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Suggestions for Rehearsal Dinner???
Original post made by mach1mary on Apr 10, 2009
Good food and ambience are the keys, though pricing is right in there, too.
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on Apr 10, 2009 at 8:12 am
A friend of ours used the Pleasanton Masonic Center and a caterer called A Tasteful Affair. They said they had an outstanding event. It was decorated nicely and the food was outstanding. A Tastful Affair has a website but I don't know their phone number. You might consider them. Hope this helps.
on Apr 10, 2009 at 5:39 pm
We used to have a meeting at Girasole once a month, and I can't rave about the food. They didn't seem to put a lot of effort into making sure we were happy. It was nothing special.
on Apr 10, 2009 at 8:38 pm
My advice to you is don't get married. She will sick the life out of you and will nag you to death. She may seem fine now but she will change and not in a good way. The wedding day will be the best then it's all down hill from there.
I'm just kidding being married to the right person makes for a great marriage. I've been married 14 years and I would do it all over again.
on Apr 13, 2009 at 5:34 pm
What about Taco Bell or KFC?
on Apr 14, 2009 at 7:23 pm
My second recommendation is Redcoats. Very nice.
on Apr 15, 2009 at 2:10 pm
How many people will be invited? You might check with Bella at First Street Cafe (next to Graham Piano & Pleasanton Glass). The restaurant is small, but the food is excellent and she does private functions as well.
If you have a bigger group, what about DeLatorre's at Hopyard & W.Las Positas?
on Jul 15, 2009 at 12:11 am
Maybe consider Eddie Papas. They have a great bar area, the prices are reasonable, and the service is great. They personalize their clientele, and their menu is unique. It also has the ambiance that you might like for a rehearsal dinner.
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I like Pete Wehner's writing a lot. I don't always agree with him, but I often do, and I always enjoy the way in which he develops his ideas. This column, about the post-Vietnamesque horrors that Obama is cheerily planning for Afghanistan (although I'd say the Taliban will be even more savage than the North Vietnamese) is a perfect example of Wehner at his best.
How did I get it so wrong?
When I read about Obama's drawing down troops so that he'd send tens of thousands home right before the election, I said that I didn't think this would make the troops vote for him. Barry Rubin kindly pointed out that the calculation wasn't to get troop votes, but to get votes from his antiwar base. Barry's right, of course. That's obviously Obama's calculation.
What I've been wondering is how I managed to get it so bass-ackwards. I'm usually at least slightly more astute than that. I think it's because my instinct is that, when push comes to shove, the anti-war crowd is going to vote for Obama regardless. After all, despite his getting us into a third war, and one that was unnecessary for promoting America's interests (although withdrawing early from that one will be yet another black eye on America), Obama's base has not taken to the streets. They may grumble, but they're not using war as a means to undermine his presidency.
These Leftist voters are going to support the Obama "package" no matter what. While a few may be one issue nutroots, with their issue being the war in Afghanistan, the vast majority are true Progressive believers. They may decry the war, but they'll still go with the guy who hits all the other sweet spots: Big Government, abortion, climate change, bows to dictators, etc.. There is no way in Hell that they will abandon that package in favor of a conservative candidate. In other words, whether Obama leaves troops in Afghanistan, or withdraws them despite all military advice, his decision will not change what the base does.
As for the non-base, meaning the mushy Democrats and the disengaged Independents, even those who don't like Afghanistan aren't going to change their vote based upon a troop draw-down. These people are looking at the economy. If it's good, they might vote for Obama; if it's bad, they won't. The numbers in Afghanistan will be irrelevant to that calculation.
In other words, withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan puts Americans in harm's way for no good reason. The nutroots will vote for him regardless, and the rest, although not thrilled about Afghanistan, won't let it affect their votes one way or another.
The psychology of war and warriors *UPDATED*
Peter Wehner writes about Obama's decision to draw down troops in Afghanistan, something that (just coincidentally, of course) will take place right before Obama's reelection bid. Wehner is appalled, and he explains that this gross political calculation isn't the way it needs to be:
I have the advantage of having served a president during wartime. And whatever faults one might be tempted to lay at the feet of George W. Bush, he never allowed politics of the Obama kind to infect his decisions. I know of what I speak. In September 2006, with the midterm elections approaching and the war of Iraq floundering, Senator Mitch McConnell, then the Republic whip, asked to see the president alone in the Oval Office. "Mr. President," McConnell said, "your unpopularity is going to cost us control of Congress." When President Bush asked McConnell what to do about it, McConnell said, "Bring some troops home from Iraq."
Four months later, Senator McConnell got his reply. President Bush – who faced far more ferocious political opposition to the war than Obama ever has – not only did not withdraw troops; he increased them while embracing a strategy that came to be known as the "surge." And he blocked every attempt at a premature withdrawal.
There are many factors that explain why the Iraq war turned around, but the fortitude of President Bush surely ranks high among them. That quality looked impressive then; it looks even more impressive now.
Apropos that not so coincidental timing, the conventional wisdom is that the troops, grateful to return home, will cast their votes for the Democrat who made it so. I wonder if that's true.
Obama has consistently proven himself profoundly ignorant of the military mindset, something that's true for most Leftists. Leftists are feral fighters, not principled fighters. While feral fighters will fight quite ferociously if threatened (which is why Leftist leadership works mightily to keep its followers in a blind panic, as with global warming), what Leftists really want is for the threat to stop affecting them personally.
Principled fighters, however, are willing to take ultimate risks for a cause greater than themselves. It's a much more altruistic approach to war, and one that sees people willing to make great sacrifices for a final goal that may not even benefit them directly.
Because Dems are feral fighters, they assume all wars are Vietnam. Back then, the draft and the upheaval in America meant that way too many Vietnam troops didn't believe in their mission, and were desperate to have a political change that would get them home. These are the kind of troops Dems recognize.
I don't think we have a Vietnam military today. Instead, our military is made made up of volunteers, who either embrace fighting generally (the adrenalin junkies) or embrace the larger existential battle raging throughout the world, a war that burns especially hot in Afghanistan. Rather than thanking Obama for bringing them home, these principled or professional warriors may resent the way Obama is dragging them away from the good fight, destroying their hard won gains, and handing victory to an exceptionally brutal enemy who will reengage us both at home and abroad.
UPDATE: Barry Rubin, after reading what I wrote, thinks there's something different going on: "Obama is NOT doing this to win votes in the military. He has no illusions about that. He's doing it to win votes from average Americans to whom he can say: I brought the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq. And it will work UNLESS those situations visibly collapse and even then it will gain votes for him." As Barry sums it up, "Obama is making a good political calculation at the cost of a strategic miscalculation."
Barry is so much more astute and well-informed than I am, that I don't doubt that he's right about Obama's calculation. However, I do wonder how the Average American (or the Progressive voter) will view Obama's involvement in Libya when making a balancing of interests. I also wonder if the ultimate pass will always be abortion. Since the anti-War protests stopped when Bush left, even though the wars continued and even escalated, I suspect that, while war is a real concern to the Democrat base, it's abortion that will always be the kicker for his core constituency. And really, when one thinks about it, that's a pretty strange issue to use as the final determiner when deciding the person for whom to vote.
