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Clothing, Color, Color scheme, graphic tees, Monochrome, Shopping, tees
There are endless possibilities in clothing for women. If we talk particularly about daily wear clothes, like the ones you would wear to college or on a casual outing with friends, t-shirts come handy with a pair of jeans. For a more simple or contemporary look, plain Tees with jeans or skirts in Neutral colors like Black, white and grey is the guaranteed proven look over the years. Now, as I said there are endless possibilities, I will now discuss different looks you can achieve with the help of graphic t-shirts in terms of color matching.
The Monochrome Look
Monochrome attire would have just one primary color like Red, Blue and Yellow. Neutral colors also work great in this scheme. This might not sound very convincing but when executed properly it can do wonders for you. You can also use different shades of the same color to match your T-shirt with bottom wear. While monochrome theme creates a modern look, it also makes you look slimmer and taller. For example Yepme I love Paris Blue Tee can be paired with a dark blue pair of jeans or even shorts. Greys can also be used with black for a monochrome look.
Complement those colors
This look creates a brighter and colorful look. The traditional color wheel suggests that Green can be worn with Red. Do you think it is an unusual combo? Well, yes if you are visualizing the basic shade but changing the hues would do wonders for you. If one color is darker, then make the other one a little lighter. I guarantee that shades would make a big difference for you. This is the color scheme which works best during spring and summers.
Analogy in Colors
Hues and shades which are similar can also be used sparingly in your attire. The best application of this is in accessories like your shoes, belt and bag. If you have a lot of blue in your attire, you can use colors like Aquamarine and Indigo for you accessories or vice-versa.

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But a few years back, I experienced a breakthrough with Garudasana, and this breakthrough wasn't physical, it was emotional�even spiritual. I just made peace with it. I started noticing that my emotions surrounding the pose were actually throwing me off-balance, so I stopped doing that finishing act; I gave up feeling that I needed to achieve anything in the posture.
I still include Garudasana in my practice, but I'm no longer working toward "accomplishing" it�or any other particular pose. I could probably do the classic, final form of Garudasana if I made that the focus of a practice session, using hip openers, lunge variations, Pigeon Pose variations, and even backbends to release my hips and pelvis. But these days, I focus my practice more on the movement of energy than on some physical outcome. My practice is a purification�a cleaning of the slate�so when I go into the rest of my life, I'm more at peace with things.
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Lawrence O'Donnell: Democrats Made Huge Mistake Not Putting Severability In ObamaCare
In the wake of Monday's ruling by a Florida judge to toss out ObamaCare as a result of the individual mandate, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell asked liberal constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley Tuesday if the Democrats made a mistake not writing a severability clause into the law.
Turley surprisingly answered, "It was a colossal mistake" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, HOST: Joining me now is Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University.
Jonathan, thanks for joining us tonight.
JONATHAN TURLEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: Hi, Lawrence.
O'DONNELL: Jonathan, the Democrats made a mistake of not writing into the law that the bill is what they call "severable," meaning if courts find bits of it unconstitutional, they can simply sever those bits from the rest of the law. Democrats insist that severability is implicit in this kind of law. Who's right?
TURLEY: Well, first of all, it was a colossal mistake not to have a severability clause in this legislation. It's a standard clause in bills. It is not clear why it was kept out. Some people say it was a blunder. Other suggests and I know you know, there's some suspicion that it might be a sort of game of chicken, that they wanted to make clear, if you take out the individual mandate, you are risking the entire bill to sort of give these judges a bit of sticker shock.
But either way, it was a mistake. It opened the door to allow a judge like Judge Vinson to strike the entire act. Now, it is certainly true that you do not need a severability clause for a judge to sever provision. And, in fact, that's exactly what Judge Hudson did in the Virginia. He was encouraged to strike down the entire law of Virginia and he chose not to. I agree with that decision. I think he did the right thing there.
But, the Democrats really laid themselves open in how they drafted this act. Judge Vinson is not, you know, totally out of line in saying that severability was put at issue when they did not include the clause. The interesting thing is the severability clause was in an earlier draft of the legislation and was removed.
Something that Judge Vinson notes in his opinion.
O'DONNELL: I can tell you, Jonathan, that's exactly the kind of mistake that occurs at the staff level when they are in these panic writings, last-minute writings of the legislative language of these bills - - things that they intend to be in there like a severability clause can easily slip out in the word processing.
Fascinating to see two liberals point fingers at Democrats, don't you agree?
Despite them both being correct, they omitted - conveniently or ignorantly - that this is the inherent problem of creating a several thousand page bill that no one reads.
O'Donnell blamed it on the word processing, but how about pointing fingers at all the Democrats in both chambers of Congress as well as in the adminstration that missed this oversight likely because no one read the darned thing? Was it so lengthy and comprehensive that it was impossible for anyone to know what was really there?
Makes you giggle now when you think about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) arrogantly claiming people would love the bill once they learned what was in it. You think she had any idea that there was no severability clause and that this could end up spelling the doom of the entire law?
Think she's lovin' it now? I sincerely doubt the Speaker is humming the McDonald's theme song at the moment.
This all becomes more important depending on the timetable of when the Supreme Court will hear this case. Hot Air's Ed Morrissey noted Tuesday that SCOTUS could end up deciding the 2012 elections:
A Supreme Court ruling that supports the mandate still leaves President Obama and his Democratic allies with an unpopular bill under political siege in the Republican-controlled House, no worse or better off than before a final court ruling. Such a ruling might even provide more motivation to the opposition to gain control of the Senate and White House to reverse the PPACA entirely through legislative action.
An adverse ruling by the Supreme Court before the 2012 election would be an unequivocal disaster, however. President Obama and his fellow Democrats spent almost half of the 111th congressional session fiddling on health care while the economy burned, which destroyed their credibility in the midterm elections last fall. They insisted that their work would pass constitutional muster even as the mandate fueled the rise of the Tea Party and came to embody all of the arrogance and elitism of big government, nanny state. A ruling that overturns even just the mandate means that they tossed away their House majority and all of their political momentum for nothing.
What's more, it will increase the prestige and the credibility of those who fought the passage of the PPACA and who later vowed to repeal it entirely and start reform over from scratch. And that could come just as President Obama runs for re-election and Democrats desperately try to preserve their Senate majority as they defend 13 more seats than Republicans. Not only would their work be discredited, so would their entire approach to governance.
The question of severability in the legal sense will play an important part of the appeals process, up to the Supreme Court sooner or later. The bigger question will be whether President Obama and his party will have any political severability from Obamacare if the Supreme Court overturns it on an expedited review. Voters will give the final judgment on that point, but given Democrats' lack of accomplishment over the past few years, don't bet on it.
This makes the severability omission larger than O'Donnell and Turley cared to admit. As Morrissey noted Wednesday, the Democrats are now in a real bind no matter what happens with SCOTUS:
[O]ne has to presume under the circumstances that the chance to head off a long, contradictory trek through different appellate circuits will appeal to at least the conservative end of the bench, especially since there is zero chance of avoiding the case in the long run anyway. On the other hand, after Bush v Gore, the court may not be terribly anxious to get to that end game and be seen as conducting a political intervention.
If they decide to tackle the inevitable sooner rather than later, the White House and its Democratic allies will face two outcomes: either a fired-up electorate like in 2010, or massive egg on their faces and … a fired-up electorate. There will be no severability from ObamaCare either way.
