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Hosting your best friends Bachelorette? Planning any event can be both an exciting and hectic time for you, but hopefully these tips will help!
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Take a tour of Sochi's Olympic Park with KCRA's Deirdre Fitzpatrick.
KCRA's Deirdre Fitzpatrick reporting for Hearst Television stations across the country from Olympic Park.
Sochi's Olympic Park is open to the public, but people need a ticket to come in and get a tour.
The park is called the coastal cluster, with the Black Sea just a few minutes away.
A behind-the-scenes look at Hearst Television's Olympic setup.
Here is another look at Hearst Television's Olympic setup. This is where reporters, like Deirdre Fitzpatrick, go live for stations across the country.

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You should consider yourself lucky that you were in a place like Sierra Leone and not in Nigeria, where the robbers would have come equipped with proper assault rifles (leased from the police), rather than knives, with the clear intention of murdering you even after you'd have given them everything they asked for. And where, if you were lucky to escape death, the police would have arrested you as a "robbery suspect" with the aim of extracting "bail money" from your family. Or where, if you were really lucky, they'd have merely told you they had no stationery to record your complaint - again, with the aim of extorting money from you for an investigation that would never have been undertaken.
THE thieves came just before three o'clock in the morning. They scaled the compound walls, skipped past the guards and broke through a security grill on a first-floor balcony. I awoke to see shadowy figures with torches in my bedroom. I shouted for the guards. The men came closer but then fled, dropping a knife and the boltcutters they had used to force their way in.
No one was hurt, but the thieves made off with a laptop, and my wallet, telephone and watch. For the insurance claim I needed a police report. I was reluctant to go to the police station; my previous encounters with the Sierra Leonean force had consisted mostly of my refusing their requests for bribes when they pulled my car over. But I needed the report.
At Freetown's Congo Cross police station we explained our situation. An officer informed us that we would have to pay 150,000 leones ($34 dollars) to get a crime report. I protested. He insisted it was not a bribe and that we could get a receipt from the Central Bank for the payment. I objected again. I was foolish, the officer said. He pointed out that in the west travellers are charged a commission when they change money at the airport. Why should it be any different here?, he asked. I capitulated.
The constable who eventually took our statement had large earrings and frustrated literary ambitions. The first draft she produced described the intruders as "gallant". A later version put the value of the contents of my wallet at $40,000 rather than $40. But we got there in the end.
There was an element of the absurd to the whole procedure. But the Sierra Leonean police, an institution that I, and many Sierra Leoneans, would go out of their way to avoid, performed better than I had expected. Afterwards I found out that the payment for the crime report may be distasteful, but it seems to be policy, rather than a bribe. Locals are charged a third as much as foreigners but 50,000 leones (just over $11) is still a high price when many live on less than a dollar a day.
While I have little hope that the thieves will be caught, I did receive the paperwork I needed within a few days, which by the standards of west African bureaucracy is swift. In a country where government institutions are often spectacularly dysfunctional, that is no small achievement. Posters proclaim the Sierra Leone police to be "A Force for Good." With a presidential election coming up next year, they will need to be.


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Here is a translated letter from Mark Madsen to Ricky Rubio. The original letter was in Spanish, but was translated below the fold from babel fish.
(Ed Note: I bumped this up because it's an interesting letter. Madsen spent his Mormon mission in Spain and he writes a nice letter to Rubio. Also, while you're over at his site, check out the post where he says some interesting things about the possibilities of being traded and the up-tempo future of the Wolves.)
Greetings from Minneapolis Minnesota. I am called Mark Madsen and I have been six years playing for the Timberwolves. Perhaps I have left perhaps a year or two years but like professional player since I have 33 years of age already. But I can say a thing to you: when David Kahn selected to you in fifth position in draft, there was very many people here who put themselves animated by the possibility of your arrival to Minnesota very. Your future companions of this team also we are animated so that play here.
During the past few years I have served like representative as my team's union as the players (NBPA). So I understand some very well of the pertinent considerations and the contract clauses. I would simply like to communicate alungunos points that I hope that she helps you to decide to come this year to Minnesota to play.
First: You can arrive here and immediately to have a great impact in transforming this team of a less effective team to a special team. Personally, many years ago and when I was in the institute, I played against Jason Kidd. Throughout carerra of Kidd, it is gandao through his disinterested style much and the way in which he passes the ball much to cause that their companions get to be better. I know that you are the played type of that quire to win and wants to help your companions to that they are the successful. As you already know, that characteristic is little common in the NBA, but you have your it than I have seen of you. Vente to Minnesota.
Secondly: The fans of Minnesota want that you come! This team is not the Team of Minneapolis nor of St. Paul. This team is of the whole state of Minnesota. I played much here during year 2004 in playoffs when we were on the verge of gaining it everything. It is possible that if Sam Cassell had not had its injury that there would be win everything. During that then, the stage was full. Agricultures and cattle dealers came from far like the heads of very great businesses of the city. You can be part of the search of the championship and can cause that atmosphere of illusion and spectacle returns.
Third party: Economically I know that you must much consider, and try not even I include/understand the complexities of your present contract and the others. But I know that when playing against our national team recently time, and when having as much success, was much people been unidense who remained impressed with your talents and your competitive spirit very. I understand that what interests to you is to win, but with respect to contracts, really the first contract of the NBA is completely fixed but once players fulfill first his, then they can negotiate two or three contract multiannual ones. In my opinion if a very young player as your career can fulfill its first early contract in his, is more favorable because they are left you more years to play a very high level. If you can "go to the well" three times instead of two during your career, already you see, is better.
Quarter: A month ago, it specifically left a article in Wall Street Journal describing aspects the sport world and the competition of Spaniards in the sport world. In order to clarify, we are created here very competitive also, but having lived in Andalusia from 1994 to 1996 I very well clearly have the competitive spirit of the Spaniards. The fact is that if you came I believe that you would help that many young people in Minnesota and the United States will take hold to basketball and other sports here and to play with more creativity and some of the qualities that are mentioned in this article.
This morning left the news Spain saying that it was the possibility that you still come to east Minnesota year. I hope that the legal things with your present equipment can be solved, and although I have still not found a restaurant with perfectly authentic paella, nor Mountain ham, Minnesota is a good place and you will not pass cold so that literally you will go from your garage to your sport utility vehicle (SUV) to the sessión of practice!
Saludo Mark Madsen


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The Nautilus U514 Upright Exercise Bike sells for around $365. Exercise bikes are used for home fitness and mimic the movement of biking while staying in one place. Exercise bikes work lower body muscles, some of the largest in the body. This increases metabolism and calorie burn. When exercise is paired with a reduced calorie diet, weight loss can occur, but the Nautilus U514 Upright Exercise Bike is not that different from other, less expensive models.
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The Nautilus U514 Upright Exercise Bike comes with 16 levels of resistance and 20 programs. Hand and chest heart rate monitors make it simple to track the effect of exercise on heart rate. The maximum user weight for the bike is 300 pounds. The seat is relatively small, but users can switch out the factory seat for a cruiser bike seat for added comfort. The display unit shows heart rate, miles biked and current speed. The unit is brightly lit so the dieter has no trouble reading the information on the screen.
