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Asking them to regain the heights of the 1980s would be too much, but they can still be a force in international competition
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Anyone can discern the direction of travel. The challenge is to decipher whether it is a cycle or a trend. Will things naturally improve again, once the wheel begins to turn? Or is the decline structural, a trend that will lead inexorably downwards towards collapse, unless its course is radically changed? It is a central question. Before we can improve the situation, first we have to understand the nature of the problem.
In the case of West Indies cricket, the decline was beginning to look ominously like a trend rather than a cycle. Over the last ten years, West Indies have consistently languished at the bottom of the Test match rankings. West Indies cricket is much loved around the world - including by this column - but its fans struggled in vain for signs that this was just a passing phase rather than a permanent decline. Anyone who watched West Indies drift towards annihilation on the Test tour of England in 2009 could only conclude that the good old days of Caribbean cricket - of lithe but lethal fast bowling, of brutal but beautiful batsmanship, of languid and liquid fielding, and, above all, a sense of adventure and joyous self-expression - had gone forever.
It ran deeper than the mere on-field performances. The malaise seemed profound. There was a gloomy listlessness both on and off the field, a sense that there is something not right about the whole culture of West Indies cricket. I tried to follow the details of the recurrent disputes between the board and the players, but eventually they blurred into a general sense that there was far too much emphasis on money and not enough on cricket.
So last weekend's triumph by West Indies in the final of the World Twenty20 is, at the very least, a wonderful change to a losing pattern. It is the first West Indies tournament victory on the world stage since their relatively minor ODI tournament win in 2004 in England.
There were encouraging signs at every level - mystery spin, thrilling batting, and captaincy stamped with decency rather than self-interest. And the "reintegration" of Chris Gayle - to borrow a phrase that the ECB use about the return of Kevin Pietersen - has been made to work, however difficult it may have been to achieve. The rumblings of discord between players and management can still be heard in the near distance. But there is nothing like victory to heal old wounds and galvanise a sense of purpose.
But will the West Indian triumph as World T20 champions prove to be a watershed or just a false dawn?
Perhaps we need a little history to place modern West Indies cricket in context. The West Indian teams of the '70s, '80s and early '90s were not just unusually successful. That cricketing dynasty may well have been the greatest international sports team - forget just cricket - ever to take the field. As Michael Holding argued in the film Fire in Babylon: "No other sporting team in any discipline anywhere in the world dominated their sport for 15 years." Holding is a famously modest man with no need to brag about anything. He was just telling the plain truth.
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And it wasn't just a case of eleven brilliant individuals. The most extraordinary feature of those West Indian teams was their strength in depth. Indeed, sometimes a single island boasted more fast bowling talent than the rest of the world put together. In 1984, Wayne Daniel, Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall played the lead role in bowling out Australia. At the same time, on the highly controversial "rebel" West Indian tour of South Africa, Sylvester Clarke, Franklyn Stephenson, Hartley Alleyne and Ezra Moseley bowled out South Africa. All eight fast bowlers weren't just West Indian, they were all from Barbados. One small island could have taken on any team in the world.
So how could a collection of tiny islands in the Caribbean - bound together only vaguely, by geography, a shared university and a single cricket team - dominate a world sport so completely?
The glory days of West Indian cricket benefited from a perfect-storm situation. The formidable standard of club cricket - so memorably described in CLR James' Beyond a Boundary - produced a steady stream of hardened cricketers. The national team also benefited from the looseness of the concept of "nation" itself: West Indians only come together to play cricket. That inter-island rivalry created fierce competition. Speaking to Viv Richards this summer, I was struck by how vividly he described the rivalries within domestic cricket when he was a young player.
And then, of course, there was the much deeper question of the team having a point to prove. Fire In Babylon argues that the racial dimension, the sense that the teams of Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards embodied the struggle of a whole people against colonial oppression, was a central explanation of West Indian success. All these threads - some explicit, some mysterious - were woven together by the leadership of Lloyd and then Richards.