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Does the administration's decision to arm the Libyan rebels remind you of anything? It does me. It reminds me of the Reagan administration's decision to arm the rebels in Afghanistan.
Back then, the rebels were not our enemy, and they were fighting a sworn enemy against whom we'd been engaged in myriad proxy wars for decades. This time, the rebels are our enemy, killing our civilians and soldiers all over the world, and they're fighting a government that hasn't does us any active harm in recent years.
Somehow, despite our pure and fairly reasonable thinking back in 1980s, I seem to recall that our decision to arm and train radical Islamists proved to have bad and lasting consequences for us. (Hint: the Taliban.) This time around, we don't even have the excuse of ignorance. The Libyan rebels we're arming, comprised of useful idiots, Al Qaeda operatives, and Muslim brotherhood members, were our active enemy yesterday; they're our active enemy today; and tomorrow, pumped up with our weapons and supplies, they'll still be our active enemy, only more dangerous.
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Years ago, in another life, I dated a man who had worked for Rolling Stone and personally knew Jann Wenner. (My ex-boyfriend claimed that a well-known Rolling Stone photographer was the one who introduced him to and got him hooked on cocaine. I have no idea if he was telling the truth or not, but it made for a good story.)
My old boyfriend had cleaned up his act by the time I met him, and was decently reticent about his past, but it was pretty clear from the few stories he told that (a) Rolling Stone personnel, at least at one time, had embraced the drug culture with gusto and (b) that it was a sleazy, counter-culture magazine. Today, all you need to do to know that it is still a sleazy, counter-culture (read: anti-American) magazine is to buy a copy at the store — or, better yet, leaf through one and then abandon it without bothering to buy it. As for the drug issues that were once a part of the magazine's culture, perhaps the drugs' legacy lives on and helps explain the shoddy, vicious journalism that routinely emanates from that saggy, flabby, 1960s era hangover.
Don't believe me about shoddy, vicious journalism? I understand that. My old boyfriend's stories about the magazine's past are pure hearsay. But right now, today, Michael Yon has actual percipient witness journalism on his side when it comes to challenging Rolling Stone's most recent smear piece about our troops in Afghanistan. Read Yon and your blood will boil.
Huge kudos to Yon, not only for his own journalism, but for his willingness to take on one of the old media's sacred cows.
Jaws of victory
Will Democrats once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Here's a very encouraging report about the latest NATO (mostly American forces) offensive in Helmand province, one of the last redoubts of the Taliban. I don't know how much play this will get in the Mass Media, as they generally don't like to talk about American victories.
I am still seething about the Vietnam War, which helped to define my generation. It was a war we won militarily at great sacrifice and lost politically, when we betrayed our treaty obligations to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. I believe that the point at which the Vietnam war was lost was when CBS's Walter Cronkite pronounced the Tet Offensive as an American defeat (it was quite the opposite).
So, here is my question: will the Democrats and MainStream Media repeat history and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, or will they play this to a conclusive victory?
Just askin'
Obama's conduct: "contemptible"
Peter Wehner describes the conduct, but I think, when you behave as Obama as, the word "contemptible" can apply, with equal aptness, to the man himself (emphasis mine):
I have praised President Obama in the past for his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. New facts have come to light since then. And, arguably, I should have better understood the true nature of the man in the Oval Office. Either way, the president, rather than distancing himself from the July 2011 draw-down date, has doubled down on it. He has said things in meetings and on the record that underscore his equivocation, his doubt, and his lack of fortitude when it comes to this war. And so it is fair, I think, to render a judgment I much rather would not: What President Obama is now doing – both escalating and undermining a war at the very same time — is not only unwise; it is contemptible. He has a constitutional duty and a moral obligation to choose one path or the other – to prosecute the war with commitment and resolve or to leave.
The president still has time, but not much.
And there's another problem with that time table in Afghanistan
Phibian, who is one one of my oldest blog friends, explains at Big Peace how the President's entirely artificial time line for withdrawing from Afghanistan not only emboldens the Taliban (and makes a negotiated peace impossible), but also destroys all good efforts at future planning in that theater.
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Is it ever moral to target civilians in warfare? *UPDATED*
My (conservative) book club read Victor Davis Hanson's A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. One of the points Hanson makes in the book is that Pericles embarked upon a new type of warfare:
Periclean strategy . . . defined the new war as battle not between hoplites or even sailors but rather soldiers against the property of everyday folks. . . . Sherman, Lord Kitchener, and Curtis LeMay . . . all argued that battle is ultimately powered by civilians and thus only extinguished when they cannot or will not pledge their labor and capital to those on the battlefield.
Hanson goes on to comment that many Athenians thought this new civilian focused warfare was immoral. Our group discussed whether including civilians as part of the battlefield was, or was not, immoral.
Our conclusion was that it is absolutely true that civilians finance war through their labor, direct (munitions factories) or indirect (economic infrastructure). If you are fighting a war to win — and you'd better be sure you believe in your cause — one of the most effective ways to win assuming equality on the battlefield is to destroy the labor/economic infrastructure. If this means pulling a Sherman by destroying the depot that not only supplies arms to the troops but also food to the civilians, you're going to do it. The same thing goes for bombing a munitions factory, even if you know civilian employees work there.
What we all had a problem with is targeting civilians simply to slaughter them, which is a Nazi and a Muslim tactic. This tactic is not meant to destroy the war's infrastructure and end the war but is, simply, meant to kill the enemy because you hate them, want to terrorize them, and don't think they are worthy of life. Unsurprisingly, when an army resorts to these tactics, the slaughter is usually distinguished by the utmost cruelty. At the end of the day, a dead child is a dead child, but I still think there's something morally different between a child killed when a bomb explodes at the IED factory next door versus a child killed when the soldiers personally toss it in the air and use it for target practice.
What do you think?
Please keep in mind as you grapple with the question that right now, today, this is not a hypothetical question. Our troops in Afghanistan have already died in unnecessary numbers because of Rules of Engagement that value the civilian population over the lives of our own troops.
If you want to see how this can result in a massive f*ck-up for Americans, just read Marcus Luttrell's tragic Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. There, the fear of running afoul of political rules that elevate Afghani lives over American lives (and that have the power to destroy a SEAL's career) led the SEALS to release an "innocent" shepherd, who promptly reported the SEALS' position to the Taliban. As a result, more SEALS died on that day than on any other day in SEAL history.
Right now, General Petraeus is trying to change these ludicrous rules that emanated from the halls of academia, rather than the real world of battle. Even as he goes forward with that effort, though, the administration is pushing an award (posthumous, obviously) for "Courageous Restraint."
It seems to me that either we raised our boys right, or we didn't. Either they have a moral compass or they don't. And either we have a decent military infrastructure that, after the fact, can distinguish between legitimate battle necessity and brutal sadism — and, after the fact, can punish the behavior accordingly, thereby setting the correct example for other, future troops.