This bike has all the bells and whistles, but what is does not offer the dieter is dedication to work out every day. There is no diet program included with the Nautilus U514 Upright Exercise Bike. Dieters must follow a reduced calorie eating plan in order to lose weight using the machine. If the dieter chooses to continue eating unhealthy foods in large portions, they will not lose weight no matter how many hours they spend on the exercise bike.
The Nautilus company does not mention a money-back guarantee, but the bike is covered by a 10 year frame warranty, 2 year parts warranty and 1 year electronics warranty. The price is higher than the average home upright exercise bike, but this could mean the bike is sturdier than other models or it could mean the dieter is paying more for the Nautilus name.
- Exercise bikes work lower body muscles.
- The price is comparable to higher end exercise bikes.
- Comes with a strong fan and multiple heart rate monitors.
- The dieter must find a reduced calorie diet to lose weight.
- The bike is more expensive than some dieters can spend.
- Working out every day on an upright bike may grow boring.
If it is raining outside or you simply don't want to get dressed for the gym, the Nautilus U514 Upright Exercise Bike is the perfect choice. The unit is sturdy but does not take up a lot of space. Unfortunately, it does not come with a diet plan or a personal trainer to keep the dieter dedicated to working out. The price could also be a bit high for most dieters.


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Brakes & License On Dolly?
Posted 18 February 2012 - 02:06 PM
Thanks Cecil
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Posted 18 February 2012 - 02:53 PM
Two different answers. Sates recognize the licensing statutes of other states (assuming you are not registering out of state just to avoid state taxes). So, if your car, motorhome and dolly meet the statutes in your home state, you are good to go.
But, brake requirements, as well as length, weight, speed, etc follow the laws of the state/province in which you are driving.
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Posted 18 February 2012 - 03:45 PM
I know this weight because it is on the test for your Class B Operators License in Texas.
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I'm a newcomer myself to FMCA, and I tow front wheels up. I have an ACME tow dolly with surge brakes. It has lights, but no plate. Oh yea, I tow a mini-cooper. I drive a 35' CLass A MH, Gas v-10.
I traveled roundtrip from MA to FL in 2010 with my to dolly. I have also traveled to VT, NH and ME with my tow dolly. I have yet to encounter any issues with state troopers or of the like while towing. I don't know the laws for each state about towing, but thought I'd share my personal experience with you using my to dolly.
Hope this helps,
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The only states that list No Reciprocity are, Colorado, Delaware and Georgia. From the first link!! You will need to check into more info. in those states for more details.
Hope this helps R.M.
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North Carolina
Every semitrailer, trailer, or separate vehicle attached by a drawbar or coupling to a towing vehicle of at least 4,000 lbs, and every house trailer weighing at least 1,000 lbs, shall be equipped with brake controlled or operated by the driver of the towing vehicle.
BTW I have sent a email to Towing World several time but they have not corrected their chart
Michican and Texas are also listed as "no requirements" and I belive that it is not correct.
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As for license plates, I have a 5X7 Utah trailer that does not require plates in Utah. I tow it behind my California pickup. I've only been asked once by a CHP where the plates were while I was in a rest area. I said it's a Utah trailer and he drove away without asking for the paper work. State troopers and Highway Patrol with any experience is going to know the states that do not require plates on smaller trailers. They will see your rigs plate and not give it a secont thought.
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I have just under $425 plus about 3 hours labor in the brakes, just good insurance for me. Electric would have been cheaper but I have them for my farm pickup truck and not real happy with them.
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Rand Paul and the Gutless Generation
Rand Paul and the Gutless GenerationTownhall.com ^ | July 14, 2014 | John RansomPosted on 7/14/2014, 9:49:22 AM by Kaslin
Ron Paul to make acting debut in 'Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?'
Ron Paul to make acting debut in 'Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?'New York Daily News ^ | Friday, June 20, 2014 | Ethan SacksPosted on 6/20/2014, 3:51:29 PM by nickcarrawayThree time presidential candidate joins Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in third installment of trilogy based on Ayn Rand's 1957 novel
Liberal Hollywood will have to make room for a new star — right-wing politician Ron Paul.The three-time presidential candidate will make his acting debut in "Atlas Shrugged:
Who Is John Galt?," the third installment of the films based on Ayn Rand's novel."Atlas Shrugged is a fantastic book, but it's much more than a story — it's a philosophy," Paul told the Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news…..
Genetic Devolution | Dave Hodges – The Common Sense Show
In this grand experiment that we have been dragged into kicking and screaming by those who would attempt to devise the perfect human, the perfect animal, the perfect plant, by
manipulating their basic genetic structure to suit a preconceived design, we are being led by babies in adult diapers who have no understanding of the very things that are crucial in revealing the perfection that is sought.
David Ruben — A Prison for Your Mind, Part 7… "Denial is a form of mind control! Is it too late to regain our freedom? No, but the answer is painful. It comes down to a …"
The question is: why do the overtly corrupt have such a stranglehold on the human race?
All around the globe, there are political and religious zealots that delight in terrorizing, torturing and murdering people. In America, perversion and corruption are rampant, and violence is commonplace. Even in your own home-town danger and crime hovers somewhere nearby. The question is: why… why do the overtly corrupt have such a stranglehold on the human race, and exactly how did the virus of immorality gets into our lives and our world — and most importantly, what is the way out so we can be truly free? The path has always been and always will be the same for everyone. Each of us is born with a unique, separate awareness of being. Some find meaning, live a good and rewarding life, and die well, while others turn toward a different destiny. Why?
Why so many people – including scientists – suddenly believe in an afterlife
Why so many people – including scientists – suddenly believe in an afterlife
Maclean's ^ | May 7, 2013 | Brian Bethune
Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 2:00:54 PM by rickmichaels
Death, it seems, is no longer Shakespeare's undiscovered country, the one "from whose bourn no traveler returns."
Not according to contemporary bestseller lists. Dreams and visions of the afterlife have been constants across human history, and the near-death experiences (now known as NDEs) of those whose lives were saved by medical advances have established, for millions, a credible means by which someone could peek into the next world.
Lately a fair-sized pack of witnesses claim to have actually entered into the afterlife before coming back again to write mega-selling accounts of what they saw and felt there.
The Neoconservative Movement Is Terrorism in Its Political and Metaphysical Sense | Veterans Today
"'And all arithmetic and calculation have to do with number?' 'Yes.' 'And they both appear to lead the mind towards truth?' 'Yes, in a very remarkable manner.' Then this is knowledge of the kind for which we are seeking, having a double use, military and philosophical; for the soldier must learn the art of number or he will not know how to organize his army, and the philosopher also, because he has to rise out of the transient world and grasp reality, and therefore he must be an arithmetician."