But a perfect storm cannot strike twice. West Indies have to accept that whatever the future looks like, they are highly unlikely to emulate the astonishing dominance of the 1980s. That is not a lack of ambition; it is realism. West Indies can still be a real force in international cricket. But they should no longer be judged by the standards of the previous generation. Crucially, renewal and revival are sometimes easier when you are free from the burden of expectation. Perhaps this West Indies team is finally sufficiently far removed from the glory days to not feel the pain of comparison.
The world game, not just the Caribbean islands, raised a glass to the new T20 world champions. It is wonderful to see them back at top table. We still can't be sure whether this is just a cycle or a real trend. But we at least know that the direction of travel, at long last, is upwards.
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If you want your fruit trees to boom in the summer, raising mason bees might be the best buzz available.
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When he first started raising mason bees 15 years ago, his fruit production "went nuts," he said. Logue will give a lecture on how to begin a program of raising mason bees at 10 a.m Saturday, Jan 31.
Wild Birds Unlimited in Gardiner will host the event for a suggested donation of $5 for two people. Donations will go toward a community education fund benefiting the Northwest Raptor Center in Sequim.
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Since I normally take the tube or walk, I'm not real cab savvy in London. Is there a minimum distance /fare for which a London cab will accept a passenger - especially on Christmas Eve? The reason I ask is I've seen Paris taxis refuse to take fares that they didn't deem far enough (to get a big tip, I'm sure) on the last shopping day or two at Christmas.
Secondly, is there a good chance I could hail a cab outside of most tube stations?
I will not be in a major shopping area, more residential if that makes a difference. Thanks in advance for any info and advice you have.
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I would suggest not relying on black cabs, and instead using a cab company. Try Addison lee or Swiss cottage cabs. They are not more expensive, and will be much more reliable!
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Please clarify what you are asking. It sounds like you mean you are out and about and just decide to hail a cab. A car service (like the one mentioned above) isn't for that sort of thing. They aren't allowed to pickup fares - you'd need to pre-book.
Black cabs (called that even though they are every color under the sun) will take you even short distances . . . I assume you aren't talking about 200yds or something like that. But there could be legit reasons even for that short a ride.
And sure you can hail them on the street, outside of tube stations, at train stations, all over. But just how 'residential' do you mean. Most areas are mixed and there will be cabs. But if it is a suburban residential street - no. You'd have to call for a cab (taxi) or a mini cab (car service)
Give us more details - as it is it is hard to answer your question. -
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janisj, yes, rather vague I was there. I'm arriving LHR on 24 dec and I'm trying to compare taking the Express or Connect into the city vs using a car service from airport to the flat where I'm staying. The flat is .6 of a mile from the nearest tube station, but I don't know the neighborhood. Couple that with I will have been awake for over 24 hrs and will have luggage. Then add on the craziness of Christmas Eve.
I would normally say that under those circumstances, I book the car service, but I'm trying also to calculate the time it will take as I've got to get to the flat then go back out to get groceries for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, so time is valuable.
Hope this helps to get better answers. Thanks for responding, both you and Rushil. -
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What tube stop are you closest to? Sometimes the express or connect will work but its sometimes a complete waste of money and taking the tube is the better option. If your tube stop is in central London a cab shop be no problem, but if its in a residential area farther out you may not find one outside the station and may need to pre-arrange. Can you be more specific?
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I'll try answering the question you asked, though it really is too vague and wrong end of the stick-like to be really answerable. I wonder if, for all your "I normally take the tube" claims, you've ever actually looked at a tube station.
By and large, with the crucial exceptions of Heathrow and very short journeys from main railway station cab ranks, London cab drivers don't have minimums: the meter starts so relatively high, the economic advantage is in the maximum number of short journeys, rather than the minimum number of long ones, during a cab driver's shift.
Insular delusions about "to get a big tip, I'm sure" are just wrong. London cab drivers generally don't give a stuff about tips: their economic imperative is maximum revenue, and that requires cramming the maximum amount of passenger-carrying into their day.
A few tube stations have cab ranks: the overwhelming majority don't, and many suburban stations with ranks never have taxis on them when you want them. Some have lots of cabs driving past: others are tucked away up culs de sac that never see a cab, others are located in busy streets where pedestrian barriers and jagged lines make hailing a taxi within 200 yds impossible, while hailing a taxi can be a doddle from some exits of a particular station and impossible from others.