Certainly it makes sense to have baseline rules to protect prisoners of war, such as the Geneva convention. However, to send our troops out with the instruction "Thou shalt not kill unless you're absolutely sure you're killing some who is from a properly identified military unit and who manifestly intents to shoot you . . . right . . . about . . . NOW" is insane and, in itself, immoral.
UPDATE: I just want to throw into the mix the peculiar war between Israel and the Palestinians. It is asymmetrical, because Israel has the big guns. Israel, however, allows her morality to restrain her from using those big guns. She is blamed continuously for anything she does, despite her herculean efforts to strike at only true military targets.
The Palestinians do not have big guns. Both tactically and for obvious pleasure, they deliberately target civilians. They aim their rockets and their suicide bombers at schools, hospitals and buses. When they get their hands on individuals, they subject them to horrific torture before murdering them (and this includes people they class as "traitors" in their own midst.) They are applauded continuously for their committed heroism.
This is asymmetrical warfare with a sick international audience that prefers the snuff film to the movie that has a moral to the story.
UPDATE II: And apropos Israel, an essay suggesting that she get tougher, or more serious, in her pursuit of this existential war — since it is her existence that is at stake.
UPDATE III: Caroline Glick on another facet of civilians in war, and on the will to win. (H/t: Sadie)
The official Bookworm statement on the whole McChrystal/Obama/Petraeus affair *UPDATED*
I feel I should say something, so I will. Being me, of course, what I say will be discursive.
Re McChrystal: An excellent general who didn't hit it off with Obama from the git-go (blame lies, I believe, with Obama), and who failed utterly in the diplomatic discretion category — something that's true whether you regard the revelations in Rolling Stone as big deals or little ones. Was the latter a firing offense? I don't know. It depends on how the Commander in Chief chooses to handle it. Which leads me to Obama….
Re Obama: As I noted earlier, Obama is either apathetic or agitated. One of the things about which he's never been sufficiently agitated is the war in Afghanistan. Sure, he didn't pull out immediately, but his initial decisions to announce a withdrawal time table and to refuse to meet with McChrystal until McChrystal was forced to use the media against Obama (something that probably created a bad precedent in terms of McChrystal's ideas about using the military to achieve his goals) show that he never gave a flying whatsit about American troops trying to win against Muslim jihadists.
On the other side of the scale, the things that do agitate Obama include the Joos; attempts to stop potential new Democratic party voters from sneaky in over the border and sparking crime waves; and offenses to his dignity. McChrystal committed the latter crime. Obama could have glossed the whole thing over, downplaying McChrystal's errors (as he's done with every one of his other appointees) or he could have done what he did, which is to fire McChrystal for having hurt his feelings. The only way to come out smelling like a rose from letting his ego lead was for Obama to have appointed someone better than McChrystal. Which leads me to Petraeus….
Re Petraeus: When Obama was a Senator, he denigrated Petraeus' task and, by his behavior, Petraeus himself. Petraeus, however, is the real deal when it comes to counterinsurgency, and I can't think of a better person to try his hand at Afghanistan. Peter Wehner spells out Petraeus' virtues:
General Petraeus is the man who, more than any other single individual, turned around the war in Iraq. It was a nation on the brink of civil war when he was named commanding general there — and today it is a nation on the mend. That is the result of many hands and many hearts — but no single individual is more responsible for what happened in Iraq than Petraeus. In addition, General Petraeus literally wrote the book on counterinsurgency, having authored the Army's manual on the subject. Petraeus, then, is both the intellectual architect of our COIN strategy and its best practitioner.
Beyond that, Petraeus — like McChrystal before him — has the confidence of President Karzai, which U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and National Security Adviser Jim Jones (among others) do not. He understands, unlike others in the Obama White House, that the way to deal with someone like Karzai is to support him in public and make demands of him in private. Nouri al-Maliki was no walk on the beach, either; but Petraeus, along with Ambassador Ryan Crocker, dealt with him extremely skillfully, holding him close while moving him along the right path.
What is also significant is that Petraeus has the confidence of our troops because of what he has achieved. He is not only a respected figure; he is very nearly legendary among them. The troops in Afghanistan will treat him as college basketball players would treat Mike Krzyzewski, if he took over another basketball program. There is instant trust, instant credibility, and instant confidence. And that matters.
I wish Petraeus every bit of luck available to him. Combine that luck with his skills and intellect, apply all those to the best military in the world, and there might be a good outcome here (including Obama being able to back down from his withdrawal timetable while still saving face).
Conclusion: Obama first seeded the lemons, starting with his long-ago refusal to take either General McChrystal or the Afghanistan war serious. He harvested the lemons when he elected to let his ego lead in what could have been a down-played, and therefore negligible, situation. And he managed to create lemonade by replace McChrystal with only the best general out there. Let's hope the best general chews up Afghanistan, rather than vice versa.
(Just FYI, The Anchoress has a stellar round-up of responses to the whole saga.)
UPDATE: Bruce Kesler, who understands more about what's going on than I ever could, is pleased okay with Petraeus' appointment, but would have preferred General Mattis. Blackfive thinks the timing of this whole thing is more than a little suspicious. (The first story will make you happy sanguine; the second, angry.)
UPDATE II: Was Obama just trying to keep Petraeus out of the 2012 race? I doubt it. For one thing, that's two years ahead, and a lot can change between now and then. For another thing, I have it on good authority that Petraeus is saying right now, with a straight face, that he's not running. If this is preemptive action, it's really preemptive. Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke.
My sense is that Petraeus genuinely doesn't want to run. It's a lousy job, and Petraeus isn't an egotist. He is, however, a patriot. If he feels that America truly needs his unique skills, Afghanistan will be the smallest part of the U.S.'s problems, and he'll run regardless.
Memorial Day Post: The Warriors Among Us
[I'll keep this at the top through Memorial Day. Scroll down for lots of new posts.]
Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words as part of a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished on that day:
My son, who is seven, is obsessed with superheroes. His current favorite is Superman. After all, when you're a little boy, battling your way through the world, what could be more exciting than the possibility of being "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." I'm bombarded daily with questions about Superman's ability to withstand extreme temperatures, his flying speeds, his ballistic capabilities and, most importantly, his bravery. It's here that my son and I run into a conceptual problem. My son thinks Superman is brave because he gets involved in situations that involve guns, and flames, and bad guys. I argue — and how can you argue this with a seven year old? — that the fictional Superman, while good, is not brave, because he takes no risks. Superman's indestructibility means that his heart never speeds up, his gut never clenches, and he never pauses for even a moment to question whether the potential benefit from acting is worth the risk. In other words, if facing a gun is as easy as sniffing a rose, there is no bravery involved.
The truly brave person is the one who knows the real risks in a situation, but still moves forward to save people, to fight a good battle or to remedy an intolerable situation. The attacks against America on September 11, 2001, revealed the true superheroes among us — those New York firefighters who pushed themselves past those second thoughts, those all-too-human hesitations, and sacrificed themselves in the hopes of saving others. Lt. Brian G. Ahearn was one of those superheroes.
