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Spring Lake Park will expand its boundaries a second time in 2014, annexing land from Fridley to make Osborne Road the official dividing line between the two cities.
The plan for the rehabilitation and renovation of an East Main Street business has been approved.
The Coon Rapids City Council has approved four storm drainage improvement projects recommended by staff.
The Ramsey City Council during an Oct. 14 workshop OK'd city staff spending more time to seek federal and state grants for a potential pedestrian skyway over Highway 10.
The Coon Rapids City Council Oct. 21 approved the sale of $9.72 million in general obligation bonds to pay its share of this year's street reconstruction projects as well as water and storm drain improvements.
The Coon Rapids Sand Creek Park meeting originally scheduled for Monday, Nov. 10 has been canceled due to the inclement weather. According to the city of Coon Rapids, the meeting will be rescheduled at a later date.
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The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art kicks off today and runs until May 7.
Make sure and visit Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art to see a huge piece on the ground floor apparently made from nail polish, make up and self tan I believe…
It's also the only change to see Stonehenge in Scotland – as an "interactive" artwork is unveiled on Glasgow Green.
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Europe is voluntarily depopulating, not having enough children to sustain population levels. The people in the hellholes of the world will be happy to fill in the empty spaces. Soon enough, Europe will not be Europe, except on the maps.The people there (and here) have no serious interest or real will, it would seem, to keep these beggars out.A small percentage, dribbled in slowly so that they don´t form ghettos and fail to integrate, can be tolerated, or even beneficial - depending on the type of culture and values they bring with them and willingness to join the culture of their new countries. Large numbers, retaining separate cultural identities, living in ghettoes . . . . . nothing good comes of it. Wild animals will defend their home ranges, apparently modern man has been taught that this is not to be done.
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At least they didn´t talk about the TB, scabies, measles, chicken pox, and other diseases crossing our border. How long before Ebola shows up in the camp ?It´s all about numbers and birthrate.
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#2: Given the libtard call for free sex and free abortions via PP, the U.S. is depopulating too and is being repopulated by the illegal sick and gang members as well as hordes of muslims. We´re going down the drain too thanks to demonrats.
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05/21/12 – Fish LoveMay 20th, 2012 | by christopher
This is one of those strips which was a singular inspiration, which hit it's mark and then ran with it. It should be saccharine sweet, but it simply works.
Also, my housemate bought it, and so I got to look at it over the sink for a year or so before I left Olympia. :)
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I liked giving the Pudu a quiet exit from this scene, and Dee's costume was a fun reveal.
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Sometimes denial is the best route.
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Hahahaha! I love the idea of a differently sized infinities.
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…but a mental case we all love.
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It was fun making this party escalate. This strip still makes me giggle with the utter ludicrousness of it.
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As much as I'd like to adore Halloween and all things related, black and orange are not high on my lists of favorite colors.
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New from Acton Media, this video short titled "How Not to Help the Poor" discusses the root causes of poverty and how even the best of intentions can go wrong in dealing with and trying to help those in need.
New from Acton Media, this video short titled "How Not to Help the Poor" discusses the root causes of poverty and how even the best of intentions can go wrong in dealing with and trying to help those in need.
USA Today has an excellent assessment of the impact of faith-based charities in an October 7 piece titled "Faith-based groups man the front lines." The gist of the article points out the obvious to those who are still recovering from devastating hurricanes, and that's that religious charities understand and are committed to the long term need of hurricane victims.
As a Katrina evacuee myself, I have witnessed the commitment and work of Christian churches and charities perform life changing assistance to victims on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. They are able to bypass bureaucracy, adding the all important human touch in not only helping rebuild totaled homes, but improve the foundation of one's life. One of the clear contrasts of faith-based charities verse federal assistance is that it's simply a lot less discriminating in who they can help. Additionally, they are much better equipped to make decisions on the ground or at the scene by meeting specific needs of those needing help. Instead of only saying "we can do this for you", they can discern and meet the immediate need.
