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Getting Crafty: Making Flannel Baby Blankets
I have been busy crafting baby blankets lately. I received one of these flannel blankets way back when our first child was born. So they have been around since the "dawn of flannel cloth;" I am sure. It was one of my favorites and I hope these blankets will be useful for those who have and will receive them from me.
Here is a tutorial in a sense. These blankets are easy to make, but there are some things I learned along the way that I wanted to share with you.
After purchasing your fabric, make certain you wash and dry it, so it will be shrunk before you put the pieces together. I purchased 1 yard each of two coordinating patterns in flannel. My fabrics were 44-45″ widths and would be nice for swaddling a babe. The one I was given was made with 60″ fabric and was nice to throw on the floor/grass for my babies to play on.
After pre-shrinking the fabric you want to square the pieces up. I did this by making sure the cut edge was square to the selvage edge and then folding on the diagonal and trimming off the extra length. Do this for both pieces and then place wrong sides together and making sure they are the same size. Trim if necessary.
You may sew on a serger, but since mine had a broken needle, I used my conventional machine. Choose an overcast stitch. I set mine to be 1/4 of an inch wide. I also shortened my stitch length a bit so I had good coverage of the raw edge. But don't make it too short or your edge will be stiff.
Since you are sewing two layers of flannel, I recommend that you lessen the pressure on the presser foot. I used my scrap piece and sewed a long edge to make sure that the material was not "walking." ( That means the top layer is stretching and getting longer than the bottom one.)
Start sewing in the middle of a side and stitch all the way around.
The last step is the crochet edging. For this I used a cotton string and a size 10 hook.
Fold once to turn under the edge stitching. Use a darning needle to make holes through the two layers of fabric and you will probably be able to make only 3 or 4 holes ahead of your stitching. I used the pattern on my material to help me evenly place the stitches along the edge. Space the stitches about 1/4 inch apart.
Starting the in the middle of a side make a loose single crochet all around the blanket, folding once and making holes for the stitches right along the edge of that overcast edge. Then, for the foundation round make two single crochet (sc) in each stitch around and join with a slip stitch.
The pattern I used for the next round was: **sc, ch 1, sk next sc, tr in next stitch, ch 5, sl stitch in 4th chain of the ch 5 (picot made), ch 1, tr in the same stitch with the previous tr, ch 1, sk next stitch, repeat from ** all the way around. Sl st to the beginning of the pattern round and tie off. Weave in your threads. I had to make an adjustment when I got close to the completion of the pattern round so my pattern would come out evenly, but it was not noticeable on my finished work.
There are many different edgings patterns to choose from on the internet or Pinterest. I made up this picot edging since the pattern repeat was based on a small number of stitches and didn't have large holes for little fingers or toes to be caught in.
Pattern abbreviations:
- sc = single crochet
- ch= chain
- tr=treble crochet
- sl st=slip stitch
- sk=skip
Arrogant and Critical
A while ago, I heard a report that arrogant people are often highly critical people. My immediate reaction was a prayer, "Lord, help me not to be so critical."
To my shame, I wanted to remove the effects my pride rather than my pride.
In this day where self-image is protected to the highest degree and where positive thinking is the "key to success," personal pride is an accepted outcome. In God's economy it is wrong to be proud and right to be humble. But what does that mean?
We are told not to think of ourselves "more highly than we ought (to think)." We are told that every good and perfect gift comes from God and is not by our own measures. We also know that He paid the ultimate price to reconcile us to Himself and that gives a human worth and value. For those who are saved, God, Himself is conforming us to the image of His Son and that is a good thing.
I love this quote from C.S. Lewis: "Humility is not thinking less of self, it is thinking of self less." Humility is the act involved when I know that life is not "all about me." Humility recognizes that God is the One deserving of glory and then happily glorifys Him.
There is a time and place for criticism. Certainly, we ought to judge ourselves and whether, we are doing right with a right attitude. There is a time for verbally encouraging our brothers and/or sisters in Christ to walk in the Spirit, but this speech is to be seasoned with grace. This criticism is the kind that edifys and it's purpose is to build up rather than tear down.
As I meditate on what He has done and is doing in me, I want give up my arrogance attitude and not just my critical spirit. I want to be like Jesus, who, although He was God, came to serve.
Just a few thoughts of mine, your comments are always welcome.
Books I Have Read Recently
The Bonesetter's Daughter – Amy Tan
I will be reading more of Amy Tan. Her voice and characters resonated with me. This is a story about identity, generation gaps, personal worth, and understanding one another. At its center it was about the redemption of a mother/daughter relationship before it was too late.
The Copper Beech – Maeve Binchy
I enjoyed this book, but I don't think it is the author's best work. This story is set in a small town in Ireland. The story is made up of the stories of children and adults connected to the village school. It takes a while before the stories start intersecting. It is warm and sweet with a satisfying ending.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
I have been wanting to read this both this book and Frankenstein since I read a world-view book (The Deadliest Monster – Baldwin) comparing these "monsters" several years ago. I have always loved Robert Louis Stevenson and was charmed into loving his work even more than before. This is not a horror story, but a treatise on humanity and the effects of evil on and within a person. The book is short but very thought-provoking.
The second part of my comparison of monsters. The use of language and vocabulary was beautiful and challenging. We have become such an "instant" society that we neglect great literature because of the work it entails to read it.
I don't watch scary movies or generally read this genre of book, but I am so glad I did. Mary Shelly creates sympathy for Frankenstein's monster by relating its sad story of being spurned by society and being alone. Shelly gives these circumstances as the reason for his murderous and revengeful ambitions. Although much longer than Jekyll and Hyde, it too, is a book that will have your thinking deeply on the origin of evil and a human's relationship to it while on this earth.