I've been thinking today about that moment of insight I had about courage and heroism, because I'm finally reading Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. I say "finally," because the book came out in 2007, and it took me three years to gather my own courage just to read it — and I did so only because of the possibility that I may soon meet the mother of one of those "lost heroes." Considering what her son did for my country, forcing myself to read a book about great heroism seemed like the least I could do.
Funnily enough, the book isn't as painful as I thought it would be. This is partly because Luttrell, with novelist Patrick Robinson's able assistance, has a wonderful voice. His is not a ponderous tome but is, instead, a human story of an East Texas boy who, buoyed up by patriotism and sheer grit, made his way through the insanity of SEAL training, and then found himself in Afghanistan, working to protect American interests and freedoms.
Luttrell's upbringing, so different from my girly, urban, intellectual childhood is a story in itself. As for his descriptions of what men push themselves to do to become SEALS — well, I'd heard about it academically, but I'd never understood it viscerally.
To be completely honest, I still don't understand it. As a card-carrying wuss, as someone who has always respected her personal comfort zones, and avoided challenging herself, I really don't "get" what would drive young men, men in their 20s and 30s, to push themselves as hard as these men do. And the rewarded isn't a glamorous job, a la Hollywood or Manhattan, with fame, wealth and women. Being a SEAL is the toughest job in the world, because SEALs end up doing the most dangerous jobs in the world, under the worst, scariest circumstances imaginable.
If you lack physical and mental will, not to mention the overwhelming training SEALs receive, you're simply a statistic waiting to happen. But if you do have that stamina, one that resides as much in the mind as it does in the body (perhaps even more in the mind than the body), and if you have this amazing commitment to your team and your country, you can move mountains.
Or sometimes, as SEAL Team 10 so sadly demonstrated, the mountains turn on you. I am not giving away anything about the book, of course, when I tell you that Luttrell was the sole survivor of a firefight in the Afghan mountain ranges that ended up being the single deadliest day in SEAL history. Reading about the fight and the deaths of Luttrell's team member, not to mention his own story of survival, is harrowing. I don't want to say I cried, but I'll admit that my eyes were leaking prodigiously. Knowing that this would be my inevitable reaction is part of why I avoided Luttrell's book for so long. (To excuse myself a little bit, I also wasn't sure I wanted to get too close to understanding what my father experienced during WWII, as he fought in some of the worst battles around the Mediterranean, including Crete and el Alamein. Sometimes, empathy can be too painful.)
But really, I shouldn't have avoided the book. Yes, the deaths of LT Michael P. Murphy, Matthew Axelson, and Danny Dietz, as well as 16 SEALs and Nightstalkers, whose helicopter was shot down during the rescue mission, is heart wrenching, but the overall tone of the book is still uplifting. Luttrell's deep patriotism, his belief in the mission (not any specific mission, but the SEALs' overarching mission to protect and defend), his abiding love for the SEALs, and the message that there are those who are willing to protect us, often from ourselves, ranks right up there with the most cheerful "feel good" book you can find.
So many people live pointless lives and die meaningless deaths. One of the tragedies of the 6 million is that they were herded to death like cattle in an abattoir. I don't blame them. They were ordinary people, living ordinary lives, when suddenly they were ripped out of normalcy, and without warning or preparation, sent straight to Hell on earth. Had I had the misfortune to be a Jew in Poland in 1942, instead of a Jew in America at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, that would have been me. Not just a short life that made no difference, but one that ended with a death that didn't make a dent in the hide of my murderers.
Some people, however, seem to have bred in the bone and the heart the belief that they will not be ordinary in life or in death. Mercifully, these are people who don't need the tawdry fame of Hollywood. They don't need the quick fixes of drink and drugs. They don't need to become bullies who control others, whether their control is exercised over a country or an office. Instead, they prepare themselves to serve causes greater than their own egos. Their lives have purpose and their deaths are never pointless.
Because the genesis of my post is Luttrell's book, I've written this as an homage to the SEALs. Everything I've said though, can be applied equally to the men and women who have fought and, sometimes, died for America, beginning back in 1774. The fact that they didn't do it at the level of pain and training one sees in the SEALs does nothing to minimize their courage, their patriotism and their sacrifices. They are the backbone of our country, the defenders of our freedom: "The truly brave person is the one who knows the real risks in a situation, but still moves forward to save people, to fight a good battle or to remedy an intolerable situation."
(Luttrell, the sole survivor of the SEALS pictured here, is third from the right.)
Other Memorial Day posts:
Blackfive (yes, again)
Florence American Military Cemetery (slow-loading, so don't worry if nothing happens right away)
"Simplistic" and "primitive" *UPDATED*
As I've mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book's first few pages and had a very different reaction. The following passages bugged the liberal:
My name is Marcus. Marcus Luttrell. I'm a United States Navy SEAL, Team Leader, SDV Team 1, Alfa Platoon. Like every other SEAL, I'm trained in weapons, demolition, and unarmed combat. I'm a sniper, and I'm the platoon medic. But most of all, I'm an American. And when the bell sounds, I will come out fighting for my country and for my teammates. If necessary, to the death.
And that's not just because the SEALs trained me to do so; it's because I'm willing to do so. I'm a patriot, and I fight with the Lone Star of Texas on my right arm and another Texas flag over my heart. For me, defeat is unthinkable. (pp. 6-7)
[As they're taking off from Bahrain to Afghanistan:] There were no other passengers on board, just the flight crew and, in the rear, us, headed out to do God's work on behalf of the U.S. government and our commander in chief, President George W. Bush. (p. 12.)
[Of the Taliban/Al Qaeda enemy in Afghanistan:] This was where bin Laden's fighters found a home training base. Let's face it, al Qaeda means "the base," and in return for the Saudi fanatic bin Laden's money, the Taliban made it all possible. right now these very same guys, the remnants of the Taliban and the last few tribal warriors of al Qaeda, were preparing to start over, trying to fight their way through the mountain passes, intent on setting up new training camps and military headquarters and, eventually, their own government in place of the democratically elected one.
They may not have been the precise same guys who planned 9/11. But they were most certainly their descendants, their heirs, their followers. They were part of the same crowd who knocked down the North and South Towers in the Big Apple on the infamous Tuesday morning in 2001. And our coming task was to stop them, right there in those mountains, by whatever means necessary. (pp. 13-14)
The liberal felt that the above passages showed that the writer was simplistic and primitive in his thinking. The whole notion of simple patriotism offended the liberal, who also thought it was just plain stupid to seek revenge against guys who weren't actually the ones who plotted 9/11. My less than clever riposte was, "so I guess you would only kill Nazis who actually worked in the gas chambers?" Frankly, given the differences in our world views, I'm not sure there is a clever comeback or, which would be more helpful, a comeback that actually causes the liberal to reexamine those liberal principles.
UPDATE: Here's an apt quotation, written by John Stuart Mill, in 1862, as a comment upon the American Civil War:
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.