I've no idea where you've got this "craziness of Christmas Eve" nonsense from. London is empty most Christmas Eves (and certainly every Christmas Eve that falls on a Monday): except around suburban supermarkets and some street markets, its shops are almost devoid of customers (which is why I usually go into London on Christmas Eve for hassle-free shopping and some gallery viewing), and almost all its offices are closed. That doesn't make getting a cab dramatically easier: Christmas is a holiday for cab drivers too, and they're as likely to start the holiday on Christmas Eve as everyone else.
Again with the exception of some roads round suburban shopping areas ("suburban" can some include inner city dense residential areas like Islington, though some of these, like Notting Hill, empty out on Christmas Eve as well), London roads on a Monday Christmas Eve are empty. Prebooked cars from airports to most destinations around London will be faster than public transport, even if you arrive during what'd be the rush hour on a normal weekday morning
For many journeys, the easiest way to travel 1 kilometre from a tube station is by bus. Put the full postcode into the TfL journey planner, and you'll end up with detailed public transport recommendations to within 10 yds (in London, the average radius of a postcode) of your front door.
Which said, if luggage is a problem, the easiest solution is to book an airport pickup from just-airports or whoever. For one person, it'll probably cost more than the sum of the tube and a local taxi - but it'll avoid what might be the unpredictable hassle of the final kilometre.
Remember virtually all shops close early on Christmas Eve, though rumours everything closes on Christmas Day are silly oudated myths put about by people who have no idea what claptrap they're spouting because they've manifestly not been on London's streets on Christmas Day for the past five years. But this mythology is especially resistant to real knowledge on web advice sites.
Substantial suburban supermarkets typically close by 1800 or earlier, though convenience stores (including petrol station C-store chains and the major supermarkets' slimmed down fascias) stay open much later. Looking at Time Out, both online and hard copy, gives essential (and reliable) survival information for the Dec 24-26 period. -
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"I'm trying to compare taking the Express or Connect into the city vs using a car service from airport to the flat where I'm staying."
W/o knowing where the flat is, its impossible to tell you if that makes any sense (likely not though)
"The flat is .6 of a mile from the nearest tube station"
Which tube station. Couldmake a HUGE difference.
"but I don't know the neighborhood."
If you tell us where the flat is we can offer MUCH better advice - And give you some idea of the neighborhood. No need to keep it a secret . . . -
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Details of tariffs for London taxis can be found here
There is no minimum distance but a minimum charge of £2.40.
There is an extra charge of £4 for journeys made between 20:00 on 24 December and 06:00 on 27 December
...and if you soil the taxi (!) you can be charged up to £40 - fascinating -
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crepes - given the length of your flight, the luggage issues, and the problem of getting to your flat at the other end, I'd go for the airport pick up with a cab service.
they could stop off on the way at a supermarket so you can get in some provisions - Flanner's excellent advice notwithstanding, you don't want to be schlepping round the shops after a 24 hours trip. -
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And if you know your location, it might be worth checking what time your nearest Tesco/Sainsburys/Morrisons/Waitrose/M&S closes, as many shops do shut early on Xmas Eve (like 3-4pm). There will still be small convenience stores open, but the range in these is obviously much more limited than the larger stores.
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Oh, on the point of small distances, it is against Taxi Law (yes, such a thing exists) for a black taxi to refuse to take anyone short distances. The relevant bit of law:
"A taxi driver is under a duty to drive the hirer of his taxi to any place within the
Metropolitan Police District or the City of London not exceeding 12 miles from the
place where he was hired; or more than 20 miles in respect of a journey which begins
at Heathrow Airport, London, or for any period up to one hour from the time when he
was hired."