My father directed the relief efforts at his evangelical church in Pass Christian, Miss. At the church in Pass Christian they had an army of Mennonite, Amish, and evangelical volunteers from the Lancaster County area of Pennsylvania. My dad estimated their labor time consisted of a conservative estimate of $1.3 million, and they donated just over a $1 million in equipment and supplies. This is all from one community in Pennsylvania which was based out of one fairly small church on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Business leaders pitched in as well, as the employer of a construction company in that Pennsylvania community paid his workers through the relief effort.
There are thousands and thousands of inspirational stories from faith groups committed to hurricane relief efforts and this article captures just a couple of them. When you have churches and people driven and influenced by the Lord, there is literally no limit to their service and what they can accomplish. The USA Today article notes:
Shortly after the storm, [Julius] Moll was filling gas in his truck in a nearby town when a neighbor told him about Catholic Charities. The next day, Moll met with Catholic Charities officials who had set up a command post at Jean Lafitte's Town Hall. They told him they would gut his mother's house for free. Moll lowered his head and cried.
'I was overwhelmed," he says. "It's unbelievable how people can come in and help you.'
The ninth week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour has been completed. The ninth and final leg of the journey took the bikers from St. Catharines, Ontario, to Jersey City, a total distance of 430 miles. By the end of tour, the riders had covered 3881 miles.
The "Shifting Gears" devotional contained a key biblical point in the day 57 entry. Reflecting on the separation from family members over the 9 weeks of the tour, hope was expressed that such an experience might "make us more aware of those who are constantly torn from their loved ones and remind us that the water of baptism is thicker than family blood." As I concluded in a 2005 post, "The water of Christian baptism is thicker than the blood of natural flesh. 'Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.'" The reality of baptism sets upon a path of service to our neighbors. This is a good point of departure for discussing questions of poverty and prosperity.
A good deal of the devotional focuses on the particularities of the experience of riding a bike. This is fitting because the text was designed for use by the riders of the poverty tour. But a few weeks ago I discussed another kind of bike rider, Pastor Bike of China, who was imprisoned because of his bicycle-based evangelism.
The good news coming out of China this week is that Pastor Bike has been released. Praise God.
My concern in following the CRC Sea to Sea bike tour over the last months has focused on the relation of material poverty to spiritual poverty. This remains an open question for me regarding the social justice advocacy of the denomination. There is a real danger that the social justice focus of the Christian Reformed Church will lapse into a post-milllenialist form of the Social Gospel.
The texts and materials of the tour itself were a bit uneven on this. In the end I think the focus is rightly aimed at divine reality. But the prudential judgments about how material poverty relates to spiritual concerns remains under-developed. When Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with you," he was effectively saying that until he comes again we will always have to deal with the realities of sin and imperfection.
But he gave us guidance as to how to live in the midst of this sinful reality: "You can help them any time you want." The one lesson we should take from this tour is that there is a real and pervasive Christian responsibility to give to the relief of the poor in a way that addresses both material and spiritual realities. Give thoughtfully and prayerfully. But be sure to give. For a moving testimony on this, see "Auntie Anne's Pretzels founder cites personal faith, Bible verses as reasons to give."
Earlier this week the Detroit News reported (HT: Pew Forum) that supporters of Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and Republican candidate for this election's presidential nomination, would be meeting with representatives of John McCain in the key swing state of Michigan. Among the "battleground" states, Obama holds his largest lead in the polls here in Michigan (RCP average of +3.2).
The purpose of yesterday's meetings was ostensibly to urge McCain to pass over Mitt Romney as a possible running mate, in the interests of courting social conservatives. Debra Matney, a Huckabee supporter from Fairgrove who helped organize the meetings, said of McCain, "Who he chooses will speak volumes to us."
It's unclear, however, what effect meetings of this kind might have, as an interview with McCain published yesterday in the Weekly Standard has McCain saying that he would not rule out a pro-choice running mate like Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge.
That fact alone ought to speak volumes to social conservatives.