I don't know why I chose to read this book, but it seemed fitting after a summer of reading the previous two titles. :) I am surprised that I stuck with it long enough to finish it. But I had to know how it ended. I keep wondering if stories of vampires and werewolves originated here or if it was much earlier. I was surprised by the international cast of characters involved in the novel. I can't say that I recommend this, but I will say it was entertaining.
It seems the other genre I have been attracted to is World War II and the atrocity of the Holocaust. This is a biography of a Romanian Jewish boy. It is short and to the point. It details his time in 3 different concentration camps (Buna, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz) with his father. He waited 10 years after his release before attempting to chronicle this time in his life. It was most touching to me to read of his feelings that "God was dead" and yet God was so woven into his life that I expected him to realize that God is not dead. This title is the first part of a trilogy (NIght, Dawn, and Day) but it appears to be the only autobiographical one.
The Secret of Vigor – Shawn M. Talbott
I am always looking for health books that don't make promises that can't be kept. I like this book and agree with the author that health is a complex issue. The author promotes balance in diet, exercise, and stress management. He has a PhD in nutritional biochemistry, and several undergrad and grad degrees in sports medicine, fitness, and nutrition. After suffering for a year with plantar fascitis, I am glad I read this and because of some changes I made (mostly getting enough and better sleep) I am finding relief. I need to make some more health changes, but this is a start.
This is a children's mystery. It was fun to read. I am baffled by the work it must take for an author to come up with the mystery and then to incorporate the players and their dialogue into revealing just enough to keep you interested – but not so much that you figure the mystery out ahead of the characters. I think we might do this as a read-aloud later this year.
Nory Ryan's Song – Patricia Reilly Giff
This is a short book about the courage of a young girl during the Irish Potato Famine. It is sad and satisfying. This girl, in the midst of fear – of the landlords, and crisis – in the shortage of food and other necessities, and the work – in helping a sister keep a home for a brother and grandfather while her father is away; rises up and does what has to be done. She takes chances, learns skills, and scratches and clings to life for her family and community. She is a worthy heroine.
Number the Starts – Lois Lowry
My other Holocaust selection. This is a children's story. It is about the escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen through the Danish Resistance. The central character is a young girl, Annemarie Johansen. Annemarie's best friend Ellen Rosen and her family are in danger of being "re-located" by the Nazis. Through the ingenuity and connections with the underground movement, along with the attention to detail and bravery of Annemarie. the family is smuggled to safety.
Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes
This is our current read-aloud and I had forgotten how much I loved this story of a budding apprentice silversmith who was crippled and had to find another way of living. It is set during the very earliest days of the American Revolution. It is a story about overcoming obstacles, discerning the times, and standing for what you believe. Our young and arrogant hero must decide what he believes, about himself, his friends, and "family" and then he must act on those beliefs.
All in all, the summer has provided an interesting list of books and I think I even left out some. I have a huge stack of books to start and a few to finish. What are you reading these days?
Fall Recap
Ahh, my favorite season has arrived! Fall in Colorado is beautiful. True, this year's fall started out with atypical flooding and rain – but it still promises to be gorgeous. In my neck of the woods, we have dried out and are enjoying the warm, sunny days along with cool, crisp nights. There are those farther north who are not as fortunate and are still cleaning before they can even assess the damage. My prayers are with them.
We did get some water in the basement, but looking back it was a blessing for a few reasons: I hated that blue shag carpet that was thrown down in the storage room and is gone now. :) And the room needed a good thorough cleaning – which it got.
I had been busy canning and gardening – plum and peach jam, peaches, pears, and pear butter. I had high hopes for canning more beans and making salsa and spaghetti sauce – but the hail that came with the storms, stripped my garden bare. Even the carrots are done. There are a few tomatoes that are ripening on battered vines, but the only garden job left is the clean-up. I think I will purchase some tomatoes for soup and try my hand at jalapeno jelly yet.
We have started our school year, and soccer, and pre-season wrestling Which keep me shuttling players or giving up my car to my newest driver. Having a newly licensed driver will improve your prayer life! :) Congratulations and thanks David for driving me to my knees – again!
We did manage to get away for a long weekend of camping over Labor Day. We had planned to do more hiking and scouting of our hunting grounds, but ended up relaxing, reading, and fishing. Carl, the youngest convinced his older siblings to help him build a fort, but he lost interest a bit before they finished, grabbed a pole and headed for the lake. The others finished it.
Life continues to go by too quickly and I have to keep reminding myself to enjoy this busy family – because I have a tendency to get caught up with the details and am too busy too step back and count my blessings. So I will take this opportunity to remind you – along with myself – that we need to give thanks now for the trials and the pleasures, because tomorrow is not guaranteed. Enjoy!
Platform of Humility
A former pastor used to speak of a "having a platform," meaning place of honor where we could (and should) glorify God. He was referencing any talent, ability, or accomplishment that would allow an audience where you could give God the glory for that ability.
I agree with this. In this world where self-esteem is preached more than the gospel and where excessive pride in accomplishments is the norm, if we are given the opportunity to say "Thank you, God for the great work You have done! Thank you for allowing me to accomplish this feat, because You are my strength." We should let the world know that we are His – bought with a price to glorify God.
In my case, I find myself on the platform of humility rather than of grand accomplishment much more often. How can we glorify God in those "losing" situations? Wouldn't it still be true – that God is worthy of thanks in the midst of a trial and that He is still our strength?
Our response to not only good, but also the bad should be more similar. It should all be thankfulness and praise.