People take the taxi law very seriously and would think nothing of reporting a taxi driver for refusing a fare, so taxi drivers hardly ever flout the rules. It's one of the reasons our black taxis are, quite honestly, the best in the world. -
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People take the taxi law very seriously and would think nothing of reporting a taxi driver for refusing a fare, so taxi drivers hardly ever flout the rules. It's one of the reasons our black taxis are, quite honestly, the best in the world.>>
Kate - IME some drivers get round it by cruising around with their lights off - they may stop but if they don't fancy the fare, they can then legitimately refuse to take you.
by which time the cab with its light on has gone sailing by! -
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>>Kate - IME some drivers get round it by cruising around with their lights off - they may stop but if they don't fancy the fare, they can then legitimately refuse to take you. <<
This is pretty rare, and is usually drivers on their way home looking for one last fare that's going in their direction. Hardly routine practice. -
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And why not order your groceries on line before getting on your flight from the comfort of your own home and have it delivered for a time after you know you'll be in the appartment - that way no schlepping at all!
Sainsburys, Tescos and Witrose will all deliver...
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Rather off topic. My daughter tripped over a kerb in Holborn and crashed into a wall, blood everywhere. A black cab driver scooped up the remains, drove her to A and E and refused payment.
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"IME some drivers get round it by cruising around with their lights off - they may stop but if they don't fancy the fare, they can then legitimately refuse to take you"
This does happen sometimes late at night - I have found that you have a better chance of stopping a taxi when their light is off when you're female and appear to be alone. They will say that they're on their way home - but if your destination is not too far away, they will take you.
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>> I have found that you have a better chance of stopping a taxi when their light is off when you're female and appear to be alone.<<
For the sake of absolute clarity, only try this with genuine taxis, not the kind of people in any old car who stop and hiss "Taxi?" at you. They may just be out to earn some money outside the rules, but they may well have more nefarious intentions in mind:
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Thanks to you all - much food for thought.
flanner - the tip comment was about Paris taxi drivers, not London cabbies - they've always been great, as others here have given evidence of.
Dr DoGood, there's a Morrison's within spitting distance of the flat. I called them a couple of weeks ago about pre-ordering and they said they have no provision for online ordering. Must go into the store and fill out a form and pay deposit. Didn't try Tesco or Waitrose bc honestly, I didn't think a big chain would offer something like that on such a busy day. I may ring them up.
annhig, I must admit I never thought of asking the car service to stop by a grocery. Great idea, that.
Again, thanks everybody. Fodorites always have been and always will be the best!
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The Wolves lost to Central Oklahoma 29-10, bounced back to defeat Truman State 39-12 before falling to Augustana 25-15.
Right now we're kind of learning a little bit about ourselves as a dual team and what we need to do to be successful, said Northern coach Pat Timm.
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A very solid racing game with an extremely addictive track editor, only let down by its forgettable soundtrack.
So, we�re at that time of the year the kids are out of school and summer is in the air. Normally the summer is generally devoted to the game shows such as E3 and Leipzig leading to a drought of new game releases as we wait pensively for the overwhelming slew of games during the autumn and winter months. Back in the twilight of May Race Driver: GRID was released for PC/Xbox360/PS3 and was praised by reviewers and currently holds an 87/100 on metacritic.com but will the DS port hold up against its home console sibling?
Before I delve into the world of Race Driver: GRID DS I would like to point out here and now that although the game has been rated 3+ by the PEGI it is not suitable for this age classification. The game has copious amounts of text that stretch across both screens at times and most of the single player events require you to be able to read what the challenge entails. For this reason if you are a parent looking for a suitable game for your young child I cannot recommend this title.
Right with that out of the way onto the game. GRID DS sports �37 licensed tracks + 29 licensed vehicles� All spread out across three areas around the world. The game works on the principle of the more races you win and the more �medals� you get that will in tern determine what gets unlocked such as tracks and challenges. The game has many and I stress many different types of challenges that can be unlocked, anything from break tests to racing up and down a mountain in Japan is all there, I particularly liked the �survival� challenges where you were given a head start and then chased by an AI opponent, if the AI caught you, you lost. I did not however like the time trials as I found some of the set times you had to reach in order to get 3 medals a little unfair when compared to how easy it is to get three medals in a regular race.