Meanwhile, since his withdrawal from the presidential race, Mike Huckabee has done his best to remain in the national conversation. In a recent interview with Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Huckabee had this to say about the tension in the GOP between social and fiscal conservatism:
Wallis: You've talked about public responsibility alongside personal responsibility to overcome poverty. What's a proper role for government?
Huckabee: One of the things I'm frustrated about is that Republicans have been infiltrated by hardcore libertarians. Traditional Republicans don't hate all forms of government. They just want it to be efficient and effective. They recognize that it has a place and a role.
Growing numbers of people in the Republican Party are just short of anarchists in the sense that they basically say, "Just cut government and cut taxes." They don't understand that if you do that, there are certain consequences that do not help problems. It exacerbates them.
Every law and every government program we have is a direct indictment and reflection that somewhere we've failed at the personal level to self-govern. The ideal world is where everybody self-governs and lives by the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you." If we all abided by that, we would need no other law. No one would hurt anybody. Nobody would get drunk. Nobody would abuse the speed limits. Nobody would drop out of school. It would be a great world. Unfortunately it doesn't work quite like that.
I go to a church that feeds a whole lot of people. Some kids still slip through the cracks that my church or somebody else's isn't getting to. I could be an ideological purist and say, "That's not government's responsibility." But I'm also a realist, and when all of the other social structures fail—whether family, neighborhood, community, or charity organizations—then we have by default created a demand for government to step in.
I get beat up for this terribly by the libertarians in the party. I call them libertarians and not conservatives, because I think I'm a conservative but I'm not a nut! They ask me if I want government to engage in all these social programs. No, it's not my preference. But if my choice is that government has a program or a kid goes hungry, then give me the government program. I prefer that over a hungry child. I prefer that over a child that's wheezing through untreated asthma.
If people out of generosity can do this beyond the scope of government, praise the Lord! But when they don't, then it's no different than all the nice conservatives in the gated neighborhoods who really don't want any government until their home is broken into and they call 911. That's a call to government. And then they want that person in prison for a long time. If we want smaller government and lower taxes, the best way to get there is to create a more civil social structure in which people play by the rules and self-govern.
There's a lot of wisdom in what Huckabee says here. And that interview is worth reading in its entirety, not only because it's a pretty candid look at Huckabee's positions, but also because it shows what many of Jim Wallis' assumptions are concerning the role of church and government.
I've written before about the incompatibility of anarcho-capitalism and the Christian faith, and I think Huckabee is on to something here. The problem, as I see it, has a good deal to do with the adoption of libertarianism as a comprehensive world-and-life view, and not just a political philosophy applicable to limited spheres of human existence. When your political philosophy becomes the be-all and end-all of your worldview, you run into real problems, and that's what I think Huckabee means by "hardcore libertarians." Under such ideological illusions you can't, for instance, deal adequately with the reality of positive social responsibilities that exist between persons. Political liberty becomes an end in itself, and not something, as Lord Acton would have it, that must be oriented towards a higher moral, social, and spiritual good.
That isn't to say that varieties of libertarianism or classical liberalism that don't assume the government to be something to be done away with, or that limit themselves to asking questions about the efficiency of political economy, don't have a good deal to teach us. But Huckabee's position is worth engaging, I think, if only because it resembles that of Abraham Kuyper, who in the same address could say both that "The holy art of 'giving for Jesus' sake' ought to be much more strongly developed among us Christians. Never forget that all state relief for the poor is a blot on the honor of your Savior," and, "It is perfectly true that if no help is forthcoming from elsewhere the state must help. We may let no one starve from hunger as long as bread lies molding in so many cupboards. And when the state intervenes, it must do so quickly and sufficiently."