I don't agree on the Bush v. Gore point, as Obama injected himself into the Court's politics when he foolishly decided to admonish them during his 2010 State of the Union address. As a result, Justice Samuel Alito joined Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in not attending this year's SOTU.
As all you need are four Justices to hear the case, it seems almost a metaphysical certitude one of the remaining six will join Alito, Scalia and Thomas especially as this is going to be a political issue whenever the Court chooses to hear it.
And, no matter what their decision, the 2012 elections look certainly to be a referendum on ObamaCare, for if SCOTUS rules for it, the Center and Right will mobilize like never before to get Democrats out of the White House and the Congress in order to legislatively stop this catastrophe before it's fully implemented in 2014.
If SCOTUS finds the bill un-Constitutional as I expect, the Center and the Right will similarly mobilize against Democrats to toss the bums out that wasted so much of the nation's time during a recession on an issue that wasn't anywhere near as important to the citizenry as the economy and jobs.
This deliciously means that Pelosi was kind of right with her love it claim, for conservatives are all humming the McDonald's theme song now having found out what's not in the bill.
Colossal mistake indeed.
*****Update: Morrissey isn't buying the notion this was an oversight. More of a game of chicken.
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Kill the Bill
Submitted by iveseenitall on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:35am.
OOPS---did I say "kill" ---so sorry.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
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Severability was removed to
Submitted by Edhenry on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:49am.
Severability was removed to prevent adverse selection of poor risks (only the sick, or those with preexisitng conditions seeking coverage). It was the only way to make the numbers and risk asseessment work, and thus support of the health care industry.
But the spicoli answers ("I dont know, Mr Hand") we get from the "experts" (including senators from NY - 3 branches of gubment, the atty gen testifying in front of the judiciary committee, or the BS Media) confirms that watching them is a waste of time
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Uhm, sounds more like an
Submitted by dscott on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:28pm.
Uhm, sounds more like an excuse to obfuscate the fact that Democrats DID NOT write the bill in the first place, the Tides Foundation did. This is what happens when a SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP does legislation.
Remember, Democrats didn't read the whole bill in the first place either as Nancy Pelosi admitted when she said, they had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. This was also the de facto admission by many Democrats when confronted about reading the size of a huge 2000+ page bill. How could they possibly know the severability clause wasn't in the bill if they didn't read it? That's a big whoops on many levels!
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The Democrats DIDN'T
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:18pm.
I still want to know whose desk drawer this "health care plan" came out of so they can be removed from office/prosecuted, whatever.
This bill appeared. It was not labored over to create by our electeds.
If we know where it came from we will know the true intentions of its author(s)
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My experience...
Submitted by dmntd1 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:16pm.
Based on my experience, albeit at the State (Illinois) level, most bills are not written by the legislatures. They're written by lobbyists and special interest groups. Some of them are initially drafted by citizens, and presented to their representative, and edited by their staff. Most of the Senators and Representatives are not among the people. They have no idea what we're going through, what problems we face, and what solutions there are for our problems. I don't fault them, necessarily, for that, as there's not enough representatives to represent every single issue out there.
I do, however, fault them for not reading the entire bill, and being able to answer pointed, specific questions in regards to what the bill is, and why it's needed.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
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Why no severability
Submitted by kiwikit on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:10pm.
But. . . had they put it in, the bill would not have passed CBO with the 'no added cost' summation; thereby it would have never passed. Let me count the ways. . . that this is BAD! I'd like to
acknowledge Rush's program yesterday as the source for this.
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Had to show lower costs
Submitted by Big Wally on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:43pm.
You picked the right reason. Rush nailed it.
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You and Rush nailed it on the
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:50pm.
You and Rush nailed it on the head. The individual mandate is the major funding source for this legislation, $4,000 per year times 130 million people, or about $500 million dollars per year. I picked the $4000 ou of thin air by looking at the penalty costs of Commonwealth Care being ~$1200 per year as 1/2 of the cost of the lowest teir plan offerred, makingh that plan cost $2400 per year and figuring a gold plan would be about double. Without a huge influx of money from somewhere, this legislation could make no pretense of being budget nuetral. They had to exclude the doc fix and double count two other projected cost reductions to get the numbers they posted last year anyway.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Larry's Monday Morning QB show
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:45am.
Larry isn't willing to admit he understood perfectly the reason a severability clause wasn't included.
Most of y'all have heard the parable of the turkey dinner. You drop a piece of turkey on the kitchen floor, and you just feed it to the cat. But if you drop the whole turkey, you scoop it up, brush it off, and parade on out to the dining room with it.
The Barryatric Bill to Destroy Private Health Care IS the whole turkey.
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Thanksgiving at the Arrows'
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:57pm.
I'll just have the taters, thanks.
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Not A Mistake
Submitted by p-squared on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:46am.
Without the individual mandate, the costs of this program would have been even higher in CBO estimates.
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Guess ya
Submitted by donabernathy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:45am.
gotta read it ..to know what's in it.
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They still ain't read it
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:49am.
And Nancy Palocha is still all pie-faced stupid about it.
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Now, now, CA.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:06pm.
You're being much too hard on Nancy. After all, she is 'special" and has to pass bills before she can figure out what is in them. (I always thought that was like looking down the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger to find out what was in it. Sorry for the violent digression)
Anyway, Larry let the cat out of the bag when he said, "things that they intend to be in there like a severability clause can easily slip out in the word processing."
It was THE WORD PROCESSOR!!! That's what did it.
We need a congressional hearing to see if all the word processing equipment is being "organized" by TOTUS to take over the government. This is a serious charge. That's all we need. R2D2 for president.
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Not a chance, Bubba
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:10pm.
Of course, I know we're both being facetious here, but it's important that any novice conservatives understand the exclusion of severability was a big fat "You wouldn't dare" aimed at SCOTUS.
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You're right, CA
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 2:02pm.
I'm just praying that SCOTUS has some cojones and takes this case and crams it up POTUS's POTTUS.
Won't it be juicy if Oblunder's latest appointment has to recuse herself because she defended this crap while in the administration. If she doesn't, that could cause a small explosion.
I keep hoping that conservatives will get their heads out of their ashes and recognize what they are dealing with. It ain't delusion, or ignorance, or inexperience. The SOB knows exactly what he is doing.
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The death knell for Obamacare.
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 11:53am.
When even a liberal fire-breather like O'Donnell admits the flaw in Obamacare, it's pretty obvious that the only thing the White House can do (and is doing) is to attack the judge who renderered it unconstitutional. Nearly all the rest of the libpundits on any channel are following the standard meme, but O'Donnell may be looking at life after Comcast and positioning himself as more of a rational host. That's in contrast to Madcow continuing to blame everyone else for her misinformation. It's hard to believe that only "Crazy Larry" gets it; it shows how unhinged the liberal media truly is.
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Thank g_d for overreaching Democrats
Submitted by JLin on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:04pm.
This "law" has been in the can and on the shelf for many decades, maybe even largely written by Leftists long dead. To compound the confusion, they probably added to and tinkered with it for years. When they took Congress and the White House they were so drunk with power and the prospect of total victory that they paid no attention to what they were doing, thus the amateurish blunder. No wonder Nancy had to pass it so she could find out what was in it. LOL. I bet she wishes now that she had read it.
I can't help but liken this Great Dem Debacle to Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.... the high water mark of the Confederacy. Delicious irony.
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Submitted by Morganfrost on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:11pm.