The game also has an online multiplayer mode which was dead at time of writing but it also has multi cart play for you and up to three of your friends. As with all multi cart games the experience is watered down, in this case only Milan, Detroit and Donington Park race tracks are available to play though. You can arrange the tracks in any order or even just race the same track three times by selecting which track you want to race and when you want to race it to make your own custom mini GP. The download from DS to DS was rather quick but the actual load time for races was a little long for my tastes.
Now onto driving the core element of the game. Well its good news as the driving and feel of the cars is solid throughout. Most racing games today on 360/PS3 utilise the trigger buttons to control acceleration but since the DS does not have trigger buttons A and B are default for acceleration and stopping. I found it awkward being asked to control a racing game in a manner that hasn�t been done since last generation so I immediately looked in the options for a solution. Thankfully the control scheme can be changed to make the shoulder buttons control your acceleration and braking making the game feel more comfortable and the cars more controllable, why this control scheme wasn�t the default escapes me.
One other little detail I liked was that every car handles differently, some have better grip while others have good acceleration though in a race you don�t really choose which car you drive as much as you only pick its colour, later on however there is the option to customise the last selectable car, but this can only happen once you have beaten enough races and earned the correct customisation packs. When you crash on the game you take damage in the form of a set of symbols next to map on the bottom screen, each symbol represents a different part of the overall car and when they reach red they pretty much stop working, I did like when the steering takes a reasonable amount of damage the car will swerve to one side forcing you to correct yourself constantly.
The game also has �intelligent opposition� meaning the AI cars you race against will simply act more intelligent than they would if they didn�t have this feature. Personally I found that if I could get in 1st place within the first ten seconds I would remain there until the end of the race or if I couldn�t get in first place right away then the other cars would simply constantly crash into me forcing me off the track leaving me in last place. Personally it felt a little unbalanced as once I realised I could win by simply getting ahead very early on took away some of the challenge from most of the race modes. One race mode where this little trick didn�t work was when you and all your opponents race the same car, trying to get ahead when you can both do the same maximum speed can be frustratingly difficult leaving only drifting at high speed around corners the only way to get ahead.
One of the big selling points of this game is the ability to design your own tracks. This ability extends into the single player mode where you�ll be asked to design tracks as challenges. The design interface for creating a track is extremely simple, all you have to do is select what track piece you want and tap it down with the stylus or if you get bored with that there is always free draw mode where you literally draw a track out using the stylus as a pen. All commands in this mode are done using the stylus. Everything is customisable, you can lower the track, raise the track, control the lighting, the weather you can even draw little decals and adverts for billboards. Some definite thought has gone into this which shows in its unholy addictiveness as I found after spending many hours just tinkering, wondering what would make the perfect track and testing it out, making roads into cliffs so the cars would fly over them, it is truly a unique experience.
It does however have a few drawbacks, in the single player mode you will be asked on several occasions to build a track in a very confined space, an object you place cannot be rotated until it is placed so if you want to put a piece down but it�s facing the wrong way you�ll have to place it on top of what you have already done thus erasing all your hard work that just so happens to be underneath it, it�s not so bad but it still annoys me a little.
One feature which is very cool and will no doubt make the watered down single cart multiplayer experience seem lame and just well rubbish is the ability to share your race track creations with your friends if they all own a copy of the game. Personally I love this idea because even when the game has been completed and you and your friends get sick of the stock tracks there is the possibility of creating thousands of new tracks, all you�re really limited to is a little imagination.
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Sweet! when is part 2 coming?
No idea, check youtube from time to time
that was awosme!
Wow, that was really well done! I thought the antics of the AT-ST were kind of unnecessary, but beyond than that, I'm really looking forward to part 2.
decent cgi, and special fx for a fan film but to much humor for my taste
All three parts are posted..I just watched the whole thing.
Honestly, I think the trailers hyped it up a bit...I felt it could have gone without the comedics.
I've been waiting for this for ever, thanks for the heads up.
Not bad ..... I found this as well
Great sound track but a bit short.
Does anyone have a link to part 3?
I agree, It would have been so much better without the comedy and the opening floating text.
But not bad after all of that..