"Then my noble friend, geometry will draw the soul towards truth, and create the spirit of philosophy, and raise up that which is now unhappily allowed to fall down. Nothing will be more than likely to have such an effect."–Plato,
The Republic[1] One of the reasons why mathematics is interesting most particularly geometry is that it enables individuals to make logical deductions and connections.For example, if both pairs of opposite angles of a quadrilateral are congruent, then it follows logically that the quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
(Reader Response: Gunny G) ~ Rand Paul: Voters Ready for libertarian Republican
Dr RP's son alright!
But is he another lesser of evils?????
Time will tell, but on whose time/dime will he prove disprove?
In America's case, it's Bro Can Ya spare A Dime?
Sen. Rand Paul will deliver the real message, as RINO Rubio delivers the GOP-e boilerplate message
Sen. Rand Paul will deliver the real message, as RINO Rubio delivers the GOP-e boilerplate message
2/11/2013 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist
Posted on Monday, February 11, 2013 2:29:28 PM by Laissez-faire capitalist
Yep, Sen. Rand Paul – some Libertarian leanings and all – (and not all bad, either, especially with his middle of the road approach on foreign policy, him being neither interventionist nor isolationist) is certainly not a shill for the GOP-e… and we have had enough of that.
What is going Galt? definition and meaning
Expression for undergoing a voluntary financial strike or decrease in income.
An individual might choose to do this in order to protest the amount of money going to the government, or to protest what they feel are unfair taxes (if they earn less, they will be taxed less, therefore hurting the government).
The term is taken from a character in Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged"; the main character John Galt leads a movement where the wealthiest individuals leave their jobs for low-paying jobs in order to protest the socialist economy.
Cohabiting with a Monkey – henrymakow.com
As you have probably guessed, George is an animal that has served as a vehicle for my consciousness for some 62 years. I figure he's got about 18-25 years left before he expires and I must hitch another ride.
Paul McGuire — Armageddon A Space War Coming To You Soon, Part 4
Billions of people on planet earth, whose minds have been captured by interdimensional and psychological/spiritual warfare, will experience an acceleration of cognitive dissonance, as their consciousness undergoes a violent and sudden paradigm shift.
Mass confusion will begin as entire populations see things materialize that they have been indoctrinated into believing do not exist. William James, an American philosopher and the father of American psychology wrote in 1902, "Some years ago, I myself made some observations on this aspect of nitrous oxide intoxication and reported them in print. One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever since remained unshaken. It is our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
The 'Lesser Of Two Evils' Con-Game
The moral relativism of the "lesser of two evils" philosophy has been draining the heart and soul of America for decades…it has become apparent to me that the talking points and propaganda that drive the hypocritical worldview are being utilized on an even grander scale than ever before.
The aim of progressive education is explicitly to indoctrinate
John Dewey, widely considered the father of modern American progressive education, wrote the following in his 1916 book "Democracy and Education" : (Page 82, middle paragraph) (Gutenberg text)
It is the aim of progressive education to take part in correcting unfair privilege and unfair deprivation, not to perpetuate them. Wherever social control means subordination of individual activities to class authority, there is danger that industrial education will be dominated by acceptance of the status quo.
Now this doesn't sound too bad, I suppose. Extreme inequalities? Who wants that? Well, Dewey also further explains this on page 63:
4. The "Individualistic" Ideal of the Eighteenth Century. In the eighteenth-century philosophy we find ourselves in a very different circle of ideas. "Nature" still means something antithetical to existing social organization; Plato exercised a great influence upon Rousseau. But the voice of nature now speaks for the diversity of individual talent and for the need of free development of individuality in all its variety. Education in accord with nature furnishes the goal and the method of instruction and discipline. Moreover, the native or original endowment was conceived, in extreme cases, as nonsocial or even as antisocial. Social arrangements were thought of as mere external expedients by which these nonsocial individuals might secure a greater amount of private happiness for themselves.
Logical Proofs of Infinite External Consciousness | Libertarian News
The argument that you exist now but cease to exist in the future requires that at some point infinitely in the future you are perceived as not having existed infinitely into the past. If you have not existed into the past from some future perspective and do not exist infinitely into the future from your current perspective then you never have and never will exist for all infinity.
Obviously this is a logical paradox that can only be resolved by saying consciousness is external and infinite in nature.2. If you believe in the theory of Quantum Mechanics, then you believe that conscious observation must be present to collapse a wave function. If consciousness did not exist prior to matter coming into existence, then it is impossible that matter could ever come into existence. Additionally, this rules out the possibility that consciousness is the result of quantum mechanical processes. Either consciousness existed before matter or QM is wrong, one or the other is indisputably true. Regardless, it is a logical paradox to conclude that consciousness is the result of QM processes.Decoherence as an explanation results in either a many worlds or many minds interpretation.
Dr. Yaron Brook Explains Why Ayn Rand Was Right–01-27-2012
Dr. Yaron Brook Explains Why Ayn Rand Was Right–01-27-2012The Financial Survival Network ^ | 01/27/2012 | Kerry LutzPosted on Friday, January 27, 2012 4:25:57 PM by appeal2
Dr. Yaron Brook has led the Ayn Rand Institute for the past 11 years. He believes the most important debate of out time is not economic but philosophic:
you are not your brother's keeper.
Rather, your primary purpose is to the live the best life that you possibly can. This means being your own master and living on YOUR terms. You will be the most successful when you are the freest to pursue your goals and dreams. Unfortunately, this important debate is all but ignored during most political campaigns. Until we address this threshold issue, not much human progress will be made
As Dr. Brook puts it, all statistics and collectivists assume your purpose on Earth is to care for your brothers in need, whether you want to or not.
Sen. Rand Paul: Vote for my dad ("He won't falter, he won't bend"). Watch Video
Sen. Rand Paul: Vote for my dad ("He won't falter, he won't bend"). Watch Video
Hotair ^ | 12/23/2011 | Allahpundit
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2011 10:11:10 AM by SeekAndFind
Effective. A filial endorsement is endearing, if predictable, and Rand's already prominent enough as a national figure that his stamp of approval qualifies as a rare "mainstream" thumbs up for his pop.
The message is smart, too: No policy specifics, just a promise that Ron will stick to his principles because that's what he's been doing for 50 years. True enough; whatever his other faults, the fear that President Paul would "evolve" in office is absolute zero. Quite a contrast with the likely nominee…..
Roy Masters — The Poison in the Word of Authority
Now, as in the beginning, our secret reason for turning our backs on reality and common sense is our desire to know ourselves as God. The proud ego soon loses touch with natural promptings from within and begins to rely entirely on words, thoughts, and imagination for its sense of direction. And until we are ready to give up our pride, the "I," or ego-self, will find a false sense of security and hope in the ever-increasing activity of the mind, and only of the mind. Pride binds us to the futility of trying to know ourselves only through the process of thinking and imagining.
How Did Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' Predict an America Spinning Out of Control?
Ayn Rand is being hailed a prophet. How could she have anticipated, more than 50 years ago, a United States spinning out of financial control, plagued by soaring spending and crippling
How, people wondered, could Rand have foreseen all this? Was she a prophet? No, she answered. She had simply identified the basic cause of why the country was veering from crisis to new crisis.