I have seen people call attention to financial need as if it were some seal of spirituality. I have seen those without need flaunt their status as if it were a sign of God's blessing upon them. Neither of these things is necessarily true.
Our eternal God doesn't "bless" with such temporary things. True, he provides for our needs and he provides the tools for His servants to carry out His wishes. Remember, every good gift is from Him.
Our ability to glorify Him in any and every situation has to do with our humble response to fame and fortune – or to infamy or loss. It lies in our faith that God is good, and that He has a purpose in taking us on a path that might involve either pain or great victory.
I don't understand why things happen the way they do, but I remember that His ways are not my ways and of this I am confident: He loves me with an everlasting love, evidenced by the giving of His own Son, and He will strengthen me to accomplish his will.
I will walk the path that You, O Lord, have set before me. I will learn to trust you more and more, and I will thank you in everything.
Garden: A Late Start is Better than Never
My garden that almost wasn't … I have been meaning to post about it for two weeks….. but better late than never, right?
The garden started in late February, when I gently poked my tender little seeds in an egg carton, then moved the seedlings into the newspaper origami pots I made. (That was a Pinterest idea that really worked! Yeah! The first website did not have clear instructions, but I kept looking until I found one that did. When transplanting, I ripped the newspaper off, instead of planting in the paper pots.)
When April rolled around we finally had snow – nearly every weekend in April, we had snow. When April gave way to May I was busy. And the more May days that passed, the more I considered not even planting a garden this year. After all, a garden takes work and I was not keeping up with my regular workload already. Besides, it was already so late.
I thought I might transplant the seedlings I started and call it good….. but I couldn't. So into the earth went the seedlings and then the seeds. The puppy promptly ate all the leaves off the cantaloupe and broke some tomatoes. Oh, well.
The pole beans are a bit disappointing – all "pole" and no bean yet, but still I hope. The cucumbers are blooming like crazy with itsy-bitsy little cukes on them. And I'll be picking jalapeno peppers soon.
The store was out of the largest bamboo supports for my tomatoes – so they were looking a bit neglected. But while I was visiting my grandson last week, my husband and David rigged a support trellis for them! I usually get nervous when Paul tells me he worked in my garden. ;)
I had planned on planting a perennial herb garden this year, but since its location is currently being used as a track where Muddy runs, I decided to wait another year and put my herbs in pots for now. Their abundance is being dried and stored. It is so easy to dry herbs and flowers in Colorado's low humidity. Just wash, bundle with rubber bands, and hang upside down.
So while other gardeners are enjoying their produce, I am patiently waiting. But I am glad I planted. I guess it shows a little bit of faith in the future; a promise of reaping after planting. So, how are your gardens growing?


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At a time when politicians—particularly members of Congress—are almost universally reviled and blind partisanship seems to dictate the fate of every piece of legislation, one U.S. senator stands out as a unique voice.
Bernie Sanders has been a senator from Vermont since 2006. It's hard for him to be caught up in partisanship: He's one of only two U.S. senators who identify as independent. Although he caucuses with the Democrats, Sanders refuses to run as one and regularly chides them for abandoning the working class. He has never been much of a party man. When he was first elected to the House of Representatives, in 1990, he refused any party affiliation, making him the longest-serving independent member of Congress in American history.
His views are clear and differ radically from those of his Republican colleagues and often sharply from those of his closest allies, the Democrats. He describes himself as a democratic socialist and often praises Scandinavian-style social democracy. Fox News thinks he's crazy, and he makes MSNBC look timid.
The 72-year-old Brooklyn-born Sanders moved to Vermont in 1968 after graduating from the University of Chicago and spending time on a kibbutz in Israel. Always a leftist activist, he became a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. That led him to politics, though he failed to win early races for the Senate and the governorship.
It wasn't until 1981 that he won his first office, mayor of Burlington, Vermont's largest city, by a total of 10 votes. His four terms were full of his trademark liberal ideas—low-cost housing, reining in the excesses of the local cable-TV operation and forming the Vermont Progressive Party. He has also taught at Harvard and at Hamilton College in New York.
Of course Vermont is one of the bluest states in the country (it gave us onetime presidential candidate Howard Dean), and Sanders is a hero to locals. He won reelection last year with 71 percent of the vote, and his approval ratings make him one of the most popular senators in the country. Nationally, he gained notoriety for his views on gun control (pro), foreign intervention (anti) and, most vocally, his passion for the plight of the middle class and the sorry state of the American economy.
We sent noted economics writer Jonathan Tasini, who previously interviewed Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman for Playboy, to sit down with Sanders for a series of discussions in Vermont and Washington. Tasini reports: "I was warned ahead of time: Bernie doesn't do personal revelations. No question about it; he is the anti–Bill Clinton. The most extensive anecdote about Sanders the person came from a ticket agent at the Vermont airport. When I mentioned what I was doing in the area, she smiled and said, 'Oh, we love Bernie,' and proceeded to tell me how Sanders had helped her boyfriend, a veteran with a back injury who was having a hellish time getting the Department of Veterans Affairs to approve his medical costs. 'By the time they were done, they were on a first-name basis,' she said.
"After spending numerous hours with Senator Sanders, I came to understand why he resists suggestions from his followers that 2016 might be the right time for him to make a run for the White House. It's not that he worries about losing. Although he wants to influence the debate, his hunger for power isn't so insatiable that he would debase himself in the arena of what poses as serious political debate in America."
PLAYBOY: You have said, "There are people working three jobs and four jobs, trying to cobble together an income in order to support their families." Has the middle class died forever?