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Wade House has scheduled a cleaning weekend on May 17 and May 18. Staffers need help preparing and planting gardens, airing out quilts, making beds and sweeping floors.
The site also will offer kite-decorating and kite-flying activities as well as an 1860s-era baseball game on May 18.
Wade House is an 1860s stagecoach inn located in Greenbush in Sheboygan County.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>


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Callaway engineering was not confined to Corvette road and race cars. It also reached into the sport boating world when Callaway teamed with General Motors and Malibu Boats to produce the Limited Edition Corvette Callaway Supernatural ski boat, a 20-foot Speedster with a prominent Corvette theme. A dominant manufacturer of tournament ski boats, Malibu produced approximately 150 examples from 1997 to 2000, most of which were snapped up by Corvette owners who wanted a ski boat styled and upholstered to match their 4-wheeled rides. The Corvette styling is unmistakable: the boat's Echelon hull is fitted with a foredeck styled to replicate a C4 hood; the instrument panel and upholstery patterns in the bucket seat cockpit are C5-inspired. Actual Corvette emblems are strategically placed, and even trademark ZR1-style C4 Corvette tail lights are included. The dual exhaust carry Corvette-style extended chrome tips, while the matching trailer flashes four frenched tail lights and genuine Corvette alloy wheels with Z-rated Goodyear tires. The Malibu Corvette rips through the water, thanks to a 383/400 HP small-block V-8 prepared by Corvette tuner Reeves Callaway and adapted to marine use by Indmar. Virtually every component that comes in contact with the water is stainless steel, including the tracking fins, rudder and Malibu's unique trim plate. This hydraulically adjustable plate is recessed into the hull near the stern and adjusts down to flatten the wake for smoother skiing. This limited edition Callaway-GM-Malibu collaboration is a natural for any Corvette enthusiast with a love of true high performance boating.
- Limited edition C4 Corvette Boat
- Callaway LT1 383/400 HP supernatural engine
- GM and Callaway teamed up with Malibu boats to produce a limited number of boats from 1997-2000
- Approximately 150 produced
- Malibu response hull with closed bow and Corvette styling
- Custom instrument panel
- Special leather trim interior
- Dual thru-hull exhaust with chrome extensions
- Matching custom tandem trailer
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I was thinking the other day, "I wonder if Bethany has gotten her ears pierced yet." As usual great pictures!!
Love the pictures! I enjoy the little glimpse into your life there. I'm really envious of the warm weather! Almost 70 here today and snow and freezing rain tomorrow.


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Video: Chaos from train evacuation
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Passengers were forced to leave a Southeastern train this morning after reports of a fire.
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A spokesperson for Southeastern has apologised for the disruptions this morning. They said:
– Spokesperson from Southeastern
This was an understandably distressing event for the passengers onboard the train this morning. Thankfully we've had no reports of any passengers injured. We're fully investigating the cause of the problem to make sure this doesn't happen again– but we understand the shoe gear overheated, causing a lot of smoke to billow out from under the train. Station staff rushed to assist the passengers onboard and staff from Network Rail's nearby depot assisted passengers on the ground to evacuate through the depot."_
The fire this morning at Hither Green station was caused by equipment underneath the train overheating.
The shoe gear, which sits beneath the train and gives it power along the track, overheated in the last four carriages of the train.
Half of the passengers, on the 7.17am train from Gravesend to Charing Cross, were able to leave via the platform. The others had to leave through a nearby depot.
At least 20 people were photographed standing by the side of the train line.
The London Fire Brigade and emergency services were called to the scene at 7.56am.
As of 10am all lines have reopened but there are knock on delays.
NEW: Following emergency services dealing with a prior incident at Hither Green all lines have now reopened. (1/3) #southeastern
All lines have now reopened at Hither Green. Tube services have now been withdrawn. (2/3) #southeastern
NEW: Arrangements previously made to convey passengers by local bus have now been withdrawn as lines at Hither Green have now reopened (3/3)
Passengers were evacuated from a Southeastern train at Hither Green this morning.
The train was travelling through Kent to London Bridge.
Due to the incident, there has been disruption on Southeastern trains between London Bridge and Dartford, and between London Bridge and Orpington.


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Quarterback Andy Dalton has an outstanding performance but it is not enough as the New York Jets defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 25-17.
New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith is intercepted by Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Terence Newman.
Cincinnati Bengals running back Giovani Bernard runs up the middle for the 1-yard touchdown.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton hits wide receiver A.J. Green for a 35-yard gain.
Cincinnati Bengals QB Andy Dalton hits wide receiver Mohamed Sanu for a 43-yard touchdown reception.
The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 41-39 in their entertaining preseason opener.
St. Louis Rams defensive end Robert Quinn deflects the pass of Colts QB Andrew Luck, and Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict comes up with the diving interception for Team Rice at the 2014 NFL Pro Bowl.
The San Diego Chargers defense causes havoc for Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton, forcing two critical interceptions in a 27-10 victory.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton launches a deep ball that's hauled in by wide receiver Marvin Jones for a 49-yard gain.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton is hit while throwing, but still manages to find tight end Jermaine Gresham for a 4-yard touchdown.


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Turnbull's take two changes political climate
STEPHANIE PEATLING and HEATH ASTON Malcolm Turnbull will reclaim a senior role on Tony Abbott's frontbench after the election, having reversed his decision to leave politics.
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Stephanie Peatling Senior Coalition strategists and MPs believe they can win the election this year, reducing the Rudd government to a one-term wonder.


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A southern California transplant (where it was once a be-seen destination among celebs), this large and bustling restaurant offers an extensive menu of Japanese-meets-French specialities and sweeping Bay views to enjoy it by. The toughest decision is deciding which country to lean towards when ordering - the sushi is excellent, but the grilled meat specialities are also always tempting.
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Pleasure Island Youth Basketball: Last Week of the Regular Schedule
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Island Tackle and Pleasure Island Exercise had a close game in the 6-8 Age Division.
6-8 Age Division - P.I. Exercise Club 15Island Tackle & Hardware 14, Carolina Beach Reralty 20 Island Montessori School 5, CBPD 13 Lazy Pirate 22; 9-11 Age Division - Hines Senior Center 29 Kure Beach Pier 20,
CBDI 26 Kure Beach Pier 14, Nikki's Gourmet & Sushi 27 CB Subway 24, El Cazador 22 CloudWyze 30; 12-14 Age Division - Tuesdays Games - Superior Medical 40 Michael's Seafood 37, Costco 55 American Legion 23; Thursdays Games - Costco 42 American Legion 30, Superior Medical 43 Michael's Seafood 29; 15-17 Age Division - Allied Pest Control 55 CBPD 47, Blackburn Brothers Seafood 45 Hamm Hearing Aid 38;
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Week 9
12-14 Age Division
• 6:30PM – Superior Medical vs. Michael's Seafood – Super Medical got off to a great start in this game after taking a 9-4 lead after the 1st quarter. However by halftime Michael's was able to close the gap to 3-points 18-11 after a 14-9 2nd quarter. After halftime Michael's keep their momentum rolling and took a 3-point lead after a 14-8 3rd quarter. In the final quarter Superior's defense stepped it up and held Michael's to 2 field goals and 3 free throws, while their offense was able to retake the lead and take the win 40-37. HIGHLIGHTS: Superior Medical: #14 Jacob Reeves 17, #11 Josh Stewart 9, #12 Jarod Tanner 6, #15 Jeffrey Murphy and #3 Jake Ettefagh 3-points each, #4 Jantzen Hartsell 2. Michael's Seafood: #10 Ethan Graves 13, #3 matt Heglar 11, #13 Skii Bollinger 8, #2 Austin Johnson 3, and #4 Dimitrius Weakley 2.