Was the solution to "go Galt" and quit society? No, Rand again answered. The solution was simultaneously much easier and much harder. "So long as we have not yet reached the state of censorship of ideas," she once said, "one does not have to leave a society in the way the characters did in Atlas Shrugged. . . . But you know what one does have to do? One has to break relationships with the culture. . . . [D]iscard all the ideas—the entire cultural philosophy which is dominant today."
Confessions of an Actual Man, Very Sincere Too ~ Fred On Everything…
Of the various books I have inflicted on the world, my favorite is Au Phuc Dup and Nowhere to Go, the print version of which is a mess. The Kindle version is fine. Should anyone be interested, a sample chapter, clickable, is available under the cover on the right-hand side of your screen.
Like a wolverine digging at a rabbit's hole, this column seeks truth, wherever it lies. (Of course, if truth lies, how can you trust it? These are deep waters.) To this end, I have been reading feminists about what slugs men are, and bandits, and slaves of vanity, and cause loose fillings and sunspots and roach infestations. In the past I dismissed these tiresome viragos as mere creatures of bile and ill-breeding. This time, I thought, maybe I should listen to them. After all, ugly short-haired unmarried women are people too. Pretty close anyway.
AsI pondered, I was overcome by the consciousness of sin. Yes, I thought, it is true. We men are the slaves of vanity. I wanted to deny it, but I could not. The facts cannot be evaded: We, sorry male malfeasors all, are hopelessly vain.
Confess it, fellows: Men spend millions on boob jobs, on moisteurining lipstick that gives us the freshness of the roses of morn, on perky push-up bras that divide and lift at the same time. Yes, we do…..
via Fred On Everything.
Ayn Rand on the topic of a female president (via ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984+ ~ (BLOG & EMAIL))
Ayn Rand on the topic of a female president
Ayn Rand on the topic of a female president
Ayn Rand on the topic of a female president:
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2011 3:17:39 PM by ReformationFan
Ayn Rand's response when asked about the topic of a female president.
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Why Hillary Cannot Be POTUS; The arnold Amendment, etc.
via BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984(+): Ayn Rand on the topic of a female president.
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
Pesky Truth ^ | July 19, 2011 | garnet92
Posted on Sunday, August 14, 2011 1:36:33 PM by Sudetenland
Over the past couple of months Rick Perry has been considering a run for POTUS. As of Thursday, August 11, it looks like the decision has been made and he's in.
via Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry.
Ayn Rand's scary vision of government coming true
Ayn Rand's scary vision of government coming true
Ayn Rand's scary vision of government coming true
coachisright.com ^ | April 17, 2011 | Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:28:03 AM by jmaroneps37
While you were sleeping, your industrious federal government was busy establishing new guide lines for 2011 washing machines that, according to my source, cut down on efficiency, deceive the customer into thinking hot is hot, cold is cold, and make her lights flicker.
Doing things on the sneak is a characteristic of the Obama administration that I find especially odious, and this "Energy Efficient Washing Machine" two step is cloying to say the least. My source, who is most reliable, reports she bought a new basic model, and was shocked to discover after doing her first load of laundry, "when set on HOT, the sensor automatically adds COLD along with the hot." The warm is a mix of both and the COLD SETTING ADDS HOT AS WELL."
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Whittaker Chambers 1957 Review of Ayn Rand
Whittaker Chambers 1957 Review of Ayn Rand
Whittaker Chambers 1957 Review of Ayn Rand
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/ChambersAynRand.php ^ | 1957 | Whittaker Chambers
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Big Sister is Watching You BY Whittaker Chambers
Miss Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead. Despite a generally poor press, it is said to have sold some four hundred thousand copies. Thus, it became a wonder of the book trade of a kind that publishers dream about after taxes. So Atlas Shrugged had a first printing of one hundred thousand copies.
The news about this book seems to me to be that any ordinarily sensible head could possibly take it seriously, and that apparently, a good many do. Somebody has called it: "Excruciatingly awful." I find it a remarkably silly book. It is certainly a bumptious one. Its story is preposterous. It reports the final stages of a final conflict (locale: chiefly the United States, some indefinite years hence) between the harried ranks of free enterprise and the "looters." These are proponents of proscriptive taxes. Government ownership, Labor, etc. etc. The mischief here is that the author, dodging into fiction, nevertheless counts on your reading it as political reality. "This," she is saying in effect, "is how things really are. These are the real issues, the real sides. Only your blindness keeps you from seeing it, which, happily, I have come to rescue you from."
Since a great many of us dislike much that Miss Rand dislikes, quite as heartily as she does, many incline to take her at her word………………………
via Gunny G: BLOGGER 1984 +: Whittaker Chambers 1957 Review of Ayn Rand.
Geraldo Rivera changes mind on AE911Truth and BuildingWhat
AE911truthNovember 15, 2010Geraldo Rivera surrenders his attitude against AE911Truth and BuildingWhat on building 7.BuildingWhat campaign is discussed on Geraldo Nov 13 2010.His guests are Bob McIllvaine and Tony Szamboti.Geraldo Rivera who for so long has vocally opposed 911Truth has changed his mind.
Rand Paul: 'We've Come to Take Our Government Back!'
Rand Paul's victory speech in Kentucky.
Alan Watt: The Neo-Eugenics War On Humanity
Alan Watt continues to divulge his fascinating in-depth insights into how culture is created from the top down and used by the elite to manipulate and pervert natural human instincts towards their own ends. Every change in culture, right down to fashion and music, points out Watt citing Plato, had to be authorized and promoted from the top.
This science of mass mind control is still taught today by the insiders and mediums such as television are used as weapons of social control to prevent humanity from ever realizing its full potential.Alan Watt: The Neo Eugenics War On Humanity alan2Watt talks about how the elite technocrats plan for the long term, in 50, 100 and even 150 year cycles in which to implement the different aspects of their agenda, and how each cultural shift was deliberately timed to be implemented at a certain time. The current cultural bombardment surrounds the emergence of neo-eugenics, with big foundations and organizations like the Optimum Population Trust pushing the idea that humans are superfluous, virus-like, and therefore worthless.
Alan Watt: The Neo Eugenics War On Humanity alan3Watt discusses how sperm counts across Europe and America have dropped at an alarming rate of up to 80 per cent over the past 50 years, and how the media's complete ignorance of this crisis proves that it was authorized as a deliberate program of de-population. Watt traces the program back to its origins in the 1950's, where synthetic female hormones like estrogen were put in baby foods by companies like Proctor and Gamble, as well as baby milk bottles washed with Bisphenol A, the very substance that attacks male genitalia and prevents it from developing properly. Watt also outlines how Bisphenol A in women's cosmetic products contributes to toxifying their bodies, leading to an environment for male babies that leads them to have a reduced sperm count or even become sterile.The foundation of the agenda can be discovered in the writings of people like Bertrand Russell and the Huxley brothers, who talked about the need to sterilize the masses as far back as the 1930's.