SANDERS: Well, I certainly hope it's not forever, but one of the untold stories of our time is the collapse of the American middle class. From the end of World War II until 1973, we saw an expanding middle class, with people's incomes going up. Since that point, and especially since the Wall Street–driven financial crisis, you've seen a real collapse. Since 1999 median family income has gone down $5,000. Real unemployment, counting people who have given up looking for work or who are working part-time when they want to work full-time, is more than 14 percent. More than 14 percent! You're seeing millions of people working longer hours for lower wages. When I was growing up in a lower-middle-class family, the gold standard for blue-collar workers was union manufacturing in the automobile industry. As the big three have been rehiring, they're hiring people at something like $14 an hour, half the wages. The U.S. has 46 million people living in poverty today. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.
PLAYBOY: How do you explain that?
SANDERS: We live in a hypercapitalist society, which means the function of every institution is not to perform a public service but to make as much money as possible. There's an effort to privatize water, for God's sake. I suppose somebody will figure out how to charge you for the oxygen you breathe. The function of health care, in a rational world, is to make sure every person, as a right, has access to the health care they need in the most cost-effective way possible. That is not the nature of our health care system at all. The function of this health care system is for people in the system—whether it's insurance companies, drug companies, medical specialists—to make as much money out of it as possible. In five minutes one could come up with ways to make the system simpler and more cost effective.
PLAYBOY: Has this hypercapitalism accelerated lately?
SANDERS: People have lost sight of America as a society where everyone has at least a minimal standard of living and is entitled to certain basic rights, a nation in which every child has a good-quality education, has access to health care and lives in an environmentally clean community, not as an opportunity for billionaires to make even more money and avoid taxes by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands. Can you argue that the era of unfettered capitalism should be over? Absolutely. Does this system of hypercapitalism, this incredibly unequal distribution of wealth and income, need fundamental reform? Absolutely it does. You have the entire scientific community saying we have to be very aggressive in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Yet you're seeing the heads of coal companies and oil companies willing to sacrifice the well-being of the entire planet for their short-term profits. And these folks are funding phony organizations to try to create doubt about the reality of global warming.
PLAYBOY: Aren't they just taking care of their shareholders?
SANDERS: Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits. I regard that as just incomprehensible. Incomprehensible. And because of their power over the political process, you hear a deafening silence in the U.S. Congress and in other bodies around the world about the severity of the problem. Global warming is a far more serious problem than Al Qaeda.
PLAYBOY: Today, people who don't have a union, pensions or health care feel resentful of those who do have those benefits.
SANDERS: That's part of the Republican plan. It has worked very well. This is not a new idea. Think back 50 years, to the 1950s and the 1960s. The lowest-paid white workers in America were where? They were in Mississippi, in Alabama. How did those companies get away with paying them such low wages? They played them off against black workers, who were even worse off. Then over the years you play immigrants against native-born people; you play straight people against gay people. Rather than say, "Firefighters have a halfway decent health care program, and we have to make sure you get one as good as theirs," Republicans are pretty clever in playing one group against another. When you have a president of the United States who is talking about cuts in Social Security and veterans' programs, who was willing earlier on to give continued tax breaks to billionaires and unwilling to go after huge corporate loopholes, people sit there and say, "Both parties are working for the big-money interests."
PLAYBOY: Ten years ago jobs were going abroad to low-wage countries. Now jobs are coming back because we're seen as an even lower-wage country.
SANDERS: There's a quote I can dig up for you from some guy saying General Electric can expand in the United States because the wages are now competitive with the rest of the world. You can now hire workers in America for wages so low it becomes a good investment for American companies. That is pathetic. The goal of all those trade agreements was, in fact, to shut down plants in America. We have lost almost 60,000 manufacturing plants and millions of good-paying jobs in the past 10 years. Products go to China, Vietnam and elsewhere, are manufactured and brought back to the United States, not only causing unemployment in this country but pushing wages down. That's what corporate America has wanted, and it has significantly succeeded.
PLAYBOY: You've said that today the wealthiest 400 individuals in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people.
SANDERS: One family, the Waltons, who own Walmart, has more wealth than the bottom 40 percent. The top one percent today owns 38 percent of all wealth. Take a wild and crazy guess as to what the bottom 60 percent own.
PLAYBOY: Probably five percent.
SANDERS: No, 2.3 percent. When we were growing up and read about oligarchic countries in Latin America and elsewhere, did you ever think that in the United States one percent would own 38 percent of the wealth and the bottom 60 percent only 2.3 percent? As part of the budget debate, I brought forth an amendment in committee. I looked at my Republican friends and said something like "I know you've been interested in welfare reform. So am I, and I want to give you the opportunity right now to take on the biggest welfare cheat in the United States of America." In state after state, Walmart employees are on Medicaid, they're on food stamps, they're in publicly subsidized housing. I said, "If we can raise the minimum wage and get a living wage for these people, we're going to save billions of dollars. The wealthiest family in this country, the Walton family, is getting welfare from the taxpayers of this country. Let's end that." You'll be shocked to know I didn't get any votes from the Republicans on that.
PLAYBOY: You make the U.S. sound like a banana republic in which a handful of families control all the economic and political power.
SANDERS: Yes, it is. In more technical economic terms I would call it an oligarchy. You have an economy where a very few people control a large part of the wealth. You have an economy where the top six financial institutions have assets equivalent to two thirds of the GDP of the United States, more than $9 trillion. That's economic control. On top of that, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance, Citizens United, said to these folks, "Hey, so you own the economy. Fine. Now we're giving you the opportunity to own the political process." The other part of the story is what happens on the floors of the Senate and the House. If there's a tough vote in the House or the Senate—for example, legislation to break up the large banks—people might come up and say, "Bernie, that's a pretty good idea, but I can't vote for that." Why not? Because when you go home, what do you think is going to happen? Wall Street dumps a few million dollars into your opponent's campaign.