Kinda reminds me of Niles on "Frasier," except that Niles' nuttiness was a bit more endearing.
I sometimes wonder what percentage of this vicious fruitcake's audience (and that of his colleagues on MSNBC) is composed of conservatives who enjoy blogging about him. Maybe it's time simply to ignore these clowns?
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what I would like to know
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:15pm.
how come the media never saw this coming or even considered it as a possibility. where was this Jonathan Turley last March warning Democrats it was a badly written bill? where was Lawrence O'Donnell a year ago asking why Congress was voting on a messy bill written by interns that no one even read???
Oh wait, I know where Lawrence O'Donnell was a year ago. He was bragging to Donnie Deutsch how he was such an inside player among Congress that he was "so close and had so much information."
Thanks for being so stupid you never thought to mention that there was no severability clause. Your genius is really showing there. MSNBC is lucky to have you around.
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I think the MSM and the
Submitted by Hunter12 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 2:01pm.
I think the MSM and the Democrats started to believe their own genned up polls and press releases and thought the American people were in love with the progressive agenda and they would remain in power with endless do-overs to fix any detected problems. We booted their butts out and after 2012, we should have the Senate and the presidency turned around as well, to correct any remaining problems. That is unless the GOP can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with that stupid tendency to actually care about what a dying MSM prints or reports about them and try to cater to a "public" that doesn't really exist. Here's a tip to the GOP: Katie and Matt are never going to love you. Deal with it.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
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Government wrecked the healthcare and housing markets
Submitted by JLin on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:18pm.
The reason we have a health care crisis in this country is precisely because the government politicians sat their fat a**es right in the middle of the process. Insurance companies were merely the kudzu after-effects of government jerrymandering of the markets. Yet the government tries to make like businesses and insurers are the bogeymen in the whole affair. They used the same strategy to manipulate housing and create the subprime crisis. As Reagan said "Government is the problem, not the solution."
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Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 10:03pm.
Mandating every outlier {sex-changes, etc.} is what increased costs - the 3 major things that are out of line with wages: Health Care, Education, and Housing - are ALL infected by the "spreading the wealth/pain" crowd
Ronald Reagan
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Sheesh, Larry...ya think?
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:22pm.
Sheesh, Larry...ya think? Maybe you should read the whole 2400 pages...I'm sure it's in there, somewhere.
Putting that bill together was a lot like letting congress make a pot of chili. Everybody had something to contribute!
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"pass the bill to find out whats in"...
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:31pm.
It seems Pelosi was (for once) right on the money. Since no one actually took the time to read it, they had to pass the bill to find out what was NOT in it -- SEVERABILITY!!
HAHAHAHAH!!! That is SO Democrat!! That is SO LIBERAL!!
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→ Find out what's NOT in it?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 12:34pm.
We have to pass it so you can find out what's NOT in it.
Fixed it for ya, Nancy.
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Don't take the bait.
Submitted by Ashrak on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:03pm.
No, they did not make a mistake, they did this all on purpose. First, the individual mandate was the key to making the "it saves money" line even possible without utter laughter and second, the intent by Obama was to see it axed so that he could run another campaign on "healthcare reform" as yet still a victim. He can say "he tried", but those evil Republicans and judges kixed his glorious attempts.
But aside from all that, they want this tanked in the first place. They want to see it fast tracked to the SCOTUS in order to head off the tenth amendment challenge regarding the Firearms Freedom act. Obamacare is about protecting commerce clause case law so that control over literally everything is not lost as a resul of Americans regaining economic freedom.
While Obama derides judicial activism, his intent is to protect that very thing. Think it through, Obama stomped around this country saying how out of line insurance companies are, yet he and his cohorts forced us to do business with those very companies under threat of penalty for not doing so. They now chastise judicial activism while trying to protect that veryt hing justthe same way.
The federal government is empowered to regulate commerce among the several states, not among the people within them. The Federal government was empowered to regulate the state governments when it came to TAXING, dutying and tariffing commerce, not decide for individual people what commerce they could or could not engage in. In no way was government itself formed to "regulate" the exercise of rights and even force or mandate their exercise.
Governments are instituted among men to protect and defend the exercise of rights by free Citizens - not to decide for subjects if, when and where they can exercise them or not.
Interstate commerce is a fabrication and amounts to an amendment to the Constitution done within the Judiciary and even if it is 130 years standing - it must be resolved. Enough is enough. Even the Supreme Court, regardless of what its 9 robed kings say, must relent before the Constitution itself pertaining to what it says and what it does not say. Our Constitution does not delegate the power to regulate commerce among the people to the federal government or the state government - it does not delegate that authority to government itself. That is a right all people hold themselves, just like the freedom of speech.
Ousting Obamacare in the Court strengthens the commerce clause case law and that is exactly the wrong direction! We must restore the Constitution, not futher supplant it. Don't take the bait.
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In my opinion
Submitted by Par for the Course on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:12pm.
In my opinion, the severability clause wasn't put into the bill at the request of a major stakeholder, the insurance industry. AHIP, America's Health Insurance Plans (providing Health Benefits for Over 200 Million Americans) issued a press release on November 19, 2008, Health Plans Propose Guaranteed Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions and Individual Coverage Mandate
Summary of AHIP's Proposal to Guarantee Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions and Promote Affordability in the Individual Insurance Market:
Guarantee-issue coverage with no pre-existing condition exclusions;
Establish an individual coverage requirement with an insurance coverage verification system, an automatic enrollment process and effective enforcement of the requirement that all individuals purchase and maintain coverage;
If the Individual Mandate was ruled unconstitutional (as it has been) and was severable, the insurance industry would still have to comply with the remaining provisions of the law, which as AHIP states in it's press release:
Some individuals are unable to purchase individual health insurance coverage in the private market because of their health status. One approach taken by states to address this issue has been the enactment of guarantee issue legislation requiring health plans to offer coverage to all applicants. These well-intentioned reforms have often resulted in severe unintended consequences, including significantly higher costs for all policyholders.
A report by Milliman, Inc. found that enactment of guarantee issue laws in the absence of requirement that individuals purchase coverage may incentivize people to defer seeking coverage until they have health problems – a situation which unfairly penalizes those who are currently insured. According to the report, states that implemented these laws saw a rise in insurance premiums, a reduction of individual insurance enrollment and no significant decrease in the number of uninsured.
I think AHIP didn't want anything to do with the bill if the the individual mandate could be severed from the law and the White House acquiesced. I'm sure the White House didn't want a repeat of those "Harry and Louise" ads.
Just one of the many "deals" that were made with the major stakeholders to get the bill passed. But that's just my opinion.
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We know there were deals
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:40pm.
Just not how many, and with whom.
But I like your thinking on the subject, Par. As usual.
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Submitted by Ashrak on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 4:24pm.
That is it exactly. Obama, along with Democrats in general, get to keep the campaign theme, and blame the Insurance industry and the courts some more. This, while the bots say that not doing this, the individual mandate, is what actually costs us all more (as the illegal aliens they themselves support and defend soak up endless taxpayer dollars via medicaid). The House of Cards is falling....No Doubt.
Obama isn't having the 'Hannibal' moment he anticipated. He and his buddies thought the "O" worship would grow endlessly and that eventually everybody would fall under the same spell the media journOlists did. They are finding out that Americans are a great deal smarter and willing to defend their freedom than they ever contemplated.
Obama is toast.