Mark Tooley pens another brilliant critique of the latest endeavors of the religious left in this piece titled "God's Welfare State" in FrontPage Magazine. The commentary is a response marked with reason and clarity to left-leaning interfaith groups who are calling for more government programs and initiatives to tackle poverty. Tooley also notes in his piece that the signers of the letter calling for Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama to address their party conventions with a ten year plan to end poverty, are the usual suspects who equate "The federal welfare state with God's Kingdom." Tooley always seems to have a knack at getting to the heart of the issue, and he concludes by simply noting:
The left-leaning religious officials, guided by 100 years of statist Social Gospel, want to wage a government-led coercive struggle against "poverty" in the abstract. But most of their religious traditions express God's love for specific poor people, while emphasizing voluntary and relational charity towards the needy. This historic stance of these religions towards the poor understandably has less appeal to the Religious Left, which often is more preoccupied with political power than with concrete compassion.
The fifth week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour has been completed. The fifth leg of the journey took the bikers from Denver to Fremont, a total distance of 553 miles.
The "Shifting Gears" devotional opens the week by focusing on the poor. "Consider this: each one of us has far less to worry about than those living in poverty who often do not know where their next meal is coming from."
This week's Grand Rapids Press religion section had a front page story on the problem of panhandling. How ought we to treat beggars on our streets? Many in the early church, including John Chrysostom, argued that Christians were called to be promiscuous in charitable giving, leaving the consequences of ill-used money to those who received it. Chrysostom said, "For if you wish to show kindness, you must not require an accounting of a person's life, but merely correct his poverty and fill his need."
As we have moved into a modern industrial society, however, it has become clear that ways of giving that provide incentives to remain poor do not properly deal with the social pathologies of poverty. The insight that our love needs to be unlimited and abundant is a proper corrective to our natural inclinations to be miserly with love and money. But from this it doesn't follow that our giving doesn't need to be intentional and critical.
Making our compassion effective in practice is the focus of the Acton Institute's Samaritan Award and Guide programs. The bicyclists on this poverty tour will be heading through Nebraska this week. Check out effective charities in Nebraska and consider supporting program's like Hasting's Crossroads Center's 4-Phase Program (a 2006 Samaritan Award honoree), and the W.E.C.A.R.E. and Dads Matter programs (2004 and 2006 honorees respectively) of Essential Pregnancy Services in Omaha.
The fourth week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour has been completed. The fourth leg of the journey took the bikers from Salt Lake City to Denver, a total distance of 478 miles.
The "Shifting Gears" devotional at the beginning of this week focuses especially on the relationship of the church to culture. On day 22, the devotion notes that the "crucial pillars of civilization–education, family, government, and science–are in a state of decline and disrepair." This may seem like a strange claim given all that humans have been able to accomplish over the last century or so. But if you look at the moral center of all these pursuits (for no human endeavor is "value" free), then the claim begins to make some sense.
Take, for example, the prayer from day 22, which focuses on gambling and the state of Utah's position, which "forbids gambling and casinos." Dietrich Bonhoeffer once reflected on a symptom of the lifelessness of modern society when he wrote,
One gambles with the future. Lotteries and gambling, which consume an inconceivable amount of money and often the daily bread of the worker, seek the improbable chance of luck in the future. The loss of past and future leaves life vacillating between the most brutish enjoyment of the moment and adventurous risk taking.
Similarly, the day 22 devotion observes "that today's culture, including the church, has sunk into a passionless routine."
And in the same way, the day 23 devotion examines the ambivalent relationship between church and culture, although it ends on a rather optimistic note: "A hundred years ago biking was a Sabbath sin. Now our whole troupe bikes to church Sunday mornings. We, like the land, are being redeemed." Even so, a consistent theme of critique towards destructive aspects of modern life is present throughout these devotions. As the day 13 devotion concludes, "Constant busyness is not godliness."
The overall focus of the bike tour is poverty. To get involved in charities that effectively integrate faith and compassion, visit the Acton Institute's Samaritan Guide. Be sure to check out the charities working in Colorado. Denver, the destination at the end of week 4, is home to two previous Samaritan Award honorees, "Providence Homes" (2004) and "Joshua Station" (2007).
The third week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour has been completed. The third leg of the journey took the bikers from Boise to Salt Lake City, a total distance of 444 miles.