• 7:30PM – Costco vs. American Legion – Costco started off this game with a 13-2 throughout the 1st quarter. In the 2nd quarter Costco continued to increase their lead outscoring Superior again 14-6 to take a 27-8 halftime lead. After halftime Costco continued to run up the score board outscoring American Legion 13-5 in the 3rd quarter and 15-10 in the 4th to take the win 55-23. HIGHLIGHTS: Costco: #12 Kevin Mintz 19, #11 Rocco Farmintino 12, #1 Bradley Plyler 9, #4 Brandon plyler 5, #3 Aidan Lafferty 4, #2 Nan Smith, #13 Jacob Hardison, #14 Vinny Farmintino each had 2-points. American Legion: #12 Kyle Carpenter 8, #13 Ryan Bailey 6, #14 Daniel Stokes 4, #11 Cade Smith Martin 4, and #1 Madison Chalmers 1.
Regular Scheduled Games
• 6:30PM – Costco vs. American Legion – Costco was able to pull away early in this game taking a 6-point lead 11-6 in the 1st quarter. The 6-point lead would hold up by halftime after each team picked up 13-points in the 2nd quarter. After halftime Costco really stepped up the defense and held American Legion to just 3-points, while their offense picked up 8 bringing their lead to 13-points. In the final quarter Costco again outscored the American Legion 10-9 to take the win 42-30. With 1 game remaining Costco is still undefeated at 8-0 and has 1st Place in the Regular Season locked up. HIGHLIGHTS: Costco: #11 Rocco Farmintino 12, #4 Brandon Plyler 10, #3 Aidan Lafferty 7, #12 Kevin Mintz 6, #4 Brandon Plyler 5, and #13 Jacob Hardison 2. American Legion: #11 Cade Smith Martin 7, #12 Kyle Carpenter 6, #13 Ryan Bailey 4, #14 Daniel Stokes and #2 Jett Tugwell 3-points each, #3 Elijah Akins, #15 Morgan Carpenter and #1 Madison Chalmers 2-points each, and #10 Ben Stout 1-point.
• 7:30PM –Michael's Seafood vs. Superior Medical – Superior Medical was able to take a 3-point lead after the 1st quarter and after another close 12-11 2nd quarter the lead improved to 4-points 21-17. After halftime Michael's was able to bring that lead back down to 3-points 28-25 after yet another close quarter 8-7. In the final quarter Superior stepped up their defense and held Michael's to just 4-points, while their offense picked up 15-points to take the win 43-29. HIGHLIGHTS: Michael's Seafood: #10 Ethan Graves 12, #14 Tyler Tranchon and #3 Matt Heglar 6-points each and #4 Dimitrius Weakley 5. Superior Medical: #3 Jake Ettefagh 13, #14 Jacob Reeves 9, #11 Josh Stewart 8, #4 Jantzen Hartsell4, #12 Jarod Taner 3, and #5 Nick Reeves, #13 Thomas Blankenbeckler, and #2 Peyton Blankenbeckler each had 2 points.
15-17 Age Division
• 6:30PM – Allies Pest Control vs. CBPD – Allied's defense held the CBPD to just 5-points in the 1st quarter, meanwhile their offense picked up 14-points to take a 9-point lead. In the 2nd quarter Allied was able to pick up 17-points bringing their lead to 31-17 by halftime. After halftime Allied was able to continue to pull away taking a 18-point lead after outscoring the CBOD again 11-7 in the 3rd quarter. In the final quarter the CBPD's Connor Garnette lead a come back fueled by his 13-points, however they came up 8-points short and Allied won by a final score of 55-47. HIGHLIGHTS: CBPD: Connor Garnette 23, #3 Drake Overton 11, #14 Braelyn Little 8, and #10 William Noxon 5. Allied Pest Control: #4 Daniel Farriss 21, #11 Jacob Graves 12, #12 Keegan Calhoun 6, #1 Sean Anderson and #13 Nick Winslow 5-points each, #3 Nicholas Golonka 4, and #5 Luke Winslow 2.
• 7:30PM – Blackburn Brothers Seafood vs. Hamm Hearing Aid – Blackburn Brothers Seafood was able to take the early lead 10-7 after the 1st quarter. By halftime Blackburn was able to stend their lead to 7-points 20-13 after outscoring Hamm 10-6. After halftime Hamm's Dustin Hancock connected on 3 3-pointers as Blackburn's lead got cut to 5-points 33-28. After halftime Hamm refused to give up, but in the end they ran out of time and Blackburn was able to remain in 1st Place with the win 45-38. HIGHLIGHTS: Blackburn Brothers Seafood: #3 Justin Blackburn 9, #11 Donovan Frances 8, #5 Kyle Dowling 6, #1 Jake Trafton and #14 Julian Blackburn each had 5-points, #2 Michael Fasano, and #10 Logan Loftin, and #12 Brice Eller 4-points. Hamm Hearing Aid: #5 Dustin Hancock 22, #12 Ryan Hardison, #4 Scott Best, and #13 Larry Davis each had 4-points, and #1 Jacob Johnson and #14 Jacob Miles 2 each.
6-8 Age Division
• 9:00AM – PI Exercise Club vs. Island Tackle & Hardware – This was a very close game with Island Tackle taking a 4-2 lead after the 1st quarter and after another 4-2 2nd quarter the teams went into halftime timed up at 6-6. After halftime P.I. Exercise Club was able to take a 1-point lead after a 5-4 3rd quarter. In the final quarter Exercise Club's Chan Dozier had a field goal that put his team up for good giving them the win 15-14. HIGHLIGHTS: P.I. Exercise Club: #10 Layth Monroe 6, #11 William Griffen 4, #14 Chan Dozier 3, and #13 Silas Jackson 2. Island Tackle & Hardware: #5 Micah Coniglio 5, #2 Rayne Schoonmaker, #10 Zane Day, #12 Kaylee Smith, and #11 Avery Saffo each had 2-points, and #13 Sam Bradshaw had a point.
• 10:00AM – Carolina Beach Realty vs. Island Montessorri School – After a 2-2 1st quarter Carolina Beach Realty was able to go on a 8-1 run giving them a 10-3 lead at halftime. After halftime Both teams picked up 2-points in the 3rd quarter followed by a 8-0 run by Carolina Beach Realty. The 20-5 win gave Carolina Beach Realty there 8th win going into the final week of the season. HIGHLIGHTS: Carolina Beach Realty: #14 Terrell Parker 10, #3 Cane Mehling and #13 Kaila Shaw 2-points each. Island Montessori School: #14 Brian Graybush and #10 Camp Lancaster each had 2-points and #13 Keaton Green 1-point.