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→ Severability is coming
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:16pm.
According to the Good Book, as well as Islamic Law, severability is coming soon to a decision center near you.
Convert or die.
Isn't it strange that so many kings are now surrendering their authority to an unnamed movement?
I ain't joking here.
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Oh the hypocricy*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:30pm.
The liberal mantra....tis good for thee but not for me....
They forgot a number of items that were excluded or included in this bill. If any of the msm would bother to read the bill they would be asking the question...Why 732 exemptions for unions and special interest groups friendly to the current President? If this bill is so wonderful, why is it not good enough for everyone?
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Healthcare is a mess
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 1:48pm.
right now because of one person Ted Kennedy, who intinker with the free market created HMO's and began this whole mess.
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Submitted by politicalpaw on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 3:57pm.
Remember the Progressive Dems frantic Christmas Eve of 09'?
The degenerate that knocks off a 7/11 invariably leaves an incriminating fingerprint or a glove behind. The criminal will attempt to impede the video cameras, too (Barack's HC debate on cameras lie). LISTEN to Turley..."it was a COLOSSAL MISTAKE not to have a Severability Clause". And Larry, "a Severability Clause can EASILY slip out during the word processing"
LMAO..."easily" if you're frantically extorting on 09' Christmas Eve!
There's a reason for the "Never Buy Something From Someone That's Out Of Breath" adage
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You see Larry, the problem is
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 4:10pm.
When a thief is robbing you, in his haste he makes errors. Things like leaving evidence or forgetting to add a Severability clause.
Once the libs took control of this country, they were tripping over their arrogant greedy dishonest feet robbing us. So, don't be so surprised when the thieves have screwed up pieces of the MASTER PLAN.
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Is there such a thing as a
Submitted by Martin2717 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 4:49pm.
Is there such a thing as a liberal constitutional lawyer?
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Submitted by Kilroy on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 5:50pm.
liberal constitutional lawyer, isn't that an oxymoron?
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Pretty much.
Submitted by Martin2717 on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 7:38pm.
Pretty much.
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Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 9:23pm.
Already knew the answer - he was on MJ before it was even passed saying they screwed up by leaving this out. My memory is faulty, but I remember how passionate and in the weeds on this issue he got.
Ronald Reagan
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Round Four of the Willow Bird Baking Challenges found me feeling particularly uninspired. My creativity had hit a wall. Add to that the theme to bake seasonally, and my brain stopped at pumpkin. But there has got to be more to autumn than pumpkin. Right? Turns out there is! Check out all of the other creative challenges here.
I eventually set out to make a brown sugar cupcake that I baked about this time last year. My intention was to fill the cupcake with a white chocolate mixture and top it all off with a simple vanilla frosting. As I flipped through my folder that holds copies of my Great Grandmother's recipes (it was her brown sugar cake I referred to earlier), I first had to go past no fewer than four spice cake recipes.
What a minute, was that four spice cake recipes? For a round four challenge? Change of plans. That and I realized I had no white chocolate chips when I set out to bake. The innovation had begun.
More often than not, innovation and creativity in my kitchen is based on simply upon what I do and do not have available. Necessity truly is the mother of invention when I cook. I tend to exhaust my supplies before I go to the grocery. I do this because grocery shopping is one of my least favorite chores. I do not mind laundry or sweeping, but grocery shopping is right up there with car waxing on my "chores I dislike" list. Yet, I do it because it must be done.
Notably, I can get away with this because I do not have little mouths to feed. If I am left with a jar of peanut butter and rice, so be it.
Speaking of peanut butter and rice, sometimes innovation can go too far. I like playing Chopped! in the kitchen, but since I usually have only rice, eggs, cereal, soy milk, popcorn, coffee creamer, apples, and beer on hand, things tend not to get too out of hand. However, stir fry made with tuna and peanut butter can result when Chopped! is played among those who are not yet ready. Trust me, that dish is not good.
So about those cupcakes. Baking one of my great grandmother's recipes really does call for some level of innovation as her recipes could easily double as lists. They are just ingredients. I have no idea how long to bake the cake or at what temperature or if I should pack the brown sugar. But you know, it really doesn't matter.
I settled on the "Spice Cake – Lottie's" recipe. One day I hope to get around to baking the one anonymous spice cake recipe and those attributed to Margaret and Leona. The cupcakes are filled with a sweet pumpkin dip and frosted with ginger cream cheese frosting. Ginger was the one baking spice missing from the cake, so it seemed appropriate to use it to complete this creation. Four down, one to go. Enjoy!
- For the Cupcakes
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- For the Filling
- ½ cup canned pumpkin
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- For the Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- Whisk the flour, baking soda, and spices together and set aside.
- Cream the butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs.
- Slowly and alternately add the milk and flour mixture in two additions and mix until combined.
- Fill each well of a paper-lined muffin tin about ⅔ full.
- Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the cakes comes out clean.
- To make the filling, mix together the pumpkin, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and pumpkin pie spice until well combined.
- When cupcakes are cool, simply cut a "cone" from the center, place the filling inside, and top with just the top of the removed cone (cut the excess away).
- To make the frosting, place the cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and ground ginger in mixing bowl and beat until combined.
- Slowly add the confectioner's sugar one cup at a time, beating until the frosting is light and fluffy.


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The Cole Hamels situation is especially fascinating to me, and I've written about it here, here, and here over the past few months. There are a few reasons for the interest, but mostly it gives me a constant excuse to link to Ted Berg's repository of embarrassing Cole Hamels pictures.
Most interesting, though, is the idea that of all the players the Phillies have acquired, extended, and reacquired, that Cole Hamels might be the one they let go. Hamels was the homegrown ace who led the Phillies to their first World Series win in 28 seasons. Usually that sort of pedigree leads to long-term deals from rich teams.
But the Phillies have spent the last couple of offseasons desperately strip-mining their renewable resources at the expense of future generations. The Jimmy Rollins deal probably isn't going to look great in 2014, but what were they going to do in 2012 without a shortstop? Same goes with Jonathan Papelbon. Long-term deals to closers usually go the way of B.J. Ryan, but the Phillies were concerned with 2012, primarily.
And there are now two new wrinkles in the Hamels saga. The first:
Just reported on Sports Final @NBCPhiladelphia that I'm told cole hamels agent has told Phillies they r looking for "7" year deal.— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) May 14, 2012
Seven years. Matt Cain got five years, and he's roughly the same age, with a similar track record. This is negotiating time, so it's not like there's a ton of reasons to be completely honest with the media right now. It's not like players are dying to leak a quote like ...
Really, I'll settle for three years, but I'm secretly hoping for six, even though there's no way I'm worth that much. Have you seen me pitch?
And seven years is where teams back off, even if they really, really want the player in question. There's a Surgeon General's warning on every seven-year contract, as required by law. It's just a picture of Barry Zito.
I don't know why Dr. Benjamin picked that picture as the warning, but whatever. Not here to judge. Point is that only a few teams will be crazy and desperate enough to give out a seven-year deal.
That crazy and/or desperate-enough team might be the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are sitting on a cartoonish sack of money like fat cats from an editorial cartoon about the Teapot Dome. The Dodgers have done everything short of make tiger sounds and wink at Hamels from across the room. They have a new owner and a (oft repeated) desire to spend money; Hamels is from Southern California and will be one of the best players on the market.