The "Shifting Gears" devotional focuses especially on the theme of discipleship, of following Jesus in this third week. One way in which we follow Jesus is in the community of disciples. And as the day 16 devotional reads, "You can share everything and take turns doing the heavy work, but without forgiveness the fellowship will never last." This gets at what differentiates what has been called the "communitarianism" of the early church from the secular visions of a socialist utopia. Only the church can rightly understand the realities of sin and forgiveness and their consequences for social life.
Day 17 quotes 2 Corinthians 2:17, "We do not peddle the word of God for profit." This is an important verse, because it reminds us of the primacy of spiritual realities to the gospel message. The devotional puts this contrast starkly: "We are not like the giants of the cosmetic industry, pushing chemicals for profit. Rather, we peddle an ancient formula, 'fragrance of life,' simply as a celebration of God's grace." I appreciate the rhetorical power of this kind of juxtaposition, but I fear that it misses the point. Paul isn't deriding business and the pursuit of profit in its own proper sphere. Instead, he's warning against allowing the principles suited for one sphere (business) to invade another (church).
To the extent that it is the successful business leaders who are implicitly understood to embody religious and spiritual discernment and leadership, this text is a much more powerful witness against the church being run as a business than it is against business as a profit-driven venture. Even so, the devotional speaks rightly when it says, "Paul's point is that we don't speak of faith to gain our own advantage."
The week concludes with a trip from Idaho to Utah. The prayer for day 20 notes that "Utah ranks first among all states in proportion of income given to charity by the wealthy. Today thank God for their generosity, and pray that the money will be used wisely and effectively by these charities."
To get involved in giving to effective charities, visit the Samaritan Guide, and take a look at the charities that are working in Idaho and Utah, including Boise's SAFE Center and Salt Lake City's Spiritual Training Program, both rated "excellent" for their Samaritan Guide entries in 2005.
The second week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour is in the books. The second leg of the journey took the bikers from Kennewick to Boise, a total distance of 321 miles.
There's a basic theme in the daily prayers from the "Shifting Gears" devotional. There is a fundamentally environmental focus, and by that I mean not just the natural environment, but the economic, political, and social environment of the areas through which the bikers progress.
For instance, the day 1 prayer (from week 1), notes the "controversial residential and building projects" that are faced by the community of Sultan "as its economic foundation erodes and the suburbs spread into the countryside." On day 8 we are reminded to "thank God our provider today for the ability to produce and distribute food within a local setting." On day 10, on the stretch between La Grande and Baker City, we are informed that "in areas like this, water runoff is a serious problem."
One basic point this underscores is that effective compassion has to be fundamentally local, in the sense that it is intimately familiar with the local contexts of the problems that need to be faced. So far the devotional has maintained a somewhat neutral attitude about the various environmental problems, which is important because it is all too easy and simple to preemptively come in from the outside and tell communities what the solutions to their problems are.
One way to help communities around the world where we don't have local knowledge is to partner with local groups who do have that expertise. Affiliation is the first principle of effective compassion, and we ought to ask of a program, "Does it work through families, neighbors, and religious or community organizations, or does it supersede them?"
The second week of the bike tour took the participants through the state of Oregon. To find groups that are focused on making compassion effective in these areas, see the Samaritan Guide's listings for Oregon, including Salem's "Mentoring Women in Prison and Released" program of Freedom in the Son, Inc., rated "excellent" in the 2004 Samaritan Guide.
Yesterday I was a guest on "The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show," a production of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), to discuss the presidential election and the faith-based initiative, with a special focus on the proposals laid out by Democratic candidate Barack Obama. A streamlined version of the interview is available for download.
After the July 1 speech in Zanesville, Ohio, where Obama called his plan for a new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships "a critical part" of his executive plans, he continued to campaign on this issue, saying that "faith-based" social service would be "a moral center" of his potential administration.
One of the groups that has faced the dilemma of phasing out faith after taking government money is the Silver Ring Thing, a Christian ministry dedicated to "offering a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as the best way to live a sexually pure life." In 2006, the ACLU settled a lawsuit with the government over federal grants to the Silver Ring Thing (SRT), on the condition that appropriate safeguards would be implemented to separate out faith elements from programs that received federal dollars.