PLAYBOY: Beyond Citizens United, has the Supreme Court become too partisan?
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The United States needs Bernie Sanders. Great interview!
Well, then I guess that entitles you to government benefits. I am a vet of the Gulf War, and everyone in my family are vets, Vietnam, WW II, and fighting currently. That is why I piss on the likes of the Teabaggers who hate out government, our Commander-in-Chief, and seek to destroy our way of life. Maybe you should consider it if you want to keep getting that check. Those are the facts. Too many died to defend this country for one of our own to be defending seditionists and seperatists.
wow. you are a very simple minded person who lives in a world of hyperbole so as to make her world view correct. if i thought voting was important, i'd ask you not to vote.
And you were on the PLAYBOY site because..........?
With all due respect, you sound like a complete twit. Playboy is the gateway to sex trafficking and torture? Playboy is a porn magazine? You sound like a delusional bible thumping old maid who thinks sex means missionary with the lights off and a nude body is regarded as pornographic and sinful. Playboy has done more for blacks, gays and sexual freedom rights than any other magazine publication in the world, so grow up.
It's time for Bernie to remind folks that closing loopholes equates to cutting spending. Tis true. It's a twofer. You cut spending and increase revenue at the same time.
What a load of booby cue garbage. We all know he's as left wing as a plane with no right rudder. Smashed apples under the bonnet to anyone who thinks he's the real mountain ranger. U get me?
And this is what a useful idiot looks like, ladies and gentlemen. Let's give him a round of applause.He votes. Do you?
Chopped garlic should cure that post-coital bunny-eared political bias. Timber Chippers!
Keep up the fight Bernie. You are a wonderful man and a gift to the working families in America. You inspire me to be more active on the issue of inequality, I have become more active, and there is more to come.
Spoken like a true fascist. What ever happened to by the people for the people.
It can't be bought it has to be earnt by cleanin' windows. As far as the strength of the rabbits claw goes I'd say congress is about as tough as a worker ant's jaw on sedative. Ain't gonna be no flow from those old croons when the finger of fate slides further beneath the door. All a game they say anyway to play and come what may it ain't gonna keep our trade smarts at bay. Tough call!
all of us middle class Americans simply have been pissed on from reaganomics trickle down bs
And the evidence for your postulation? Bernie cited statistics to back up his assertions. Where is the evidence to support your hypotheses?
As evidenced in the Gizzer's statement and the copious philosophic spooge espoused by fdfdf wtf, when people like Bernie Sanders put forth a reasoned argument supported by facts and statistics (and it happens to conflict with the worldview they hold), the only response is incoherent gobbledeegook.
Nah its the same you're just chonky
Actually, a plane with no right rudder would tend to bank left, that is, be more right winged...just sayin'
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You raise a good point, Diana. I'm guessing It's just a good idea to get the message out and to reach all kinds of people.
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The mans got a sharper tongue than a polished diamond blade soaked in Venezualan artificially flavored tabasco sauce. But he's our teddy bear so let's not forget that! Vermont ahoy!!!
It's too bad he thinks it's okay to hang out with Playboy. They are the gateway to sex trafficking, torture and destruction of families. How can anyone support a politician when he's in a PORN magazine??
We have the best Congress money can buy.
What statistics do you "believe" are off?
Spoken as a true retiree who has not had to live in this economy, but entered the work force before reagonomics pissed all over us. Enjoy just living off the fat of your retirement and social security at our expense. The "I got mine, screw you" generation will be remembered as one that lived off the 'dole' of the greatest generation.
T.T I want to meet Bernie and give him a hug. I feel like he's a tired old grandpa to the country. Trying and trying to help the whole country and he's only able to help one tiny little corner of it. Vermont you guys sure are lucky.
Hopscotching for butterscotch, that's my motto. Bernie's flow is immaculate, much like the 66 chicago bears. If hives could fly, honey would rain down and smother his buttocks.
Excuse me, but Playboy is the gateway to free speech and consensual sexual relationships between adults. What you are suggesting is inappropriate and downright wrong.
I love me some Bernie! There are some like him coming up locally and on the state level. Let's look for them to carry the torch, but I so hope Bernie stays with us for a long time to come.
Yeah, that's right, they ought to displace you with somebody from India that makes 5 cents an hour!
And yes, I did see your photo. Playboy ain't what they were when you all were boys. Time to take the blinders off!
Our problem is fascism.
Bernie is a backstabbing tool of the political establishment. Vermonters who follow local politics know that he is a favorite of pro-military republicans in our state and the whole 'pro-middle class' thing is just to cover up his real agenda: putting money in the pockets of large VT businesses at the expense of new Americans and the low & middle income Vermonters.


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In a stunning move, the best basketball player on Earth, LeBron James, has decided to return to his hometown team, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In a stunning move, the best basketball player on Earth, LeBron James, has decided to return to his hometown team, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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It's all really simple, man
28 06 10 - 16:21A liberal reader writes:
If anyone is truly the oppressor in modern politics, it's Conservatives.
* They want to tell you with whom, when and why you can have sex.
* They want to keep all the fun drugs illegal.
* They want to ignore or continue the inequality of the races.
* They won't let two people in love marry if they're gay.
* They won't make recycling mandatory and save our planet.
* They want to perpetuate the giant killing machine that is our military and arms sales worldwide.
* They want us to take Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck seriously.
Conservatives bring nothing but death and suffering. Let's split up America and send the Conservatives to Bible-belt Heaven, a.k.a. Alaska, where they can be ruled by Sarah Palin until the end of their days.