The second wrinkle: The Phillies are sort of bad right now, and Ruben Amaro, Jr. isn't backing away from his comments that the Phillies could be sellers at the trading deadline:
"I don't expect us to be in a seller's mode. But I also have to be realistic. If the team decides it doesn't want to play the way we expect to play or play the caliber of baseball necessary to win, you can't squeeze blood from a stone."
Amaro has made an out-of-the-blue trade for prospects before -- the first time Cliff Lee was on the Phillies, he was traded away for prospects. For some reason. Still not sure about that one. But Amaro isn't shy. If talks stall, and the Phillies continue stinking, Hamels could be swapped for younger players. Crazy to think of even just three months ago, but it makes a little sense now if you squint ...
In January, I pegged a Hamels extension at 95 percent. In March, about 75 percent. Now? I'm going 50/50. Hamels will get some ridiculous offers if he reaches free agency, especially with Cain off the market. Hamels isn't going to go for the ol' hometown discount, and the Phillies are playing their worst stretch of baseball in years. That could be a recipe for a much, much different Phillies team next year.


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"There's no shame in losing," he said. "I lost my first amateur wrestling match as a kid. My coach told me when I was wanting to quit, that you first have to lose before you learn how not to lose. I don't like to lose so I have to learn not to lose in this sport."
"Obviously I'm disappointed, but it was a great experience," he said. "I must have worked on defending that leglock 1,000 times maybe. I thought I was going to get out."
"I'm here for as long as I can fight here," Lesnar said. "I love what I'm doing. The company has been great."
Lesnar has a great attitude coming off his first loss. If there's anyone who knows adversity, it's Lesnar. He was offered no wrestling scholarships coming out of high school after amassing a 33-0 record his senior year and had to work his way up through the junior college ranks before going on to dominate the competition in the Big Ten at Minnesota. Losing one fight in MMA to a guy who could be considered the best heavyweight submission artist in the game is not going to phase Lesnar. It's hard to imagine that he'll lose two in a row.
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"may be the best HW submission artist"
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It's hard to imagine the UFC will LET him lose two in a row…
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I enjoyed how Dave Meltzer's post-fight report on Yahoo said, "Most of the talk after the match was about Lesnar's potential to be one of the most dominant heavyweights in mixed martial arts history."
Wait a minute… what? I could even understand, "Most of the talk after the match was that Lesnar showed huge potential," but the aforementioned hyperbole is just ridiculous.
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Why? He was tearing Mir apart with two years of training. He was moving around on the ground like a WW.
Don't be such a negative nancy.
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it's true… aside from Noguiera and mayyyyyybe Monson… name one that's better than Mir.
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Nogueira has that title. But Lesnar was impressive in how powerful he is and he pushed Mir around at will. If he learns some JJ defense, he could very well be good.
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Lesnar simply showed everyone that he's going to be the force that has to be reckoned with. W/just his 1st UFC debut, and showing us how athletic he is. . .we will only see Lesnar get better & better. He threw Mir around like nothing. Put some more efficiency w/his game & he'll be impossible to handle. He was literally caving in Mir's skull for Christ's sake. Thank God Mir had the skill to stop it otherwise he'd have been flattened.
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I think congratulating him on his attitude is a little silly. Of course he has a good attitude, he had a reception from the UFC brass the likes of which few 1-0 MMA record fighters have ever had.
He says the UFC has been wonderful to him- and they have. He knows this loss doesn't mean much to his record because he could survive in the UFC through quite a few losses on his name recognition and audience draw alone. He has been given a gift that some fighters had to work their entire careers to achieve. He walked into it out of a losing shot at the NFL. Of course he has a "great" attitude.
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"# # 7 BigBad Bradical Says:
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Lesnar simply showed everyone that he's going to be the force that has to be reckoned with. W/just his 1st UFC debut, and showing us how athletic he is. . .we will only see Lesnar get better & better. He threw Mir around like nothing. Put some more efficiency w/his game & he'll be impossible to handle. He was literally caving in Mir's skull for Christ's sake. Thank God Mir had the skill to stop it otherwise he'd have been flattened."
first, check out the definition of "literally"
second, those hammerfists weren't hurting mir much at all until the five or so that brock illegally put on the back of mir's head. After several dozen of those little strikes (which probably seemed really powerful to a guy who is used to fake fighting) at the end of the fight, Mir had a couple of bruises and a little cut on his forehead.
Certainly Mir couldn't stuff Lesnar's takedowns (but then again, why does a BJJ guy need to stuff takedowns? the guard is where BJJ is strongest against a wrestler) and certainly Lesnar scored points with those hammerfists but basically he exploited the typical weakness of a GnP wrestler.
Now, if Lesnar could learn clinchwork and dirty boxing like Randy's, maybe he would be a serious threat.
That said, I think Lesnar would whoop Sylvia.
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He was booed pretty heavily at the weigh ins, before the fight, during his entrance, and after the fight. To keep your cool and admit that you made a silly mistake is showing something. Brock won a lot of people over last night because of how humble he was.
He knew the right things to say, that's for sure… maybe because he understood why they were booing him? It was a little silly for the current incarnation of the UFC to take an amateur wrestler with a 1-0 mma record (that win against a can with a losing record and no wins against any meaningful opponents) under contract and throw him against a UFC champion. You can't honestly say he would have been treated the same way had he not been a WWE actor previously.
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Is it just me or was the stoppage for the hammer fists somewhat irregular? Yes he did hit Mir in the back of the head (1 clean time–yes I recorded it), but no warning? Mir was my pick for the match, but realistically, had the ref not jumped in Mir I strongly think we would have seen Mir fold.
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Jiu-Jitsu RULED THE NIGHT.
Lesnar got owned by a superior fighter. Simple as that.
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JacRabbit they are trying to strictly enforce the fighter to understand that you cannot hit in the back of the head. Truely I just don't think Lesnar knows the complete rules of MMA.
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JacRabbit, agreed. I've never seen a point deduction get whipped out so fast, but that being said, I kinda got the feeling that if he wasn't called on it, he would have just kept doing it.
Derek, I think it's more a lack of discipline, which doesn't surprise me seeing as it was his first REAL MMA fight. In my opinion he came in 0-0. I mean…. can you even count the first guy? lol I think Brock did real well on his first time out in the big leagues. I expected him to get bitched up out there, but with a little more experience I think he might become a damn good fighter. Surprised the hell outa me, that's for damn sure. Now he just needs to do something about that big cock on his chest.
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It's hard for a fighter to really create a good strategy for an opponent that you haven't ever seen fight before. It's not like Mir could go to his collection of DVD and pin-point holes in Lesnar's game. As time goes on people will be able to collect more fight strategy on Lesnar and be able to pick him apart. His lack of experience is what will kill him. I just can't picture Lesnar becoming a Heavy Weight Title Holder.
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"It's hard to imagine that he'll lose two in a row."
I can imagine Lesnar losing five in a row unless he goes up against a complete scrub. He made a big mistake going against a BJJ black belt. Whoever thought of that as his debut was simply dumb. Mir put him in his place.
"As time goes on people will be able to collect more fight strategy on Lesnar and be able to pick him apart. His lack of experience is what will kill him. I just can't picture Lesnar becoming a Heavy Weight Title Holder."
Well said.