The success of groups like SRT have made in connecting human sexuality to spiritual and emotional life makes secularists cringe, who judge that the Religious Right "has warped our sexual politics and forced even the most hardened secular humanists to sing from the Christian hymnal." You can be sure that secularists won't hesitate to use government funds to undermine the integrity of groups that see faith-based messages like chastity being the biblical standard.
In the course of the interview I refer to a paper produced by the Acton Institute about the service areas that faith-based initiatives tend to focus on, "Faith Makes a Difference: A Study of the Influence of Faith in Human Service Programs." I also borrow (with attribution) Joe Knippenberg's witticism, referring to the Obama plan as the "faith-erased" initiative.
I also discuss what I have called "the fungibility phenomenon" and the way in which the White House office sets the tone for the rest of the country. But the coup de grâce of my argument, I think, comes when I liken the faith-based initiative to the sin of simony.
Simony is commonly defined as "a deliberate intention of buying or selling for a temporal price such things as are spiritual of annexed unto spirituals." Think about this a moment. If what the government's faith-based initiative boils down to is the appropriation of the vigor and vitality of a uniquely spiritual ministry by means of offering federal money so that this ministry can be controlled and absorbed by the temporal power, that sounds very much like a form of simony to me.
Here's part of the story of Simon Magus from Acts 8: "When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money and said, 'Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.'" Peter answered: 'May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!'"
Weigh in on what you think ought to be done with the faith-based initiative in our blog poll question on the right side of the page, and share your thoughts in the comment section below.
And, honestly, I can't say it enough. Visit the Samaritan Guide and find a charity that needs your support and give it to them.


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Dorton called the current slump in consumer demand for boats "clearly the most challenging period" for boat manufacturers. In response to market conditions, Mastercraft has taken an aggressive approach to promoting its products and has not seen as sharp a drop in sales as some boat makers, Dorton said.
Overall demand for recreational boats has been in free fall for more than a year as the economy has spiraled into recession and consumers saw prices for food and other necessities increase.
Brunswick has been particularly hard hit. Since 2006 it has cut thousands of jobs and closed about 40 percent of its boat manufacturing plants, including plants in Minnesota, Oregon, Washington and North Carolina.
"We have taken a number of actions over the past few years in an effort to mitigate persistent difficult conditions in the global marine market and economy," Brunswick Chairman and CEO Dustan E. McCoy said in a statement.
The three Knoxville-area Sea Ray plants were closed temporarily in October as part of a corporate-wide efficiency effort that Brunswick said would save the company $300 million. The area plants recently had restarted production.
Despite last year's belt tightening, continuing economic deterioration forced Brunswick to take additional steps to cut costs, Kubera said.
"It's all a direct response to the market," Kubera said.
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Sandy Hook – Which Camp Are You In?Submitted by begintowin on Sat, 12/22/2012 - 15:14
It appears our colleagues here at the Daily Paul are divided into two camps.
Camp Denial (camp one), believes the entire event at Sandy Hook as told to us by the media since Friday, December 14, is a complete and utter hoax; it is a 'wag the dog' conspiracy to disguise some other nefarious purpose. Nancy Lanza, Adam Lanza, 20 school children and 6 staff/teachers are all alive.
Camp Sandy Hook (camp two), believes the murders did occur but the events as described to us by the media lack the credibility to substantiate the current theory that Adam Lanza killed everybody, including himself.
I'm in Camp Sandy Hook. I believe the murders happened. If you are in Camp Denial, there is nothing I can write to explain how and why the killings occurred because you won't believe it.
So if you are inclined to be in Camp Sandy Hook, let's correspond.
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We don't have all the details
We don't have all the details yet. The 'official story' is about as reliable as the Warren commission or 9-11 Commission.
"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy."