• 11:00AM – CBPD vs. Lazy Pirate – The 1st quarter of this game was close between the 2nd and 3rd Places teams with Lazy Pirte taking a 1-point lead 5-4. In the 2nd quarter Lazy Pirate was able to pull away taking a 5-point lead at halftime. After halftime the 5-point lead remained the same after the end of the 3rd quarter after both teams picked up 3-points. In the final Lazy Pirate's defense held CBPD to just a pair of free throws, while their offense picked up 6-points and the win 22-13. HIGHLIGHTS: Lazy Pirate: #14 Carter Gracie 11, #1 Isaiah Hunter 7, and #10 Owen Morini and #13 Khalil Kelly each had 2-points. CBPD: #12 Kendall Marcucelli 6, #5 Jayce Atanasoff 4, #13 Carter Kelly 2, and #1 Talan Groseclose 1.
9-11 Age Division
• 1:00PM – Hines Senior Center vs. Mid-Atlantic Drilling – After a close 4-2 1st quarter Mid Atlantic Drilling was able to tie up the game at 10-10 going into halftime. After halftime Hines was able to start pulling away taking a 3-point lead after the 3rd quarter 18-15. In the final quarter Hines was able to increase their lead to 9-points before the final buzzer sounded giving them the win 29-20. HIGHLIGHTS: Hines Senior Center: #11 Nathan Hardison 15, #2 Dominic Farmintino 7, #1 Taj Monroe 4, #14 Cathryn Paquet 2, and #12 Mason Massey 1. Mid-Atlantic Drilling: #2 Jas Herring 9, #13 Alyssa Fizer 5, #4 Monae Pardo 4, and #1 Matthew Silver 2.
• 2:00PM – Carolina Beach Downtown Initiative vs. Kure Beach Pier – CBDI got off to a good start in this game after going on a 6-2 run throughout the 1st quarter. The 2nd quarter was a little close with CBDI adding another point to their lead now at 12-7 by halftime. After halftime CBDI's offense picked up 10-points, while their defense held Kure Beach Pier to just 3-points giving them a 22-10 lead. In the final quarter both teams picked up 4-points giving CBDI the win 26-14. HIGHLIGHTS: Carolina Beach Downtown Initiative: #5 Nicolas Ruscetti and #10 Kyle Reighard 6-points each, #4 Jacob Chalmers and #1 Jack Garcia 4-points each, #2 Elijah Poe, #13 Nicolas Schwenker 2-points each. Kure Beach Pier: #5 Owen Davis 5, #1 Chad Fleshman and #11 Maddox Greene 3-points each, #13 Mason Johnson 2, and #10 Patrick Furbay 1.
• 3:00PM – Nikki's Sushi vs. CB Subway – This was a close game with Subway taking a 5-2 lead after the 1st quarter. However by halftime both teams were tied up at 15-points when Nikki's outscored Subway 13-10. After halftime the same close play continued with Nikki's taking a 1-point lead 19-18. In the final quarter Nikki's was barely able to hold off Subway and took the win 27-24. HIGHLIGHTS: Nikki's Sushi: 33 Kyle Schoomaker 14, #12 Brynn Little 4, #13 Sam Martin, #1 Nic Lamendola, #2 Coleman Lamendola, and #4 Mason Brooks 2-points each, and #5 Ben Testori 1. CB Subway: #2 Harry Smith Martin 18, #14 Dion Wallace 3, #10 Leo Baggie 2, and #3 Jacob Baugher 1.
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My memory might be failing me (after 22 years of long life), but I don't think that I have had the pleasure of listening to hip-hop coming from the great state of Oregon. Whether I've had that geographic pleasure yet or not, from now on I'll certainly remember Sapient, a unique producer/emcee from Portland gracing the Booth for the first time with his new single, Universal Diorama. As you might have already guessed by his unusual name, Sapient is not your average human being, or artist, on Diorama. The beat provides evidence of his boundless creativity as he laces his bars with synths, organs and sparse drums occasionally reminiscent of some ATlien's craft work. Speaking of bars, the man's vocal adaptability ("I can change in a blink, I am.. universal"), which alternates from slow rhymes to soft singing, should ultimately be exactly the reason this Beaver State representative is here to stay. If you found yourself intrigued by this Universal Diorama, be sure to check out Sapient's oddly titled new album, Barrels for Feathers, available now (it dropped on August 31).
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The Nye County Water District is pleased to sponsor the 2014 Devils Hole Workshop in Furnace Creek along with support from the Death Valley Natural History Association.
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Two Death Valley Plants Saved by the Endangered Species Act
Two unique and rare California desert plants, the Eureka dune grass and the desert primrose, are being considered as candidates for delisting from the Endangered Species Act. The endemic California species was threatened by OHV activity and competition from invasive species but appears to have made a strong recovery.
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The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input to help inform and shape the development of alternatives for a management plan and environmental impact statement for the Saline Valley Warm Springs area of Death Valley National Park (Park).
The purpose of the proposed plan is to provide a basis for managing this remote yet popular area of the Park, balancing the protection of unique natural and cultural resources with public health and visitor use at the Saline Valley Warm Springs. Park staff encourages people to be specific in the comments by referring to specific elements in each preliminary alternative.
The preliminary alternatives can be viewed at NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment website: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/devawhere comments can also be submitted. The NPS has extended the comment period for this phase of the planning process until April 27, 2014.
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Well, have I got a surprise for you. How about another $80?
The proposal currently on the table would raise cost of an annual pass to $140.
If you want a good opportunity to say something about this, it would be Tuesday, March 6, at 10:00 am, at the BLM Barstow Field Office during the meeting of the Dumont Dunes Technical Review Team.
