 4 hours later than expected!
Roberta is the granddaughter of a very good friend of mine! They became my family away from home.
Island of Lemurs
This little boy was so enthusiastic to have his picture taken, and he had the perfect background! The natural beauty of this little island off the northern coast of Madagascar was truly one of a kind!
Madagascar Music
Music, clapping, singing, dancing! Great times!
These boys were always having so much fun playing!


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Having won two World Cup medals in Lake Placid and one in Park City, driver Cory Butner has shown he can win medals on American soil. European tracks have proven more difficult for Butner, though, where he has won only one medal on the World Cup tour.
Career highlights:
- 2014 Winterberg World Cup - Bronze
- 2013 Lake Placid World Cup - Bronze
- 2012 Lake Placid World Cup - Silver
- 2012 Park City World Cup - Silver
Things to know:
1. A push athlete from 2007-09, Butner became a driver ahead of the 2009-10 season.
2. Butner graduated with a degree in statistics from U.C. Riverside in 2005.


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Greg Septon stepped onto the roof of the We Energies power plant in Port Washington Monday flanked by photographers and a man wagging a broom in the air to ward off an angry falcon mother. He fetched four baby peregrine falcons from their nest and returned to a meeting room in the building for a tagging process that for him has become routine.
For 26 years, Septon has been working to restore what was a dwindling-near-extinction population of peregrine falcons in the state, through the Wisconsin Peregrine Falcon Recovery Project.
Septon encourages power plants such as the We Energies plant in Port to set up box nests for falcons, as they have difficulty surviving in the wild. The location is ideal because the birds like to nest atop cliffs near water.
Since the program started at the Port location in 2000, 44 peregrine falcons have been born on the roof.
"They were near extinction, so man stepped in and said, if we give them these boxes, maybe the birds will start using them," We Energies Media Relations Director Cathy Schulze said.
In front of We Energies employees, media, and bird enthusiasts Monday, Septon tagged the birds for tracking and drew blood samples for a DNA bank at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. The birds cried out repeatedly during the process, as volunteers held down the their wings for Septon to draw the blood.
Falcon Fever
One volunteer was Sylvia Buonanni, who came from her home in Minneapolis to see the tagging because of her special bond with the chicks' mother, Indy Foona.
Buonanni's fascination with falcons began with a "falcon cam" on the Indianapolis Star website.
"I got addicted to the camera view," Buonanni said.
When Indy Foona was tagged as a baby, Buonanni had the chance to hold her afterward. She then joined a group in Indianapolis that watches over baby peregrine falcons and tries to protect them as they take their first flights. They watch as the chicks take off, and they rush to the scene when they hear of any who get injured.
"It's exhausting," Buonanni said. "It's like watching your children grow up, but the survival rate's about 50 percent. You really just want them to be out there doing what they're supposed to be doing."
When Buonanni heard that Indy Foona had flown to Milwaukee and was having her own babies, Buonanni decided to make the trip down. She brought a frame with portraits of Foona, and Foona's mom and dad, which hangs above her stairs at home.
Buonanni watched with a smile as the next generation was christened with tags given names: Dr. J, Peeta, Edna, and Patricia.


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Expert baking tips
Over the years we have learned a few tricks. Here are ten of our most important tips for home baking with Trex:
- Use either metric or imperial measurements, never mix the two. Use our handy conversion chart to work out the correct weights and volumes.
- Try to use cooks' measuring spoons and level off the ingredients for perfectly proportioned cakes.
- Make sure you have the right tin for the job. If it is too big the cake mixture will be spread thinly and cook too quickly. Too small and the mixture could overflow when it begins to rise.
- Once you have poured the cake mixture into the baking tin give it a tap on the counter to release any air bubbles.
- Oven temperatures vary, so check your cake five minutes before the end of the recommended cooking time. Refer to our conversion chart if you are unsure about selecting the correct oven temperature.
- Not sure if your cake is cooked properly? Try inserting a fine skewer into the centre of the cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is cooked.
- Leave the oven door closed! Open it too early and your cake could collapse in the middle.
- Store your cooked cake with half an apple to help keep it moist and prolong its freshness.
- Speed up your preparation time by looking out for the and symbols – these recipes can be prepared using an electrical food processor or hand held mixer.
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Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 7:30p.m.
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When Sandy Pearson was searching for a name for her handmade-headbands company in 2010, she turned to the blogosphere for ideas. The result? B.I.C. Bands, short for Because I Can Bands. "The woman who came up with the name raises money for lots of different charities and told me that she runs because she can for those who can't," explains Pearson, who donates a portion of the proceeds from each sale to charity.
Pearson, a half-marathon runner and a mother of two in Inland Empire, Calif., started the business by making non-slip, no-headache, washable headbands for herself to wear while exercising. She now has a team of helpers (her mom and friends) who sew and ship B.I.C. Bands worldwide. "We've taken over the kids' playroom," she says. "It's filled with products and shipping materials."
The Intuit Small Business Blog spoke recently with Pearson about how she uses social networking and GoPayment to keep her business running.