Yep, it's really that simple. You know what our problem is?
You got it. That's right, oppression. Since the dawn of time, some group of idiots somewhere has been oppressing us. It's not our fault things are going badly (under the surface, because on the surface they're going great -- check out the Xbox and the Ford Excursion).
You probably don't know this. But let me enlighten you: All that pollution, political corruption, lack of exploring the stars, miserable boring jobs and ugly cities, angry bitter people who scam you and then blame you for ripping them off, the endless power games where someone has to feel smarter and better than others for trivial game... that's all a result of oppression.
It's not that we are disorganized, and therefore easy to oppress, or that because we are mostly personally disorganized our lowest common denominator is a low standard. Nope. We're the good guys -- the problem is the oppressors! And they're stupid and evil, but somehow they're winning, even though we're enlightened and good.
Oppressors bust us by pretending to have standards. They think one way of doing things is better than others. But man, if you think about it and deconstruct it, they're all just choices! What does it matter? If you make one or the other, you'll just be fine today and tonight. Don't worry about tomorrow, it's not cool. There is no right way of doing anything and history is not a lesson.
There's lots of ignorant people out there who will deny that the problem is oppression. They say that most people are personally disorganized and morally deficient, therefore plunging society into constant stupidity, crime, incompetence and bitterness. Even more, they say that groups of the incompetent band together to tear down any who might rise above. But that doesn't make any sense to me, so I've gotta say that we'd be better off without the oppressors.
It's really simple, man.
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Davide Giusti has had to withdraw from his role as Fadinard in Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze by Nino Rota due to illness. The role will now be sung by Fillipo Adami who performed the role in 2011 at the Teatro comunale di Firenze (Florence).
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Born in Fiesole (Florence) in 1980, he graduated at the Conservatorio "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence. Acclaimed in bel canto repertoire and as a Rossinian specialist, Filippo has established an international career, performing regularly on the world's most prestigious concert stages and opera houses including Teatro alla Scala, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro, Staatsoper in Berlino, Barbican Center in London, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Festival Mozart de la Coruña, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, De Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, Opéra Royal de Wallonie de Liège, Novaya Opera in Moscow and Rossini in Wildbad Festival. Filippo has also previously worked with conductors such as Alberto Zedda, Alan Curtis, Andrea Marcon, Richard Bonynge and Michele Mariotti.
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Dear Paul,
I know the FOXHALL "DEFENSIVE STRATEGY" in bear markets is made up of (1) bonds, (2) foreign currency funds to offset the falling U.S. Dollar and (3) oil, energy, metals, mining, agriculture and other commodities and basic materials funds. BUT, OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS COMMODITIES HAVE DECLINED PRECIPITOUSLY. AGRIBUSINESS COMMODITY FUNDS are down this month 6%. STEEL FUNDS are down over 9% and METALS AND MINING FUNDS are down over 12%. It is hurting your FOXHALL performance. I thought commodities were supposed to go up when the stock market was going down.
IN THE LONG RUN THAT IS HOW IT WORKS! Oil and other commodities have rocketed up over the past few years and the basic LAW OF GRAVITY tells us this cannot go on forever.
Just to put everything in perspective, over the past 12 months from July 3, 2008, the FOXHALL CAPITAL GLOBALHARD ASSETS STRATEGY'S performance is up approximately +23%, while, at the same time, the S&P 500 INDEX is down almost -14% for the same period. That is substantial outperformance of the overall stock market, but it is also COMPLETELY UNSUSTAINABLE over the long term. Eventually there had to be a correction. This is simply a healthy retrenching and a way of purging speculation out of the system.
Through the first half of this year, crude oil prices surged 46%! From April to June, oil prices went up 38% and gained 10% in just the month of June. If that trend had continued, we would have had $300 a barrel oil by December and $9 a gallon gasoline prices by the end of this year. That trend wasn't going to continue at that rate of growth!
Besides oil, many other commodities rallied to unrealistic highs this year. Corn jumped 21% in June; gained 28% in the second quarter and surged 60% since the first of the year.
Among precious metals, since the first of January, gold jumped 11%, silver is up 17% and copper rose 28%.
A week ago a major business magazine reporter called me and said, "As part of your FOXHALL CAPITAL "DEFENSIVE STRATEGY" you are heavily over-weighted in all of your investment portfolios in commodities and basic materials. Yet two months ago you told me to expect a stock market correction in oil, gold, steel and even the U.S. dollar. If you knew all of this was coming several months ago, WHY DIDN'T YOU SELL OUT OF THOSE INVESTMENTS?"
I explained to this reporter that the FOXHALL CAPITAL'S INVESTMENT DISCI-
PLINE AND INVESTMENT PROCESS followed long-term trends and that we were not "day traders."
I said to him, "What are the key longterm trends over the next 18 months? This is the question every investor has to ask himself. Which investments will make you sleep well at night knowing that in the long-run, these investments are probably the only way to make money until this bear market/recession is over? Every investor needs to ask, what should my "DEFENSIVE INVESTMENT STRATEGY" be?
Since 1945 the United States has had a bear market/ recession every 5-to-8 years and the average drop in the stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 INDEX, over those average two years was 34.1% according to USA TODAY. In the last bear market/recession from 2000 to 2002, the S&P 500 INDEX dropped 49.1% from top to bottom.
If history is any guide, this current bear market/recession will last until late 2009 to early 2010. The FEDERAL RESERVE released a report some months ago that said that the "worst abuses" of the adjustable rate mortgage scandal took place over the past 18 months. Since most of those ARMs had a 2-year, 0% interest rate, most of those "most abusive ARM's" haven't even "triggered" yet. The FED predicts the peak of home foreclosures will come in late 2009 and early 2010.