Watt also divulges how the elite's ultimate goal for every human allowed to be born is for them to serve the state and be deceived into accepting this enslavement as a natural form of existence. The elite's greatest fear is that the "inferiors" will out-breed the "superiors," which is why they continually push neo-eugenics and are obsessed with inter-breeding to keep their own genetics intellectually pure.
The Other F-Word
In an article adapted from his debate last week with Peter Singer and Maggie Little on the moral status of the "fetus," Professor Finnis explains that outside of medical contexts use of the word "fetus" is offensive, dehumanizing, prejudicial, and manipulative. It obscures our perception of moral reality. Moral status is not a matter of choice or grant or convention, but of recognition, of someone who matters, and matters as an equal, whether we like it or not.
The last time I had the opportunity of discoursing with Peter Singer was in May 1998 in the Philosophy Society at Oxford, right behind the College where we were colleagues for a while in the 1970s.
The topic in 1998 was "Brain Death," and we had a fair measure of agreement that the contemporary tests and criteria for brain death are an unsatisfactory guide to…
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office."– AesopAs the recent Pentagon scandal makes all too clear, truth is treason in the empire of lies [1]. Which is why attempting to shoot the messenger – by imprisoning the whistleblower [2] and/or slandering the publisher [3] – makes perfect sense for an arm – indeed, the very arms – of the United States government.
So if we are to understand its logic as all of its actions, however insane, are perfectly logical to it, we must understand the pathology that lies at its core. For unless and until we do, we cannot understand why government per se – i.e., the state [4], defined as "a monopoly on the use of force within its borders" – does what it does; why its functionaries lie so shamelessly on its behalf; and, most importantly, why its presumed masters – We the People – put up with it.We begin by amending Friedrich Nietzsche's blunt statement – "Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen" – with a simple substitution of one word with another – i.e.,
"Everything the State says is a lie because everything it has it has stolen." Being no less blunt, let us examine this statement to determine its verity. First of all, every thief is by definition a liar, since thievery – the dishonest taking of property belonging to another person [5] – is itself a lie. It follows, then, that if one steals for a living, one also lies for a living, the question being why the state is not condemned by the general public for this reason, given that it has nothing beyond that which extracts from society under threat of fines and/or imprisonment.
The answer is that a particular lie has been told, so well and for so long, that for all practical purposes the question is not even asked. Yes, the application of the lie is questioned – is such-and-such amount in such-and-such form appropriate – but the fact, the existence, of the lie is not questioned, no further proof needed than that it stands side-by-side with death as one of the two certainties of life.
Thomas R. Horn — Forbidden Gates, Part 11
As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better result than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently.
At that stage, the machines will be in effective control. People won't be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.[2]
Crazy or not, Kaczynski may be right in that man's demise at the hands of machines will happen gradually, during which time we humans will become the proverbial frogs in the kettle set to boil.
On the other hand, we are more likely to be reduced any day now in the blink of an enhanced eye to the status of domestic animals in the minds of artificial intelligence, as Technological Singularity—that magical future moment that many futurists and tech experts believe could happen soon—gives birth overnight to some version of the artilects, who suddenly come online as conscious, living super-minds, immensely more powerful than human beings.
The Reluctant Anarchist by Joseph Sobran
Of course Chesterton was right. You love your country as you love your mother – simply because it is yours, not because of its superiority to others, particularly superiority of power.This seems axiomatic to me now, but it startled me when I first read it.
After all, I was an American, and American patriotism typically expresses itself in superlatives. America is the freest, the mightiest, the richest, in short the greatest country in the world, with the greatest form of government – the most democratic. Maybe the poor Finns or Peruvians love their countries too, but heaven knows why – they have so little to be proud of, so few "reasons." America is also the most envied country in the world. Don't all people secretly wish they were Americans?That was the kind of patriotism instilled in me as a boy, and I was quite typical in this respect. It was the patriotism of supremacy. For one thing, America had never lost a war – I was even proud that America had created the atomic bomb providentially, it seemed, just in time to crush the Japs – and this is why the Vietnam war was so bitterly frustrating. Not the dead, but the defeat!
The end of history's great winning streak!As I grew up, my patriotism began to take another form, which it took me a long time to realize was in tension with the patriotism of power. I became a philosophical conservative, with a strong libertarian streak. I believed in government, but it had to be "limited" government – confined to a few legitimate purposes, such as defense abroad and policing at home.
We have been all too familiar in recent years with the phenomenon of Big Government Conservatives, of people who have betrayed and seemingly forgotten their principles and their heritage in a quest for power and pelf, for respectability and for access to the corridors of power, people who have moved inside the Beltway both in body and in spirit.
Not all of us however are familiar with an allied and far more oxymoronic development: the acceleration and takeover in the last few years by Big Government Libertarians, who now almost exclusively dominate the libertarian movement.
The weird thing about Big Government Libertarianism, of course, is that it clearly violates the very nature and point of libertarianism: devotion to the ideal of either no government at all or government that is minuscule and strictly confined to defense of person and property: to what the ex-libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick called "ultra-minimal" government, or what the great paleolibertarian writer H.L. Mencken called "government that barely escapes being no government at all."
How extensive has been this development, and how in the world could such a thing happen?
The Ultimate Red Pill Will Break Your Trance!
In the film 'Waking Life', Alex Jones was allowed to candidly speak his mind about the state of our hypnotized culture, injecting his political revelations into the mainstream consciousness. Now, the Infowars team has expanded that animated rant to illustrate many of the issues he discusses, capturing the zeitgest of a politically-manipulated reality.


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We were on the scene when a police chase ended in Cordele Thursdayafternoon.
Gene Robbins was arrested when the chase ended at the Crisp CountySheriff's Office.
Investigators say itstarted with a domestic violence incident involving a woman in his car inAshburn.
The couple drove toCordele where the woman got out and asked for help at a business.
Cordele Police say whenan officer showed up to question Robbins, he drove off striking the officerwith his side mirror.
"Police officerswere able to catch up with the van and a chase ensued. The chase continued onout into the county. From there another car was struck at a stop sign. Thechase continued on where he had finally stopped here in the Sheriff Officeparking lot," said Ben Bray, Crisp County Sheriff's Office.
Robbins will be charged with aggravated assault of a policeofficer, hit and run and driving without insurance. More charges are likely.
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For all the grief the tech industry has given Microsoft about its lack of Windows 8 apps (yours truly included), here's a funny thing: Most Windows 8 users aren't even using so-called "Metro-style" Windows 8 apps.
That means they are mostly using Windows 7 apps via the Windows 7 "desktop" mode, according to new research from Soluto, a startup that helps people remotely manage Windows devices.
Soluto looked at the activities on 10,848 Windows 8 machines and discovered that about 60% of them don't even open one Windows 8 app per day. Those who have a Windows 8 tablet, versus those with Windows 8 on a laptop or PC, use Metro apps more frequently. But some 44% still don't use a Windows 8 app every day.