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IMO Mir's face was pretty lumped up from a minute thirty with big boy. Did he get caught ? fo sure did they take the point fast? absolutely! Is Mir a quality fighter ? no doubt. I think Brock showed very well going against him, Mir is tough as heck to make look bad and Brock was chucking him around. he is gonna get he ground game down , he is in the right place give him time and you will see
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He was totally owning Mir. Mir owes this one to Mazzagatti. He saved him with that stoppage. That was total BS. They hit the back of the head all the time and get verbal warnings at least 4-5 times. As a matter of fact I have never seen a point deducted for punching the back of the head.
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Big Band series tickets on sale
ANDERSON — Tickets are on sale for the Paramount Big Band Series featuring Carolyn Martin's Swing Band. This new generation band from Nashville, Tenn. brings big band music into the 21st century. The performance is 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16.
Tickets are $25 and are available at the Paramount Box office, by phone at 642-1234, or online at www.andersonparamount.org. Students with current ID can purchase a ticket for a single concert for only $10.
Flea Boutique & Yart sale is May 25
ANDERSON — Ernie's Heart Flea Boutique & Yart Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25.
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Anderson set for Honeywell Center
WABASH — Legendary singer/songwriter Bill Anderson will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at the Honeywell Center in Wabash.
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Tickets are $25, $35, and $50, and can be purchased at the box office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday by calling (260) 563-1102 or by visiting www.honeywellcenter.org.
AHS Class of '47 meeting for lunch
ANDERSON — The Anderson High School Class of 1947 will meet for its monthly luncheon at 11 a.m. Thursday at Perkins Family Restaurant, 5033 S. Scatterfield Road, Anderson.
All class member and friends are welcome.
Gardeners to hold plant sale
ALEXANDRIA — The Madison County Master Gardener Association will hold its annual plant sale on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the 4-H Building in Alexandria.
Offered will be perennials, bushes, trees, annuals, vegetable plants, herbs and miscellaneous. Proceeds are used to provide scholarships for college students majoring in horticultural studies.
For more information contact Errol Grant, president of MCMGA at 621-2576.
Mainstage Theatre holds auditions
ANDERSON — Auditions will be held this weekend for Anderson's Mainstage Theatre production of "The Comedy of Errors."
Auditions are 3-5 p.m. May 11-12 at Central Christian Church, 10th & Jackson streets, Anderson.
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Digital Ash 6/17/2013: Cirque de SEALsA comic review article by: Logan Beaver, Daniel Elkin, Nick Hanover, Danny Djeljosevic
Digital Ash is Comics Bulletin's roundup of non-paper comics -- webcomics, online shorts, digital-first releases. Sequential art made of ones and zeroes. Some of it you can read for free, others you gotta to buy.
Elsewhere on Comics Bulletin:
- Singles Going Steady reviewed the week's latest drug-fueled floppies.
- Tiny Pages Made of Ashes reviews small-press and self-published comics.
What Were You Raised by Wolves?
(Vera Brosgol)
Hell is an American city. When we lived in Chicago, my girlfriend would come home with a new story almost every day, about whatever new angry psycho she met on the train. We've been stared at by a man muttering epithets at us for over 15 minutes without pause because we dared hold each others' hands on the same bus he was riding. I'd been threatened by two different meth-addicted bodybuilders within the same four month period. My girlfriend was a student teacher at a school where 1/3 of the kids were homeless, and I was unemployed for that entire year. It seemed like we were all flailing, trying to be a success, or just an adult, or just to survive.
The main character of Vera Brosgol's (Anya's Ghost) wordless comic "What Were You Raised By Wolves?" is taken from her home as a child, but that period of adjustment (or her failure to adjust, rather) is, while certainly felt, kinda glossed over in order to get to her attempt to find her place in the world of humans. She moves to a city. She gets (and fails to keep) numerous jobs because who she is doesn't allow her to stand for the mountains of horrible, Batman-inspiring shit that people must live with on a regular basis. She gives up and moves out of the city.
Eventually, the nameless protagonist finds a place she can call home. When I first read this, it was prefaced with numerous posts about how sad the story is, but I didn't get it. She found what she was looking for, right? It was hard, and it sucked, but she made it. Maybe I'm over thinking it. Maybe I'm still completely missing the point, but maybe why the ending seems so sad is because it seems like the character is giving up on a task that everyone reading the comic is faced with. In the world of the story, she finally finds the place where she can be happy, but in the world of humans, we can't just return to our idyllic childhood if we can't find peace.
- Logan Beaver
Read "What Were You Raised By Wolves?" at Vera Brosgol's website.
The Grove Nymph
Creator: Jecaro
I've had the monomyth on my mind lately. I've been catching glimpses of the hero's journey story structure seemingly in everything I read and watch (and occasionally eat -- but that's another thing altogether). It's weird and a little unsettling. Perhaps the universe is trying to goad me into embarking on some sort of personal transformation, or maybe it's preparing me for what is to become of my son as he gets older. I don't know. I'm not sure how I feel about signs and portents anyway. Regardless, the world seems beset by quests of late.
Jecaro's The Grove Nymph #1 fits right into this set of circumstances. The story revolves around a grove nymph named Mira who has been lounging around a freshwater spring with her sister, Mari, for 100 years. For some unexplained reason, she suddenly finds herself possessed with some get-up-and-go, a desire for the new, an urge for change, a call to adventure. She leaves the comfort of her home and hearth and ventures into the unknown. Stomp, stomp, stomp -- lockstep through the stages of the hero's journey.
The Grove Nymph's creator, Jecaro, has little need for subtlety in his storytelling as he starts marching us through the myth. Mira eats a single pomegranate seed, saves a Pom Sprite named Papapom from a Root Goblin, meets Mama Socotra, agrees to help Mama Socotra save her kidnapped daughters, is given two arrows, and, with Papapom as her guide, embarks further into the woods. This is a three issue series, supposedly, and we are a third into our story.
There's an innocence and an enthusiasm to Jecaro's writing. It's almost as if he has only just heard about the monomyth structure and is anxious to get his ideas into the formula as quickly as he can. The pacing is almost frenetic, but, given the familiarity of the story, the reader is right there with him.
Still, there's the hint that there may be something else going on. There are clues of some sort of thematic heft that over-leap the basic structure of the all-too-familiar journey/quest, and this is why I am drawn to this book. Our first hint that there is more to this story is Mama Socotra's quiet regret for having had her life changed by eating the pomegranate seeds (harking back, of course, to the story of Persephone and Hades -- and the thickness of the emotional content of that). Then Mira receives two arrows without a bow, which, as far a metaphors go, is ripe for all kinds of unpacking. Finally, of even greater weight, the monster Mira may have to fight has a free swinging penis (and eyeballs on his knees). If this is the case... well, then, there you go...
All these seem to push enough on the edges of the envelope to make me excited by what could, perhaps, be something special. Jecaro may be using the monomyth to tell a tale, personal and emotionally charged.
That innocence and enthusiasm that encapsulates Jecaro's writing is also evident in his artwork. While there's certainly this Michael Avon Oeming vibe to his characters, there is a youthful sensibility to his line work and his use of colors. A vibrancy springs from Jecaro's panels as if he were illustrating a children's book, as if the intent is to make everyone smile.
But this isn't a children's book. I'm convinced that there is something more going on here. I'm just not exactly sure what that is. And it is this uncertainty, especially in the midst of something so familiar, that is exciting and it makes me want to read more.
- Daniel Elkin
Buy The Grove Nymph can be found on Comixology and find out more about Jecaro.