I agree with Warren Buffett, when he said in a recent FOX NEWS interview that he believed this bear market/recession would be "deeper and longer than a lot of TV pundits were predicting."
As part of the FOXHALL CAPITAL "DEFENSIVE STRATEGY," we believe that a substantial component of bonds is a key part of a DEFENSIVE INVESTMENT STRATEGY. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF BONDS IS TO PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT PRINCIPAL OVER THE LONG-TERM.
Despite their recent "healthy" and "overdue" correction, the long-term trend for commodity prices is UP!
Yes, there will be periods when commodity prices shoot up like rockets and there will also be the inevitable "normal" corrections like we are seeing now, BUT over the next 10 years, commodity prices will continue to go up over the long-term.
It is simply the LAW OF SUPPLY & DEMAND. China, India and several other govern-
ments in Asia have budgeted over $3 Trillion (that's Trillion with a T) over the next 10 to 15 years. Never before in the history of the world have we seen this level of infrastructure spending over a 10 to 15 year period.
China alone is building 45 nuclear power plants, another 50,000 miles of super-highways, almost 1,000 miles of a massive waterway system to bring water from the south of China to the north (many engineering experts say this may be the largest single infrastructure project in history). China is also building or rebuilding scores of new ports, building or rebuilding at least 8 hydro-electric dams and in order to build housing for the 5 million Chinese left homeless because of the recent earthquakes, the government has to build a new city bigger than the size of New York and all of it's suburbs.
After the engineering studies are complete, investors actually know how much steel, copper, concrete and other basic materials and commodities will be needed to complete these projects.
The world has never seen infrastructure spending like this! All of these Asian countries have the surplus U.S. dollars to complete these projects, and these projects WILL BE completed because they create millions of jobs and more importantly, infrastructure creates the foundation for these counties to move to the next level of economic development.
As part of the FOXHALL CAPITAL "DEFENSIVE STRATEGY," we believe that a substantial component of commodity and basic materials funds are crucial. In the long-term, commodities do usually run counter-cyclical to the stock market, so they are an integral part of a DEFENSIVE INVESTMENT STRATEGY.
However, from a long-term supply and demand perspective, commodities and basic materials will also be part of a long-term investment trend over the next 10 to 15 years because of the unprecedented infrastructure spending in Asia.
Since 2002, the U.S. dollar has fallen 40% against its major rival the euro. It dropped over 10% last year.
Just like commodities, the dollar may rally over the next few months. It is probably oversold at the moment. BUT THIS WILL JUST BE A SHORT-TERM CORRECTION.
In the long run, the U.S. dollar will continue to decline. We have a war in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have a congress of both Democrats and Republicans who continue to spend like there is no tomorrow. No one in Washington believes that the wars can be ended in any of the time frames promised in the primary debates. And no matter who is elected, either Senator McCain or Senator Obama, the deficit will continue to go up.
There are only two ways to deal with the U.S. government deficit. You can sell long-term U.S. government bonds to China and Saudi Arabia, etc. But they are no longer buying like they used to, because the bond yield doesn't even cover inflation and the U.S. government has a history of devaluing the dollar so that the money they get back in 15 or
30 years is less in "buying power" than the U.S. dollars they have now. Most of these governments think spending their U.S. dollars on their own infrastructure is a better investment than investing in U.S. government bonds.
If foreign governments do not buy up all of our bonds, then the only way for our government to fund the U.S. deficit is for the U.S. government to print more money. That is what the government is doing, and that is a major reason why the dollar continues to fall.
I do not know of a single economist who believes that any of the underlying fundamentals mentioned above can be reasonably turned around any time soon. That is why the long term trend in the U.S. dollar is going to continue to decline.
Even though gold and some foreign currency funds have dropped in recent weeks and the dollar has rallied, as part of the FOXHALL CAPITAL "DEFENSIVE STRATEGY" we will continue to hold asset classes like gold and foreign currencies, when it is possible, in order to hedge against what we believe is the long term decline in the U.S. dollar.
Over the trailing past 12 months, almost all of FOXHALL CAPITAL'S INVESTMENT
STRATEGIES have substantially out-performed the S&P 500 INDEX. At some point, there had to be a correction in the soaring prices of commodities as we have witnessed over the past few weeks.
We at FOXHALL CAPITAL strongly believe this correction in commodities was "GOOD" and "LONG OVERDUE." We understand that the long-term trend in commodities, simply because of long-term trends in supply and demand, is up and we believe this short-term correction will end over the next few months.
There is no "PERFECT" investment strategy THAT ALWAYS GOES UP. If there were, everyone would use it. However, we at FOXHALL CAPITAL believe that our clients sleep well at night knowing that the FOXHALL CAPITAL DEFENSIVE STRATEGY is primarily invested in principal protecting bonds, "real assets" like oil, gold, steel, other precious metals and agricultural commodities, as well as funds that help protect your "buying power" as the U.S. dollar declines.
OVER ANY 3-YEAR PERIOD, SOME OF THESE FUNDS WILL CORRECT AND GO DOWN—sometimes substantially. However, we firmly believe at FOXHALL CAPITAL that the best way to protect your retirement savings and keep your long-term buying power in tact during a bear market/recession is through a diversified DEFENSIVE INVESTMENT STRATEGY of bonds, hard assets and non-U.S. currency funds.
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4:20am Wednesday 15th January 2014 in News By Peter Truman
Icy conditions led to a series of crashes as council chiefs blamed poor forecasting for not gritting the roads.