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The Bishop's School tennis coach, Matt Copeland, gently guides his players in La Jolla
By Michael Ragovin
Last week I had an opportunity to watch a tennis match at The Bishop's School with coach Matt Copeland, as my guide. Before the match, he shared a little bit about himself and how high school tennis works.
Copeland said he was born in Africa and raised in England. He's been both the girls' and boys' tennis coach at Bishop's for about four years. His alma mater is Point Loma Nazarene College where he played, as well as coached, tennis.
The way high school matches are scored is a little different from the standard type of scoring we are used to seeing, Copeland said. Usually, four points wins a game (must win by two points), six games wins the set, and the first person to win either two or three sets wins the match.
High school tourneys are comprised of six matches at one set a piece, including doubles and singles. The team winning the most sets wins the match. Free substitution is allowed and Copeland said he attempts to get as many different players involved as possible. In a sense, high school tennis becomes a team sport and each player has some responsibility for the team's success.
Practice time is limited due to the players' academic schedules. This makes it difficult for some to transition psychologically between class and tennis practice. Even though Copeland addresses individual skills as much as possible, his team emphasis is on "inner" tennis, such as strategy, conduct, demeanor, court presence, attitude, the ability to learn from every experience and focus, which might be the most important lesson of all. If focus is weak then mistakes will be made; this could be costly to victory.
Copeland said he takes a soft approach to coaching, as opposed to enforcing numerous rules and regulations. For example, if a player misses a match or two, they might not start the next match. He encourages players to analyze their performances to improve their game, striving for small changes that will prepare them for CIF at the end of the year. For the most part, strategy is discussed before the match.
During the match, Copeland told one of his players, "You are taking the ball early, your body language is upbeat and you are all over it." In another instance, his comments to a player were, "You competed very hard in the second half of the match and became more confident, good body language, good energy. Keep the same attitude."
As he explained his role, "It's important for me to look at how the players take a win or a loss, and what was gained and what was learned. There is always something to learn. Everyone is different and that's why coaching is a great thing to do."
His influence will well serve his students far beyond their tennis careers.
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At almost any time in Lubbock a home or car is most likely being broken into somewhere in the city. Police tell us thieves break in every other hour and in many cases, it may be gang related.
Police tell us the average age of membership is 15-years old and in some cases kids as young as 10 have been known to join. On Tuesday, we heard from one former gang member who says it is a membership that can easily take control of your life. In addition, in many cases it can move with them from the streets into schools.
"I've been doing drugs since I was about 13 and I'm now 25," Nicholas Lopez, a former gang member and drug dealer said.
Nicholas, who was just 14-years-old at the time, was known on Lubbock streets a, Havoc, the kid who could supply the next high. "I sold drugs to kids that have rich families that are doctors. I sold dope to kids that had poor family members, white, black, Mexican it doesn't matter what race, I sold it to all of them," Nicholas said.
Nicholas adds for protection, he joined a gang. "I was part of the Southside Gang. They primarily wear blue. My brothers and family were part of it too so that's what I grew up in and called family at the time," Nicholas said.
By his junior year at Lubbock High School, Nicholas was fully involved in the gang and drug world. Therefore, instead of focusing on college entrance exams Nicholas exchanged his books for dope.
NewsChannel 11 asked, what is the street gang life like here in Lubbock? "It's bad. I mean a lot of people don't see it's going on," Nicholas said. "As a kid I dropped out of school. I was slipping by and nobody was really caring what I was doing," Nicholas added.
However, Lubbock ISD's Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Program Specialist Sara Wilson say's the district arms its schools with the tools to teach students how to make safe, positive and healthy choices. On top of that, she says each school has a counselor who works with students daily.
"They are out there every day making relationships with those kids. So if a child is red flagged or a problem pops up they can immediately intervene," Wilson said.
A motto also followed by Lubbock ISD Police.
"I understand there are some street gangs and kids who are members in your schools. Is that correct?" NewsChannel 11 asked. "That is correct, absolutely," Chief Thomas Nichols said.
Nichols says when it comes to inappropriate behavior on campus officers take action immediately. "So when it comes down to gang colors, signs and symbols in notebooks we intervene," Nichols explained.
However, Nicholas says despite these safe guards kids are still getting in trouble.
"I was hanging out at a house with 15 under age students that had all dropped out, having beer, drugs. I'm talking about pound of cocaine and weed and nobody was doing anything about it," Nicholas added.
Nicholas tells NewsChannel 11 it was the law that finally caused him to change. After spending time at a substance abuse prison, he left street gang life and now has been clean for almost a year.
NewsChannel 11 has also learned Lubbock ISD is working to get a better idea of student's delinquent actives. On Tuesday, school officials started to hand out statewide drug and alcohol surveys. In total 7200, fourth to twelfth grade students will be randomly and voluntarily sampled through Thursday.
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Thunderbolt Display (2013)
I've had a lot of fun doing these spec predictions so I thought I would do one for the next gen Apple Thunderbolt Display. Here's the changes that I think will happen:
- 27" 2560 by 1440 pixel display with new lamination process used for the new iMac.
- A whole lot thinner. Much thinner than the new iMac.
- The display sits at the same height as the 27" iMac. Currently it sits about an inch lower.
- USB 2.0 ports updated to be USB 3.0 ports.
- Firewire 800 port is dropped.
- Additional Thunderbolt port added.
- Magsafe cable updated to Magsafe 2.
- An internal graphics card (the same one that runs on the 15" MacBook Pro) so that the MacBook Airs and 13" MacBook Pro could get extra graphics performance when they plug in.
- Internal storage so it could be used for expanded storage when you're plugged in or it could just be used as a Time Capsule so your Mac would back up whenever you dock (or when you connect to the network, see below). I would want the storage to be removable by the user so if the display broke they could still retrieve their data.
- A 1080p FaceTime Camera.
- SD slot and Headphone jack so you could just plug in a MacBook, close the lid, and pretend you had an iMac.
- AirPort Extreme built in.
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The scientists tried fermenting six batches of sausages using three strains of bacteria found in baby poop and three other, commercial probiotic strains of bacteria. Studies they had done in the past established the strains they used from infant excrement were safe for people.
Specifically, the investigators made "fuet," a kind of Mediterranean fermented pork sausage commonly found in Catalonia in northeastern Spain. It resembles the Spanish fermented sausage known as "chorizo," although fuet does not contain paprika like chorizo does and is also usually shorter, thinner, less acidic and less fatty. (The sausages the researchers made had no feces in them, only bacteria cultured from the poop.)
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No companies are currently interested in commercializing these sausages, Jofré noted.
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This Week in Co-Op: Risk of No Plot
I'm a fan of games with deep stories that are full of meaning and emotion. Character development is key to keeping my attention. However, every once in a while, a game comes along and catches me by surprise....