Drones #1-3
(Chris Lewis, Bruno Oliveira, Cabral; Epigamics)
There's a long history in warfare of truly heinous acts being committed in the hopes that it will ultimately save lives. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki -- these come to mind for most immediately. But in our current era of technological hegemony, innocent lives and constitutional freedoms are dually sacrificed in the name of some kind of questionable safety through the terrifying implementation of all-seeing drones. Chris Lewis and Bruno Oliveria's web based comic Drones explores not just the horror of living under drone "protection" but also of the inherent surreality of that. To wit: we now exist in a society where our government has decided the best way to protect its citizenry from terrorists who hate our freedom is with weapons and intelligence that function by sacrificing significant portions of that freedom.
It's an alluring premise and one with almost infinite potential for action comics that Lewis and Oliveira mostly deliver on. Oliveira's style in particular is a perfect match for this story, reminiscent of the boldly abstract aesthetic Mike Huddleston brought to Butcher Baker mixed with the highly expressive character work of Deadpool MAX-era Kyle Baker. Though he could still stand to work some on maintaining consistency in his characters' faces, Drones nonetheless signals Oliveira as a major talent and one to keep an eye on, with Cabral's phenomenal color work serving to embolden and boost that already considerable talent.
Lewis' scripting, by contrast, isn't quite on the same level of Oliveira's art talents. Drones is basically a satire, where an al-Qaeda stand-in clashes with a counter insurgency that operates out of Las Vegas and has built an entire casino around providing tourists an entertaining "Cirque de SEALs" experience. As interesting as the concept is, Lewis seems a little too proud of his own ideas and he can't help but pad them out with twist after twist after twist, rather than letting the story breathe and do its thing. This is perhaps best seen through the lack of development we get with the story's ostensible leads, Mike "Stinger" Watson and Lani "Angel Eyes" Parvati, who we learn next to nothing about and whose defining characteristics are that they're drone pilots and they're sleeping together, despite that being a major military no-no. We don't learn much about how two drone pilots are so capable of taking out well-trained terrorists assassins or why all these terrorists know so much about drone pilots in the first place, but maybe that's forthcoming.
But even with those criticisms in mind, Drones is a notable work, one that shows that comics are a medium uniquely suited to high concept actioneering and big budget satire where the only limitation is maybe the allotted page count. Lewis and Oliveira are a team with a bright future, and Drones is a series that deserves attention, particularly if you want to see how webcomics have just as much variety on offer as their print counterparts.
- Nick Hanover
This One Scary-Go Round Page
(John Allison)
I don't read Scary Go Round, so I don't know what's going on here --
-- but I don't think context is really necessary.
- Logan Beaver
I Don't Even Know What to Call This Comic by Pete Toms But Jesus Christ
(Pete Toms)
Gonna make this a quick extra thing since we covered one of his comics last time: I discovered Pete Toms when he did "Virginia" with Sam Humphries in 2012 and since then he's become one of my favorite dudes putting out comics on the web. I think you can pretty much shoot up my list of favorite comickers just by making weird, funny stuff with a distinct style.
He just did a five-pager for the second issue of the comic anthology Jeans -- which I've never heard of before but now I'm really interested in -- that's partially a history of the Carvel ice cream cake character Cookiepuss (they're most famous for Fudgie the Whale) and partially Videodrome-esque VHS horror and it made me laugh a lot.
- Danny Djeljosevic
Read that thing here, and pick up Jeans #2 when it comes out in fall 2013.


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Purdue President Mitch Daniels will open the conference, which will include sessions on the impact of invasive species such as Asian carp on the Great Lakes. Researchers will also discuss recent findings on how climate change and contamination are affecting the Great Lakes basin.
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Our spy photographers have already snapped pictures of the McLaren F1 successor, but a new report is indicating it will be unveiled at a private event during the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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Routine Vehicle Service: DIY Fluid Inspections
After a night of heavy drinking and partying we usually try to take our vitamins, drink a lot of water, and eat healthy the next day so our body will be fresh and replenished to continue doing its duty. Like a night of heavy drinking, driving hard takes a toll on the components and fluids in our engine. Regular scheduled maintenance is no longer at its regular suggested schedule when the engine is being used under hard load. Regularly checking fluids, inspecting for leaks, and making sure everything is in order under the hood will keep your engine running longer so you can enjoy it with fewer breakdowns to ensure reliability. There are a few options on servicing your car, you can go to a shop and have it done, which can be at either a Firestone, dealership, or you can do it yourself. Doing it yourself is not difficult and since we are enthusiasts we are going to try it on our own.
The first fluid we are going to check is the engine oil. Everyone has heard about the engine oil at some point of their lives so that says that it has at
The next fluid to inspect is the engine coolant. Coolant is what keeps the engine from overheating by circulating around the
As we move on through our checklist of engine service points, we get to the transmission fluid. If you have
The manual transmission has fluid inside it as well. The process is a little bit different but the cost usually stays the same. A manual transmission has synchros that wear out over time. Keeping clean and good lubrication inside the transmission will not only help the gear shifts go smoothly, keep the noise down, and most of all increase the life of the transmission. There are a few different transmission fluids to choose from which vary in price but are all affordable enough to keep a close watch on the fluid. Another type of fluid in our cars is the differential fluid. This fluid is usually recommended for service at around 100,000 miles and usually only requires a few quarts to fill up. The differential in every car works hard and has many gears inside it which need constant lubrication and clean particle free fluid. Differential fluid is often referred to as gear oil and it is a lot thicker than engine or transmission oil. In some cases transfer cases take gear oil like the differential but other cases they take automatic transmission fluid. To find out which fluid your car takes make sure to look in the owners' manual. Keeping quality and new fluid in your differential and transfer case will prolong the life of the gears inside and keep everything from becoming brittle and weak.
One of the most overlooked fluids in the car, yet one of the most important is
In this economy it is important to keep your car at a reliable state so you do not have any unexpected surprises on the road which can be very expensive. Most of the parts in your car depend and rely on the basic service procedures that should be checked as often as every oil change. If you like to drive fast and push the car to the limits you must be even more cautious about keeping fluids clean and leak free. As long as your fluids are kept at a good clean state, your car will last a lot longer. People that service their vehicles regularly end up paying less in repairs and have a better running and performing car for a much longer time.
Photogallery: Nissan Silvia | Down Under
The Nissan Silvia is perhaps one of the hottest cars in America to never have been sold in America. We found this Nissan Silvia virtually unmolested, simple, and beautiful. We got the short end of the stick with the only difference between the Japanese version and the U.S. version being the engine. The American Nissan 240SX was give the 2.4L engine vs. the Japanese version 2.0L turbo charged. Here is this right hand drive Nissan Silvia 2.0L turbo charged with the sr20det Japanese engine.
Photogallery | Tramontana-R Supercar
The Tramontana is old news to some, but new news to many. In 2009 the Tramontana-R was created by a European Company located on the Costa Brava (Spain), which manufactures an exclusive tailor-made supercar called Tramontana. It is a combination of a Formula 1 racing car and a fighter jet powered by a V12 engine which produces a maximum of 720 hp. The whole car is made by using the finest materials and in order to achieve an extremely light and stiff car the chassis and the bodywork are completely made of carbon fiber. At any moment, you would expect the Tramontana-R to deploy sidewinder missiles and blow it's competition right off the track. Enjoy!
SPEC Clutch: The Future of Fast
While a whole host of after market auto parts manufacturer's may offer long product lists and are well-positioned as carbon racing clutch suppliers, they are far from being the only game in town.