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Lewis is an idiot and shameless race hustler who can barely speak English. He should worry more about his hometown being the capital of child prostitution and should worry about the daily shootings and murders in da hood ( South West ATlanta, aka da SWAT, cuz dat where da SWAT team be at) Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Lewis is the one who said sharks still swim the waters of trading routes waiting for slaves to be thrown overboard.Rush ran this speech on his old TV show over and over.They´ve even invented a new criteria for the race card now. If you´re not an across the board black,like RGIII,then you fall in the category of being a cornball. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Mental and moral laziness and simple malice account for a great deal of the Left´s incorrigible racism. It´s just easier for them not to have to think, particularly when issues are difficult and complex. Racism is burned into their brains as a default explanation and excuse for just about everything. Those who have not enjoyed the self-righteous ease and certitude of this tactic cannot begin to imagine how gratifying it is. One is automatically on the side of the angels, knows beyond any doubt who the good guys and the bad guys are, and is the more morally exalted the angrier and nastier and more abusive one becomes towards the bad guys, i.e. anybody and everybody one disagrees with about politics. If racism did not exist, Leftists would have to invent it. The same applies to all the other isms. All are modes of fixation of belief, self-congratulation and outlets for the discharge of spleen and malice. But there is more. For the angrier and louder one is in his virtuous denunciations of racism et al., the more latitude he is allowed in the conduct of his "personal" affairs. Every kind of sexual, political, financial and felonious transgression is forgiven those who are brave and boisterous enough to shout slanders of racism and other -isms at the top of their lungs, everywhere, all the time, barely pausing for breath. Click Here if you Like this Comment 4 persons like this.
Lewis´s view of society is in the 60´s and he is still standing on the Edmund Pettis bridge. He will not ever go forward because racism and the threat of being called a racist is his bridge to power. Mumbles has a difficult time trying to form an intelligent thought as well as trying to articulate it. But he be a civil rights icon, you ´no. Click Here if you Like this Comment 2 persons like this.
The "race card" has been a powerful manipulative political tool, enabling politicians and members of the "favored group" to win power over their fellow Americans and extort billions (trillions?) of dollars in "reparations" and political/economic advantages such as "affirmative action" (race-based discrimination sanctioned by "the law"). Why would those who have profited so richly by this tool of political and monetary oppression give it up? It has become an intoxicating and addicting drug to the users. It will not be given up by those who crafted the strategy and those who profited from it. Only its victims can walk away from it, thus depriving it of its immoral power. Just say "No" to race-card manipulation. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
Spot on, Jonah. Tired is the word. The racists in the room - or racialists if you will - are the delusional liberals obsessed with using race to beat up on the Republicans. And guess what - it seems to work. Click Here if you Like this Comment 2 persons like this.
And more than justifiably proud Lucianne gets to watch her Jonah hit yet anudda one outta da park!Liberals are obviously still unaware their race card cupboard is bare. There's no card there. There's no longer even any there there. It's empty, just as are their arguments. The straws they continue to grasp at no longer exist."…the nation's first black president." Why do they continue to say that? He's the first half-black president, the first mulatto president. But, who cares anyway? I don't. Do you? Why do they care? When will they come to the conclusion that it's just not important? Actually never was.The race card is tired. So, Liberals, Progressives… whoever you are… inasmuch as your race card is tired, give it a rest. Permanently! Click Here if you Like this Comment 3 persons like this.
Bravo Jonah for this article. Jonah must have read my many comments in which I´ve stated that the subject has "worn thin" with many Americans and is wearing thin more and more every day.Personal story but relevant to the article. Years ago, 1967 to be exact, when I was interviewed for a teaching position (West of Detroit but close enough for Detroit attitudes to have some relevance), the principal asked me how I felt about black people. At first I couldn´t believe my ears that someone was asking me such a question. I just remember saying something to the effect that "they are people" and thinking why would I think anything else?Sadly, I found out once I was hired. The school was infested with Libs, hired by this same weak, whiny white guy. The Lib teachers were proponents of excusing the black kids from their responsibility to learn. If the black kids misbehaved, it was generally treated more softly than the same misbehavior of white kids. The white kids picked up on that, too.Finally after three plus years of this nonsense I quit teaching.Now after several decades in the business world, I am back in the teaching profession as a substitute. I only substitute in the county schools which are minimally diverse. There aren´t any racial problems and the kids all appear to get along regardless of their racial heritage. Our part of the county has attracted many Asian families because of the schools. I was delighted last week to have two Iraqi girls in my class - they didn´t wear burquas. Click Here if you Like this Comment 2 persons like this.