ISBB: Did you always want to be an entrepreneur?
Pearson: Not at all. I went to school to be a teacher (early childhood education) but became a stay-at-home mom, then this happened. It started when I was looking for a way to raise funds to run my first half marathon with Team in Training for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I made headbands that didn't slip, and friends said they'd buy them, so I started sewing and my little venture began. Because B.I.C. Bands were such a hit after my race, I decided to continue making and selling the bands and to give back to those in need.
Giving back is at the heart of your business. How do you choose your charities?
We look for ways to donate that are in line with what we represent. Some suggestions come from our customers. I ran my first marathon two and a half years ago for a dear friend who had lymphoma. In June, we were able to give $2,150 to Cookies for Kids' Cancer. We post our charity of the month on Facebook. Until the end of October, we will be raising money for disabled athletes through Athletes Serving Athletes. We say that we raise funds because we can for those who can't so that one day they will.
You bring a lot of energy to your social postings. What channel works best for you?
I've had really good luck engaging with people on Facebook. I have a Pinterest board, and I used to blog but don't have time anymore. I'm my target audience, and I know what catches my attention. (I love to buy cute things.) I've asked people to sign up for our email list on Facebook; we're using Constant Contact for email campaigns. I also ask for input and get it. For example, people said they wanted a wider Big Bling Sparkle headband, so we made it. When you ask, it's really important to follow through.
What marketing efforts have been most successful?
Our biggest sales come from our website. People will order a basic black to try it, then they'll come back and order six more in other colors. We haven't done any advertising. We'll send a sample to bloggers and ask them to review it or to do a give-away. Even if we get one sale, that person might pass it on to a girl at the gym or their running partner, so it has become a word-of-mouth business. Our audience is the athletic industry, and we stay fairly targeted. We don't sell, for example, at farmers' markets. We'll do a bigger trade show later this year.
How has GoPayment helped your business?
It's been a great way to get into the mobile market. It helped us compete with the big dogs when we were new. I'm not required to set up a merchant account, and I like having the one-to-one [interaction] with customers. GoPayment brings your business to a different level if you're a newbie. I have a girlfriend with a cupcake business and one who makes hair bows, and I'm constantly telling everyone this is the way to go.
Running didn't just help your business: It was the catalyst. What tips do you have for newbie runners?
I always wanted to run, but I didn't run in a marathon until 2009. I've just finished my 14th half marathon. Here are five tips that I wish someone had told me when I started:
1. Start with a plan. I would get out there, run for five minutes and think, "What on earth am I doing?" and give up. Then I was introduced to the Couch-to-5K plan, which got me from the couch to a 5K in six weeks.
2. Get fitted for proper running shoes from a running store. Grabbing the cutest or best priced running shoes will set you up for disaster. No two feet are alike, and you need to have a shoe that is made for you. What is good for your best friend isn't always the best for you.
3. Ask a friend to join you. Getting out there with someone else makes it more fun.
4. Sign up for an event. Check out Active.com for a list of local races that are coming up in your area. You're much more likely to stick to a plan if you have an event to train for.
5. Hydrate and fuel properly. Your body is working hard, so make sure you are giving it good nutrients before and after your workout (and during, if you start doing runs that are longer than 45 minutes). I like oatmeal in the morning before a long run, water during, and a fruit smoothie with a scoop of protein powder after.


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Bathurst Migrant Camp
The National Archives of Australia is your first place to start your search:
National Archives of Australia and their search button http://www.naa.gov.au/search/search.html
Records Search:
Telephone Directory:
All reference inquiries http://www.naa.gov.au/publications/fact_sheets/fs01.html
World War II records:
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Documents held in Canberra:
Addresses of other Australian archival institutions:
OzeUkes Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations
Ukrainian organizations in Australia
Australia accepts displaced persons from Europe - 843 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians arrive. (1947)
Check Immigrant ships Transcribers' Guild SS Oxfordshire: http://www.immigrantships.net/v4/1900v4/oxfordshire19500306_02.html
Hi Olga,
I used my naturalization papers which had my name, D.O.B., & born in Germany. I backtracked with the Australia Archives and immigration. I learned where I was born; what camps; names of grandparents; where in Poland my parents came. We stayed at these camps over a 10 year period after the hardships both my parents went through in Germany, mum was a forced labourer on a German farm, and my father was an inmate of concentration camps: Majdanek in Poland, Mauthausen in Germany/ Austria and Natsweiller in France.
After the war, we spent 5 years in various DP camps in Germany before we migrated to Australia. I was born in DP camp Hohenfels, Bad Reichenhall. If you think they a useful, you could use them on the Australia page of your site.
I'm forwarding you the Archives in Canberra as well as the Polish page. Congratulations on your site. It is fantastic. You have done so much wonderful stuff and gone to so much trouble. You are an inspiration and a tremendous help to other people doing research into their background, people like me who knew nothing about their parents past lives. I feel to have a future, you must know your past. Thank you for your contribution. It is much appreciated.