SPEC Clutch, a US-based designer and manufacturer of some of the most durable clutches on the market today don't just blow smoke—they are more than willing to prove their products through testing on the bench or on the race track.
According to Dick Breakey, who recently installed a SPEC Stage 1 in his '89 Mustang, "I love it. [Even though I'm] still in the break in period, I can already see how well it grabs. Even for a completely stock car this would be a great addition."
The Alabama-based clutch and flywheel manufacturer is always working to stay ahead of the performance needs of the sports car market . In fact, just last month they announced new clutch and aluminum flywheel assemblies for the Subaru BRZ, Scion FRS, Toyota 3SGTE and Audi RS4.
Drivers looking for a multi-plate clutch assembly know what they are after; a no-nonsense clutch that is challenging to engage and can hold crazy amounts of power. There really is no other reason to run a multi-plate unless you are engaged in competition or have a high horsepower street car that sees a lot of track time.
"We developed a line of twin and triple plate carbon fiber clutches that debuted at SEMA '09" says Marketing Manager, Shelly Norton. "The need was there in the market because there are so many high horsepower cars needing low inertia and manageability."
Carbon plates are generally considered to be superior to traditional materials for a number of reasons. The first being as soon as you install the clutch, it requires no break-in period. This is perfect for competition drivers, the lack of break-in (typically 500 miles of careful driving) means your car can get out there and shred up the track sooner, rather than later.
Carbon plates also don't develop hot-spots because of their superior heat dissipation. Their resistance to heat means that they will clamp the same in competition and will not slip even under the most extreme conditions in high-horsepower cars.
For information on clutch basics from THMotorsports.net, click here.
SPEC Clutch Types Available At THMotorsports
|SPEC Clutch Stage 1
Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Drift, Road Race, Rallye, Pulling, Autocross
Features an integrally molded carbon kevlar-based, high performance organic lining that offers smooth engagement and excellent life. This lining has an integrally bonded steel backing for strength under high clamp loads and temperatures. The hub is double sprung with spring cover relieves for flexibility and heat treated components for strength and durability. Best for street and many track/off-road applications.
|SPEC Clutch Stage 2
Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Pulling, Autocross
Features segmented or full faced pure Kevlar disc with steel backing. This lining features excellent drivability like the stage 1, but offers slightly longer life and higher torque capacity. The hub is double sprung with spring cover relieves for flexibility and heat treated components for strength and durability. Best for street, drag, pulling and autocross.
|SPEC Clutch Stage 2+
Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Pulling, Autocross
Features a multi-friction disc in a full faced configuration with carbon semi-metallic on one side and Kevlar on the other. Bridging the gap between stage 2 and stage 3, the 2+ offers drivability and engagement quality characteristic of the stage 2, but with a 15-20% higher torque capacity. The hub is double sprung with spring cover relieves for flexibility and heat treated components for strength and durability. Great for street, drag, autocross, road racing, pulling, rallye and drift.
|SPEC Clutch Stage 3
Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Pulling, Autocross
Features a carbon semi-metallic 6 puck sprung hub disc that has been the leading puck clutch in drivability, life and torque capacity. This unit is designed for street and race cars that require an aggressive but streetable engagement and high torque capacity. The hub is double sprung with spring cover relieves for flexibility and heat treated components for strength and durability. Also available in 3 puck configuration. Great for street, drag, road racing, pulling, rallye and drift.
|SPEC Clutch Stage 3+
Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Pulling, Autocross
The flagship stage for a high powered street or race car that requires a manageable and friendly engagement, the stage 3+ features a carbon semi-metallic full faced material that offers unparalleled life, friction co-efficient and drivability characteristics in one single package. The hub is double sprung with spring cover relieves for flexibility and heat treated components for strength and durability. Great for street, drag, drift, autocross, road racing, pulling, rallye and drift.
|Stage 4: Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Pulling, Autocross
This unit is a solid hub version of the stage 3. The hub is solid 8-rivet and the assembly is heat treated for strength and durability. It is available in a 3, 4 or 6 puck configuration. Use the 3 puck for the lightest option or the 6 puck for the smoothest engagement. The 4 puck is a good compromise for both. Street drivable in 6 puck configuration, but not street friendly due to the rigid hub. Best for drag racing, road racing, pulling, rallye and drift.
|SPEC Clutch Stage 5
Types of Driving:
Street, Drag, Pulling, Autocross
Features a full-metallic disc with the highest possible friction co-efficient. Street drivable but not street-friendly. The hub is solid 12-rivet and the assembly is heat treated for strength and durability. Best for extreme street and drag racing.
Source: www.SPECClutch.com
Installation GuideIf you're a racer—or even if you've even dreamed of hitting the track—you know that the clutch is the vital linkage between the engine and the transmission. If you don't have it installed or adjusted correctly, you can lose horsepower and wear out the clutch prematurely.
It's always important to remember that attention to detail, thorough examination, and replacement of all worn clutch system components can eliminate immediate off-the-lift problems and prevent premature clutch failure. Remember, it's always important to follow manufacturers' guidelines for clutch removal and replacement as each car can create unique challenges. The guide below will walk you through the steps of installing a SPEC clutch in a C1 Corvette.
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Clotamin™ can be taken with blood thinning medications without affecting International Normalized Ratio (INR) levels. Unlike most multivitamins on the market, Clotamin™ is a multi vitamin without k. Vitamin k is a blood-clotting agent that can thicken blood and interfere with blood thinners.
Each bottle contains a 2-month supply (60 caplets).
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LMG, Inc. recently designed and built twelve HD/SDI graphics computers. With SDI and HD video outputs, the advanced equipment is flexible. The computers are equipped with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 HD/SDI video card, and allow standard graphics such as PowerPoint slides, to be output into a high-definition show environment.
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Hundreds of weary passengers are back in Atlanta Tuesday morning after mechanical problems caused their Delta Air Lines flight to be diverted."It was a long flight."There's really no other way to describe what these passengers endured for the last 12 hours. Delta Flight 81 started off with a two-hour delay in Brussels. The trip didn't get much better from there. Passengers were informed of the Boeing 767 having mechanical issues. Then, the flight was diverted to land in Canada.A passenger said, "We had to stay in the plane for some time because there was no Customs present, and then they told us that the new plane was coming, and that we should leave in two hours. It didn't leave in two hours. It took some time longer."The mechanical problem couldn't be fixed there. They had to send a replacement plane. The plane didn't leave until four hours later, but arrived safely in Atlanta about 3 a.m. Tuesday – with an aircraft full of very weary, but very grateful passengers. One Flight 81 passenger said, "It took a long time, but in the end all was fine. So, I think they did a great job to get us back."Another passenger said, "It happens. That's just life in travelling. You have mechanicals. You have weather delays and, you know, you just try to make the best of it."Two hundred passengers, eight attendants and two pilots all landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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University of Georgia baseball player and former Columbus High star Kyle Carter is in trouble with the law again.
Jail records show he was booked into the Athens Clarke County Jail shortly after 1:00 a.m. Sunday for under age possession of alcohol and public intoxication. This is Carter's second arrest.
He is being held on a $1000 bond for the misdemeanor charges.
In August, Carter was arrested for having a weapon in a school zone, a felony. Christopher Lakos, a UGA athletics department spokesman, said Coach David Perno "is aware of the situation with Kyle, and he's looking in to the matter."
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