#2, I think that was Major Owens. Click Here if you Like this Comment 6 persons like this.
This happens because Republicans have taken personal insults from these knuckle draggers for decades without reaction. There was a day when such insults would result in a calling out in one way or another; sometimes as a dual with swords or pistols. Now Republicans show no self respect and simply bow their head when such disrespectful lies are told on the floor of congress. These people are liars and they know it but bullying works for them politically so they keep doing it.Republicans should face a few assault charges and confront these liars with a punch to the jaw on the house or senate floor. They might gain a little self respect as well as a little respect from their constituents. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
The thing that makes me so very angry about all this is that these race hustlers are poisoning the youth to believe their lies and to support their own version of racism and victimology. They perpetuate the hate across generations.When will it stop? When we put Blacks in charge, so they can create more Detroits, Camdens, Newarks, and Washington DC´s?It has been 150 years since slavery was abolished, and almost 50 years since MLK. Slavery is long dead, and racism would be too if they only stopped playing the racial victim card.SHUT UP about imagined racism. Just SHUT UP ! Click Here if you Like this Comment 2 persons like this.
Jonah, truth be told I am sick and tired of every single lie coming from the America hating left.Not a one has been intellectually honest on any issue at all.It began with the 2006 mid terms and it´s become totally out of control. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
I think Major Owens is the one who had that ridiculous opinion about the island of Guam tipping over from the weight of too much population. Both Lewis and Owens have a Ph.D in stupid. Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.
What number one said! Lewis is a functional illiterate who can barely speak...He parrots the Liberal Race card and talking points...Half a moron. What a joke. Click Here if you Like this Comment 2 persons like this.
Unfortunately the wimpy Republicans have gone along to get along with the liberal Democrats who play the race card now for several decades.The biggest hit so far was the mortgage crisis that was caused by liberal politicians pushing unsustainable regulations and policies on the banks to give home mortgages to people, especially minorities, who could never make their loan payments, an irresponsible public policy that could have destroyed the US economy.When all that was happening the wimpy Republicans stayed silent, with some claiming to be "compassionate conservatives" supporting those bad loans.Absolutely the main reasons that the Republicans did that was first to avoid the liberal Democrats calling them out as racists, and second on the side to make as much money, along with Democrats, through all the criminal and irresponsible finagling that the banks did to get rid of as many bad loans as possible.Until the wimpy Republicans get a pair and respond to every race card played by the liberal Democrats, the race card situation will just get worse, as more and more low information voters are fooled and buy into the race card false claims. Click Here if you Like this Comment 4 persons like this.
#13 Guam reference was Hank JohnsonI didn´t like how jonah ended piece with saying "...are there racist in republican party... There are probably some in dem party too". I believe there are infinitely MORE racist in dem party! Click Here if you Like this Comment 1 person like this.


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"There will be food, wine, beer and dancing, so put on your boots and scoot on over," co-founder Vendla Stockdale said.
There will be brisket, brats, vegetarian chili, salads and desserts to eat. Bid on some excellent items in the silent auction. You'll be able to see Spirit Wind's new leased property. A DJ will play lots of tunes throughout the evening.
To find Spirit Wind , head north on Fourth Street off Bridge Street in downtown Hotchkiss. A sign will direct you to Powell Mesa. The road will wind to the west. The address is 34879 Powell Mesa Road.
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Spirit Wind started in 2006 and became a nonprofit in 2009. "We started with three horses, and now we have our land, our wild mustang program. We are just growing bigger and bigger. We have about 20 volunteers," Stockdale said. "I can't believe how far we have come in such a short period of time."
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