In years past the Barstow Field Office could rely on some reasonable level of State of California OHV funds for managing the busy Dumont Dunes area. However, this year at the last minute some pet projects were re-scored by the environmentalist majority of the commission that awards the annual grants, causing the regular funding for Dumont Dunes to be eliminated entirely. Unfortunately, with the need to provide services, maintenance and facilities for the 30,000+ people that visit on peak weekends, the BLM Barstow Office has seen the area's expenses bloat to over a million dollars per year. The stark reality is that without the California OHV funds they have come to depend on, the only options for the BLM are to raise fees or reduce services at Dumont Dunes. Currently, there are two tiers of fees for recreating at Dumont Dunes: a seven day permit costs $20; and an annual permit is $60. Under this fee schedule the BLM was able to raise only $414,000, net of earnings by the fee collection contractor. The BLM will be suggesting a new fee schedule that includes three tiers: a three day pass for $30; a ten day pass for $50; and an annual pass for $140. Through this new fee schedule the BLM proposes to raise the entire $1 million necessary to cover all of the agency's expenses at Dumont Dunes. For the family that trolls into Dumont Dunes four times a year with $250,000 in personal property, the additional $80 per year is not going to make them abandon their very favorite activity, or even cause them to go elsewhere. Then there is Cindy Barton, who sits with me on the BLM's Ridgecrest Steering Committee. She and her family visit Dumont Dunes from Trona in their pick up truck, with one quad strapped down in the back. Cindy describes her family as the "only ones at Dumont Dunes that sleep in a tent". The $80 increase will severely bite into their family recreation budget and would likely cause them to have to reduce the number of their visits to make up for it. I'm hearing the same from some who live in Baker and Barstow. They are feeling pushed out of what was once a source of inexpensive recreation on their local public lands. Perhaps a $30 three day pass every now and then will have to suffice for those of less means or less financial commitment to the activity. I'm also concerned about the impact of the fee increase on those simply passing through along the old Tonopah and Tidewater railroad berm. This decades long, designated route of travel now conveniently defines the eastern boundary of the Dumont Dunes OHV open area. Everything immediately east of the T&T is designated Wilderness which is off limits to all motorized travel. Retracing the old T&T railroad is a popular four-wheel drive activity, one that an ordinary SUV can successfully complete. From Ludlow to Beatty there is but one stretch that is off limits to motorized travel, which is through the sensitive Amargosa Canyon. Fortunately, the designated Sperry Wash Road provides a suitable detour for vehicles looking to continue along the T&T on their own personal journey through history. Should the BLM implement a fee increase it must ensure free passage for motorized passage along the T&T railroad between the Valjean Valley and Sperry Wash.
Which leads to my biggest concern about the fee in general, and that is the chilling impact that the fee has on day-users. Dumont Dunes used to be a wonderful stop for those exploring Southern Death Valley, particularly for those traveling to Furnace Creek from Baker. Once the $20 toll was put in place, casual multiple use touring all but ceased at Dumont Dunes. At previous TRT meetings, I expressed my desire to see Dumont Dunes return as a destination for ordinary passersby, but the BLM did not hear me. Rather than take this golden opportunity now to fix this problem, there no proposal for a day use pass, and the entrance fee increase to $30 will now certain close Dumont Dunes to any day user that is not a "duner".
As a member of the Dumont Dunes Technical Review Team what I find most revolting is not the large fee increase, but what has caused the need for such a large increase, and that is the loss of OHV funds from the State OHV Commission.


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Everything is believable but not everything is worth believing in.
Our ignorance divides us but our understanding unites us.
Darkness and light are easiest to understand by the gray turbulence between them.
The scales of justice are cumbersome. The scales of common sense pass no judgment, but rather tip to and fro on each individual's belief.
Every note from disaster's harp plows a deep furrow into the memory of every witness.
Darkness pulls us from beyond the lowest lows. The light pulls us from beyond the highest highs. Our souls are stretched taught between the two extremes, but as long as we have something to believe in, we will never break.
We didn't give up immortality. We fumbled it on the first yard line. Reality recovered the ball and ran it in. Reality also made the next kick-off before we could get downfield to line up. I think the referees were amused just as much as the lone owner of both teams.
Take note of the ability for a single human being to make seriously bad mistakes. Now, add a few billion more humans to the mix and what do you have? A species it's hard to have faith in. Still, our 200,000 year run can't be a fluke, can it?
Humans are like bulls. Life is like a china shop. Do the math.
An ounce of prevention is a massive counterweight to ruin.
To err is a very powerful human trait.
Blind faith is still a very visual experience.
Ah! Love! The emotional leviathan! It tramples the rest of our emotions into filthy pools of senselessness that it then proceeds to walk dry.
Behold! Hatred! The "juggernaut-in-a-pebble"! Its' epic survival is a product of the ease with which it can be taken up and skipped infinitely across any body of water.
Anger is powerful glue. It usually sticks a lot of things together that we naturally keep apart. Its' only redeeming quality is that it never dries.
Compassion! It removes all veils. It plays the chimes better than the wind. What it gives is always off the scale. It bundles negatives together and tosses them over the horizon for a while. If you have any, please use it.
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A Louisville man has been arrested after he pawned several items taken during burglaries of autos.
His arrest reports say on April 23 James R. Thorpe, 32, pawned a Nikon camera valued at $600 that was reported stolen about five hours earlier. Thorpe is also charged with pawning a bass guitar with $550 stolen on April 24 and circular saw worth $200 taken on March 11.
Thorpe was charged May 7 with three counts of receiving stolen property.
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Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller will be on the cover of the Mar. 4 Sports Illustrated, and will be featured in a story by Thomas Lake, according to the magazine. Lake's article will detail Miller's difficult past and his rise to a Heisman contender on one of college football's premier teams.
This will mark the sixth time an Ohio State quarterback graces the cover of Sports Illustrated, and Miller is the fourth to do so. Troy Smith was the last in 2006 and Art Schlicter was the first in 1979. Craig Krenzel appeared on the cover three times in 2003.
Ohio State's football program has been featured on S.I.'s cover 15 times overall, with the most recent coming in 2011. Miller's should be far more positive, as that cover focused on Jim Tressel's scandal with the Buckeyes.
Miller improved his skills in the passing game to emerge as a dual-threat for the Buckeyes in 2012. He completed 58 percent of his passes for 2,039 yards and 15 touchdowns as a sophomore. Miller also added 1,271 yards and 13 touchdowns on the ground for undefeated Ohio State.
The soon-to-be junior has been begged at 7:1 odds to win the 2013 Heisman Trophy, second behind the 2012 winner Johnny Manziel. Miller should get more press this season as his Buckeyes are no longer banned from the postseason and will be among the favorites to usurp Alabama from the college football throne.
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Hello all! By now I'm sure you're aware that the biggest, most bad-ass show of the summer is THIS weekend! Rockfest has become the largest one day music festival in America thanks to you! That being said, I know that Rockfest sold out in only 10 days (which surprised the hell out of us too...again thanks to you, that was awesome!!) and I know a lot of people were waiting for that next paycheck to buy some tickets but didn't get the chance. So, I thought I'd fill you in on some opportunities we have for you get your hands on a pair.
Of course, you can always win them on-air by being the 9th caller at the right time...nothing you don't already know, I'm sure, and we'll have LOTS of chances. BUT, we will also be out and about the next couple of days with more chances!! Paul will be out TONIGHT (Wednesday) from 8p-10p at Howl At The Moon down at Power & Light. We'll have the Rock Ambulance out in Belton from 5p-6p tomorrow (Thursday) at MTS Auto Mall. And, Moose will have some tickets tomorrow (Thursday) from 7p-9p at Fuel off of 119th in Overland Park. Also, don't forget that hotel packages are STILL available at 989therock.com!! This is a great chance to pick up tickets to the show, official Rockfest t-shirts AND get a great hotel room at the Hyatt which is nice and convenient to the grounds!
So there you go! We would like to see all of you out at Rockfest and hopefully this helps everyone looking for tickets get their hands on some.
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