Poles in Oceania and their English version http://www.polonica.org.au/poloniae.html
The Polish Connection on rootsweb http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~atpc/index-atpc.html
Warm regards, Maria Nolan / Australia
Out of service? by Elizabeth Drozd
The Snowy Mountains Scheme and Multicultural Australia
Hi Olga
Terra Nova means a new land -- it was the title of an exhibition for some of us from within the Polish community set up at the Immigration museum in melbourne. It then toured Australia and visited Poland. It commemorated 50 years of post war migration by Poles to Australia.
regards, Lucyna Artymiuk Melburne, Australia
Hello Olga
Yesterday I went with a friend to an exhibition where I was to met a woman, who runs the Museum in a very heavily populated ethnic area of Croatian, and Serbians, Russian and Poles, who would like to do an exhibition for the Displaced Migrants who came to Australia in 1950's period.
Could you please provide me with all the websites address details.
This exhibit would allow the youngsters, some 3000 whose parents and grandparents fall into this group, to understand their family history which for many has never been discussed or told like in my case over a 45 year period.
I think it would help as I had told her how I now was learning and wanted to do something using my mother's experience to educate myself further and my children as well. Kind regards Anne-Marie Hofman
Hello Olga.
With such little information do I have a chance of perhaps finding the daughter. What do you think? Any ideas would be very much appreciated.
Yours Carolyn Hennessy
Hello Olga and Stefan:
So pleased that I found your site. Just found the Greta camp information where my husband's family from Poland went to after arriving in Australia. thank you thank you. a wonderful website. enjoyed reading this article. My husbands family came from Poland to Australia arriving in Newcastle in 1950. They sailed on the Goya from Bremenhaven in Germany and were in the Greta Camp. Do you know where I can get more information or photos of the camp or the Goya??? thanks Linda Juda
Thank you for your help. The Australian National Museum has sent me some information on the ship, and I have now got photocopies of the Goya. Many thanks. Linda Juda
Hello, Olga - My book is:
I am already sending your web-address to those old friends I mentioned yesterday. Good for some more recorded reminiscences.
We do applaud this project!
Olga - I am "addicted" to your site now, deriving more from it every time open it. You might like to add another book to your lists (general and Polish):
Sonya was George's mother - the book centres on her story, including her fortunes in post-war Europe, the difficult early days in Australia, and her rising career as a noted weaver. It is plentifully illustrated by photographs, many in colour, of Sonya's work, the family, etc. We have originals ofthe photographs relevant to the European-camps period of Sonya and George's lives.
We still reckon this is the best site seen for donkeys' ages! Lois Carrington
November 10, 2008 Dear Olga,
I don't know what has happened locally in Western Australia
with Tom's work but, internationally, it is being pursued by the Immigrant
Ships Transcribers Guild. Lately I have been corresponding with Richard Botteron
of the ISTG about
The idea is to let users know that many of his passenger lists
are incomplete, so their co-operation in having them digitized by the
Western Australia is a whole continent and three hours away from me in Canberra, so tracking him down at a phone account in someone else's name was quite an achievement. I can't do much more from here than issue encouragement through my own Web site.
Fascinating artwork too, Olga.
G'Day Olga,
During my search for information regarding my families early years in Australia, 1950 and onward, I was introduced to a wonderful book called ' Letters of Heartache and hope' by Edith Torokfalvy. ISBN: 0 646 22175 2. It is self published and can be obtained from Gould Publishing.
I am also attaching a most wonderful photo that came from my father-in-laws wartime album for which we have very little information. I send it to you in case the posting of this photo on your site can shake out information on the men in it. My father-in-law is not in the photo. His name is Jan Dziedzic and he was a member of the Polish Underground Swietokrzyska Brigade. His brigade name was Kula. He was born in Olesnica. Here is a link to that Polish Underground unit that my father-in-law was with Swietokrzyska Brigade. It is in Polish, so I am not aware of its content.http://www.mailbox.olsztyn.pl/users/mail0070/nsz/nhtm/nshw11-e.htm
With kind regards from Australia, Hans Simons email@example.com
Afforded few comforts, these resourceful seafarers waited out the war far removed from front line action. While confined nightly in cramped cells, they were free to roam by day, "easy-going military guard permitted every liberty that prisoners-of-war could reasonably expect," They bridge the Wingecarribee River, building along its banks chalets and gardens in the style of their homeland. They supplied fresh produce to a community that learns to accept them, respect them, and even love them with their choir, orchestra and theatre.
Prisoners in Arcady:
German Mariners in Berrima 1915-1919 by John Simons is available from
The Berrima District Historical Society, PO Box 131, Mittagong, NSW, 2575,
Australia. Phone: (02) 48722169 The book costs about $45 plus postage.
1/20/06 Hello Olga,
Continue on to Australia Page 2
Archives of Europe: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/euro1.html
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Date: 2/8/2013
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It's amazing what you can create with duct tape - from wallets to cell phone cases. Explore the world of duct tape art. Ages: 10-16Library: Dakota County Library at Apple Valley (Galaxie) Map
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