Eric has been a gamer for as long as he can remember. His first gaming experiences were shared with his brothers on a Commodore 64 with games like Mario Brothers, Fire King, Double Dragon, and Save New York City. Eventually, he ventured into PC gaming where he expanded his experience to online gaming and participating in gaming communities. In college, he was thrown into console gaming (kicking and screaming) around the release of Halo:CE which was the start of his ultimate transition away from PC gaming. That transition was complete when he met his soon to be wife who is also a gamer. Now, you'll rarely find Eric gaming without his wife at his side, so "couch co-op" games like the Halo, Gears of War, and Left 4 Dead franchises are a staple of his game library.
When he's not gaming, he's working for a consulting firm as a software engineer, spending time with his family, or geeking out with one of his many computer related hobbies. At Co-Optimus, he is in charge of the forums where he feels at home engaging with the community.
I'm a fan of games with deep stories that are full of meaning and emotion. Character development is key to keeping my attention. However, every once in a while, a game comes along and catches me by surprise....
First of all, I'd like to thank all of our donors and team members for participating in this year's Extra Life charity marathon. The Co-Optimus community and staff continue to impress me with their desire to give to those who need it, and for that I am very thankful. Together, our team has raised $2,038 so far. We're still accepting donations until December 31, so there's still time to get your tax deductible donation in, and to help us reach our team goal of $2,500.
The Extra Life marathon started about an hour ago on the east coast, and those of us in the central timezone are about to start. There's still time to donate! We're still about $1,000 short of our goal, so please donate. All donations go straight to the Children's Miracle Network Hospital that the participant chooses.
Tomorrow morning, we're all starting our 25 hour Extra Life marathon. We're half way to our team goal of $2,500, and we need your help to go all the way. Please take a few minutes to read about our team members, and donate to Extra Life through one of their pages. Clicking on their names or picture will take you straight to their page.
Asking people to donate, whether it's money or time, is not a simple task. I find that clear, concise messages work best, but sometimes it takes more than that to convince people that a cause is worthy of reaching deep in their pockets. The Extra Life marathon is definitely a worthy cause, but people tend to get hung up on a few details. When I ask people to donate or join, I often hear the same excuses or questions. Here's a quick rundown of those, and why you shouldn't worry.
Playing video games for 25 hours straight may seem like the laziest thing a person could do, but the truth is, it's extremely difficult. The first few hours are no problem, but when you get into the teens, your body starts shutting down because it thinks it needs sleep. Too bad we can't just tell our bodies that we're gaming for a...
Co-Optimus staff and community members are teaming up, once again, to raise money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals by participating in Extra Life. Last year our team raised a total of $2,163.75, and our goal for this year is $2,500. Help us reach that goal by joining our team or donating.
The Co-Optimus staff has really taken a liking to Monaco: What's Yours is Mine. The four player online and offline co-op game earned the coveted Editors Choice award for being an all-around great co-op gem. Our staff and community have enjoyed the heck out of this game and we want to spread the joy.
I swear, whoever is in charge of setting up sales at Steam keeps an eye on our chatter here, because the past several PC co-op nights we've announced were accompanied by a Steam sale for the same game. Perhaps it's just coincidence, since Steam is always having sales, but I like to think we have some influence on the industry.
For February's Co-Optimus Community Voice, we want to hear what you have to say about all the console hubbub. What do you think about all the rumors circulating the web? What about your predictions? What will the consoles be named and what features/specs are we going to see? What features will help advance co-op gaming? Which console will be the most co-op friendly?
Master Chief and Co-Optimus Co-Op Nights have one thing in common, they were MIA for far too long. There's good news though, they're both making a return with Halo 4. Co-Optimus and Xbox Live have teamed up to bring you a Halo 4 Co-Op Night on February 7th, starting at 8PM Eastern. We'll be playing through the campaign and/or the new co-op mode named Spartan Ops. There's an event thread in our forums where you should post your gamertag and what you're interested in playing. Plan on revisiting the thread on February 7th to find people to meet up with.
Last weekend, our Extra Life team endured a 24 hour gaming marathon, and raised $2,188.75 for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Those donations are going straight to the Children's Hospitals we each chose, to help kids in need. This was our first year organizing a team, and we blew away our goal of $1,000. As someone who has personally spent months visiting my child in the hospital, that makes me very proud. On behalf of the Co-Optimus staff, our Co-Optimus Extra Life team, and parents everywhere, I'd like to thank each of you who donated, participated, or helped spread the word. It means alot to me, and it literally means the world to kids fighting diseases, disabilities, and prematurity.


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4.55/5 rDev +6.3%
Located on SE Divison, this place gets a lot of foot traffic and being right next door to Lompoc's Hedge House is a great after dinner treat spot for a good beer or a dessert item.
The best part about this place is their Belgian beer bottle selection along with a huge variety of other bottles. Not something i expected when i first went there. The one problem i have is with the price of the bottles and desserts but if you can handle a few extra bucks it's well worth it. Another big bonus is the service, they are all pretty friendly and you can either order up front or snag a small table and they will come to you. They also carry proper glassware for all that Belgian beer so enjoy!
02-09-2011 22:16:40 | More by Brewbro000
3.85/5 rDev -10%
Located on the busy beer corridor of SE Division, located next to Lompoc's Hedge House, Pix Patisseries is a homage to dessert decadence. The artisian chocolates are almost too pretty to eat, the handmade candy, cookies, ice cream make for a difficult choice. The lean and mean beer list leans heavily on Belgians. While the service tends to slow to a crawl when it gets busy, it's certainly worth the wait. The beer prices are fairly reasonable, and you might think you are paying too much for the food, but after you're done you'll appreciate its exceptional quality. I had a Duvel with the Amelie and was more than happy. If you are into beer and chocolate this is a must stop. If you have a better half with a sweet tooth like I do, then you will both leave very happy.
06-20-2010 20:01:44 | More by jdense
4.25/5 rDev -0.7%
As with other said reviews, this is not necessarily a beer bar, but is one of the coolest dessert places you can go in town, and they just happen to have a decent, albeit limited beer selection. They focus on Belgians and regional stuff, but this place is all about the desserts. Just outrageously wonderful artistic treats. The atmosphere is also great. Very quaint, hard to find a table at prime time, and usually filled with "girls night out" groups or romantic date types. The servers are wonderful as well, and I like to go here every chance I get, but not usually for beer.
06-01-2010 06:34:57 | More by squaremile
3.58/5 rDev -16.4%
OK. Full disclosure here. I love this place too, but the A+ grade is absurd (as a beer bar), and in fact it probably shouldn't even be listed on this site. That being said, I love this place, and invariably find myself stopping by for dessert after the usual outstanding meal at the Lauro (kitty corner to the Pix).
This place is pretty tiny, with just a few tables and chairs inside, and a few more out on the sidewalk in front of the cafe. There is the usual french inspired pictures and posters on the colorful walls, which adds to the festive vibe to the this place.
For no particular reason that I can figure out, this place usually has one beer on draft, as well as 20 or 30 beers by the bottle. The focus is primarily on Belgian and other full flavored, high alcohol beers, which is in keeping with the food focus here (more about that in a second). What they have is good, no doubt, but it's hardly anything remarkable. In fact, I have to confess I've never ordered a beer here... the wine selection is much more interesting and goes better with the incredible desserts and chocolate concoctions here. Service is quick, efficient and very friendly... but it's not as if the folks working here know anything about beer. OK, this Portland, so they know something, but they're much better informed when it comes to the wine and food selection.