Sussex Police received 35 calls to crashes in West Sussex between 7am and 10am as temperatures plummeted yesterday morning.
West Sussex County Council said they decided not to grit the roads after the Met Office forecasted that temperatures would remain above zero.
A woman and her son suffered minor leg injuries after their car skidded on black ice outside Conies Farm on Maplehurst Road, near Horsham.
They were out of their car when a second vehicle collided with it, again having skidded on ice.
At least 10 vehicles were involved in separate crashes after coming to grief on sheet ice on the B2141 at Chilgrove, near Chichester.
Ice caused chaos on the dual carriageway B2070 London Road near Rake, on the Sussex-Hampshire border as five vehicles left the road and collided with trees and the central reservation.
On the B2133 Harbolets Road near Billingshurst three vehicles collided, leading to it being closed between its junctions with Broadford Bridge Road and the B2139 Coolham Road.
Emergency services attended as all three drivers were reported to have suffered minor injuries with sheet ice present.
A woman driving along Dunsfold Road near Plaistow was left with chest and abdominal pains and a man driving another vehicle suffered shock when their vehicles collided.
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It is not a lot to ask. Planning ?
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Unfortunately people are all to quick to blame someone else rather than blame their own lack of driving skills.
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Reminds me when I complained to WSCC a couple of years back about the lack of gritting on snow-covered roads when I had a lecture about not being able to see where gritters had been despite the clearest right turn evident towards Southwater off A272 near Buck Barn by a salt-depositing gritter and lack of salt on the main road west of said junction. Blithering bureaucrats!
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A retired farm worker died at home following a fall down the stairs, an inquest heard.
Colin Haines, 68, was found at the bottom of the stairs at his home in Chapel Way, Childrey, near Wantage, on October 17. His telephone was off the hook.
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The championship fight is now set for Bellator Fighting Championships welterweight tournament following the promotion's seventh event in a twelve part series earlier tonight at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Illinois.
The two men who were victorious in tonight's final four match ups that will meet sometime in the next five weeks with $100,000 and the BFC welterweight championship on the line are Omar De La Cruz and the gigantic 170-pound Lyman Good.
Here's how it all went down.
De La Cruz earned his spot in the championship round by stopping former UFC champion Dave Menne with an onslaught of strikes in the first stanza of their semifinal fight. Things weren't going too bad early on for the jiu-jitsu expert Menne as the fight went to the mat almost right away, but De La Cruz landed a devastating knee as the they were getting back to their feet that clearly rung Menne's bell.
Menne tried to recover, but De La Cruz was relentless with his attack, forcing the referee to call a stop to the main event bout at 3:19 of round one.
In the second final four bout, Lyman Good used his powerful frame to outstrike and out-position Jorge Ortiz on the ground for the majority of the first two rounds. Late in the second round though, the action was stopped so a cageside doctor could examine a cut on the head of Ortiz, and the official deemed "The Naked Man" unable to continue, handing Lyman Good his $50,000 payday and a spot in the tournament final opposite De La Cruz.
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Making her professional MMA debut was Kerry Vera, the wife of UFC light heavyweight Brandon "The Truth" Vera. She needed all three rounds but the former pro kick boxer outstruck and outlasted a very game Leslie Smith for the unanimous decision victory.
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Omar De La Cruz defeated Dave Menne via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
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Inv. No. 16242
50 × 38.1 cm
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner met his life partner of many years, Erna Schilling (1884–1945), in Berlin in 1912. Various portraits from the first years of their relationship show her striking features and severe pageboy hairstyle. In this reed pen drawing, however, Kirchner seems not so much interested in her characteristic appearance, nor in her gracefulness or charm, but rather in the state of her emotions. The long pen strokes make a rapidly executed and nervous impression, as do the small number of parallel curves with which he describes the slight inclination of the head. Agitatedly rubbed areas are used in the depiction of an eyebrow and the hair visible beneath the brim of her hat, which he has indicated with a few decorative squiggles. Her large, deep, dark eyes are lowered, giving them a look of resignation in contrast to the adjacent bundle of converging rays indicating her nose. The effect of her gaze as well as her firmly closed mouth – the narrow lips emphasized by two short lines one above the other – is to express a deep sadness. After employing the reed pen, above all to carry out the elements of the drawing essential for conveying the sitter's emotional state, Kirchner turned to the use of pencil to integrate the figure into the surrounding space in a way that softens the mood. The interplay between the concentrated impact of the pen drawing in blue-grey ink and the light silver-grey of the graphite gives the portrait an aura of melancholy.
We know that it was Kirchner himself who, at the time when he made this drawing, was causing great anxiety to those close to him. In 1915, like Max Beckmann, he had been released from military service in the First World War after a nervous breakdown, but he was still haunted by the fear of reenlistment. Successive treatments in sanatoria in Königstein im Taunus and in Berlin were followed in 1917 by an initial stay in Davos. Before settling permanently in the Swiss mountains, where he was to live for a greater part of his life than anywhere else, he spent ten months at the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen on Lake Constance in the autumn of 1917. Here efforts were made to improve his condition, though it was thought to be hopeless. It is tempting to interpret the sadness with which Erna is depicted in the portrait as a reflection of the artist's own state of mind as well.
The Nazi confiscation of works of so-called »degenerate art« in 1937 dramatically reduced the holdings in the Städel collection. This and other Kirchner drawings donated from the artist's estate, along with works of his from the Carl Hagemann Bequest, nowadays constitute one of the highlights among the works of twentieth-century art in the museum's Department of Prints and Drawings.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Retrospective
23 April to 25 July 2010, Städel Annex, ground floor and upper level