As for the food, given the modest, informal, laid back vibe to this place, the talent of the chef here is just a bit of a surprise. The chocolate and dessert selection here is mindboggling, that's how varied and outstanding it is. However, as good as the "sweets" selection here is (and believe me, it's fantastic), the french macarons here are nothing short of genius. I first sampled their macron selection at the International Pinot Noir Celebration a few years back, and I still remember how angry my girlfriend was that I'd never taken her to Pix's previously.
What more can I say? Pix is an absolute Portland treasure and landmark... but one thing it is not, is a beer destination. Just keep that in mind while visiting, and know what to expect if you stop by. You can't help but have a good time (assuming you're not diabetic).
03-30-2010 23:49:13 | More by John_M
4.35/5 rDev +1.6%
This is a nice small cafe style place with some of the best looking desserts I have ever seen. Theres a long bench along the wall with separate small tables for two spread about along with some slightly bigger tables off to the side. Nicely decorated. The front counter has a display case showing off the amazing pastries and other desserts. They always have Rogue chocolate stout on tap to be paired with their large selection of chocolate specialties. Their beer menu has a good amount of belgians, american micros, and some other imports. The available beer that is available is easily paired with the food available. I've tried a number of their desserts and they've all been incredible. I would certainly recommend stopping in if you enjoy sweets and good beer.
02-22-2007 00:31:01 | More by Matthew
4.65/5 rDev +8.6%
Beer and Chocolate!
What more can you say?
How about Chocolate Belgian Pasteries and Chocolate!!!!??
Pix is always packed with desert lovers and beer lovers. The space is small with some sit down tables and a funky "BAR" area. Nice decor, simple.
The pastries and chocolates are INCREDIBLE! You can choose from many different styles or tarts, cakes, pastries and chocolates. Reasonably priced.
They have a large (and evolving) beer selection or different beers that could (and SHOULD) be paired with their pastries. Many Belgian beers along with well chosen German and American beers.
Confused by it all? Ask the bartender (Server) for help in matching your desert with they're beers. Staff is very beer and pastry knowledgable.
Try their St. Honore pastry with a Westmalle Triple or a Triple Karmaliet, per their description...
> St. Honoré ~ One could find this gâteau in 1840 in France. 163 years later you can find it in Portland. Puff pastry, caramelized cream puffs, Grand Marnier pastry cream and vanilla bean crème chantilly...Oui! Oui! >
Need I say more... ;-}
12-08-2005 04:37:56 | More by mashmstr2
4.33/5 rDev +1.2%
Beer and deserts... together at last.
A very very good selection of Belgian beers and a wonderful pastry and desert menu.
This is a perfect place to go with friends for a desert/after dinner drink. The other day when I was in they'd just tapped a wonderful winter saison from Dupont. Our table had a nice Framboise Lambic, two of the Dupont winter saisons, an Orval and a glass of Banyuls desert wine to compliment a couple decadent deserts.
Sitting in the stylish and funky interior, listening to stylish and funky music, drinking great beer and eating stylish deserts... does it get much better.
The only downside is that the place is regularly packed and getting a table can be difficult if not impossible at times.
12-10-2004 16:55:56 | More by SamuraiJack
4.7/5 rDev +9.8%
This place is a unusual heaven....a large cast of Belgian beer combined with world class desserts/edible art and handmade chocolates. An intimate and comfortable setting...looks like a down-to-earth pastry/chocolate store with a small resturant twist. We found about 35 beers (mostly Belgian) served from the bottle, including DeuX. One tap was offered, delivering 90 Minute IPA. A sizable host of decadent French-style specialty pastries are displyed proudly in the front case. We tried the Amelie: "Winner of the Patis France Chocolate Competition! Orange vanilla crème brulée sits atop a glazed chocolate mousse with caramelized hazelnuts, praline crisp, and Cointreau genoise" and the The Royale: "Chocolate mousse blankets a crisp hazelnut praline filling and dacquoise base surrounded by a mosaic of nougatine". It doesn't get better than this. A side case holds several chocolates, incuding thier fantastic house specialy Chocolate Drenched Drunken Cherries : cherries bathed in Kirsch (for nearly a year) dipped in fondont then bittersweet chocolate...oh yes! (I love alcohoic cherries in chocolate, and these were the best ever). The first time we went, they were serving New Glarus Belgian Red and Raspberry Tart, to my delight...probably the first time served in Portland. Turns out the owner is from Wisconsin and brought some back on a recent visit, just for her customers. Service was attentative and very knowledgable. This place is a one of a kind Portland gem, check it out.
04-22-2004 05:54:18 | More by HiroProtagonist
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Depending on whom you ask, Google already owns a large swath of your online identity, our roadways, and even a smattering of your iPhone's real estate. And if this latest rumor rings true, the company could soon take over your living room.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is working on a smartwatch (not too surprising), a previously unreleased streaming-media device called the Nexus Q, and an Android-powered video-game console, according to "people familiar with the matter." And here's one more important tidbit (emphasis added):
With the game machine and digital watch, Google is hoping to combat similar devices that Apple may release in the future, according to the people. [Wall Street Journal]
Yes, it looks like Google and Apple are once again caught up in an arms race — this time to build a console that could perhaps go toe-to-toe with Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4.
Why now? It may have something to do with the surprise success of the Android-powered, indie-friendly Ouya console, which managed to raise $8.5 million on Kickstarter. Although initial reviews of the $99 machine have been lukewarm at best, there appears to be a bit of opportunity for another entrant or two into the console wars. (Including the Oculus Rift.)
While the Journal's report doesn't list specific details about potential systems from either Google or Apple, it's reasonable to assume that they'd somehow be connected to the existing Google Play and App Store ecosystems. But if Google or Apple is hoping to compete in the console space, they will each have to offer a lot more than Angry Birds or Candy Crush.
Paul Tassi at Forbes makes the excellent point that "a console that plays phone games on a TV and one that plays actual games are not in the same league." Casual gamers who poke around on their phones are an entirely different category than the folks who can devote entire weekends to Call of Duty. No one wants to sit in front of a 52-inch television just to fling squawking projectiles at green pigs. And with consumers around the world spending some $24 billion a year on their gaming habits, Google and Apple could have a lot to gain by building potentially addictive consoles.
In the end, though, we're left with more questions than answers about what the companies might have in store. If these consoles turn out to be high end, could Google and Apple play nice with the likes of EA, Activision, or Square Enix with millions of dollars hanging in the balance? Would they even want to? What could both companies possibly offer that Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo don't already?
On the other hand, it wasn't so long ago that an ancient tech company decided to test its mettle by gambling big with new hardware to take on Nintendo and Sony. If Microsoft was able to engender fresh interest with its first-gen Xbox, who's to say Google or Apple couldn't pull off a similar feat?
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