― Ron Paul
I'm in the, "This smells like
I'm in the, "This smells like crap," camp. The "facts," we are being presented simply don't pass the smell test. The simple questions are still not being answered, and the most basic facts about the case are still unknown. Who was Adam Lanza? Who was his mother, Nancy? Few people seem to know anything about these people.
And then you have to ask yourself how and why did the shooter have so much time to supposedly kill all of those kids?
When the first shot was fired, somebody called 911.
Who made the first phone call, and at what time? That is a matter of public record, but once again the basic facts aren't even talked about.
Ask 10 people tomorrow if they've ever heard of Adam Lanza. Half of them would say no.
Never be afraid to ask simple questions.
I'm in Camp Still Learning
But I will say that the skepticism exhibited here at the DP seems out of proportion to the quirks of the news reporting.
Perhaps there was a second shooter, a planted rifle, an extra gunman, or whatever. But, from what I've seen, the evidence is too tenuous to warrant the certainty some people are displaying here about what they take for "fact."
Analyzing video of the deceased children's parents, striving to find evidence of total insincerity and fraud, seems wholly unjustified. There is NO evidence for the whole thing being a stage play, so the fact that so many people of here have jumped on the "no children died" bandwagon indicates a hardcore cult mentality at work.
That being said, I think crying out for pictures of the corpses is also lunatic.
I'm what you'd call a 9-11 Truther, but you didn't see me scoffing at video clips of people in mourning after that day, declaring that there aren't enough tears to convince me that anyone really died. To do so would have been;
1) lacking compassion
2) lacking a sense of probability
3) motivated by an excessive desire to pride myself on finding "the Truth" (where Truth loosely translates as "the opposite of whatever the media says.")
But that's what people are doing here, about Sandy Hook.
i understand your senitment
but how would feel if one of your loved ones
had been involved in something like this?,you knew
in your heart and every fiber of your being screamed
for answers
how would you feel if you were standing there beyond the police
barriers hearing shots going off 3 hours after they said the shooters were dead? and then claimed the shooters,who were dead, were the only ones involved,the press,cops and your reps all turned a blind eye
wouldn't you want someone to help dig and find the truth?
this is where some of the ones on DP are at,standing in the gap
it is all done out of love for everyone
If we deny truth before your very eyes,then the rest of what we have to say,is of little consequence
a question
have you changed your mind since your post
sanyhook-day 4 post?
If we deny truth before your very eyes,then the rest of what we have to say,is of little consequence
I'm Not Convinced Adam Lanza Committed The Murders
Whenever a murder occurs there has to be one or more motives associated with it. Even an insane person formulated a reason to kill. Their delusional mental state acts out in anger against persons they know or don't know. At this point in the investigation we know little about the state of Adam Lanza's mind despite all the media disinformation published.
There were a report from the New York Daily News (a notorious tabloid) that Adam was taking Fanapt. That was a hoax (see: http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lanza-taking-antipsychot... ).
Another report (New York Daily News, again) wrote that Adam found out his mother had considered having Adam committed to an institution. That was a hoax as well (see: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/motive-behind-newto... ).
Russ Hanoman, a close friend of Nancy Lanza, was quoted as saying that Adam was troubled, had issues but was not violent in any way and he was a vegan (see: http://pix11.com/2012/12/16/nancy-and-adam-lanza-how-did-the... ). So Mr. Hanoman must have had some contact with Adam however minimal. What I have read consistently from people who knew Adam was that he was not violent. He did demonstrate anger from time to time but who doesn't get upset once in a while?
What I hope to read is an interview given by the physician who treated Adam stating his or her diagnosis and what medication(s) were prescribed as part of Adam's healthcare. No family member or friend of the family so far has stated that Adam had displayed any anger towards his mother. Until that happens I have no reason to believe Adam was capable of killing his mother or anyone else.
Is Adam the primary suspect? Of course. The police stated his body was found in a location for which he had no reason to be there, dressed in paramilitary apparel and had guns nearby. His mother is dead by gunfire in the house that he lived in with her. But who saw Adam shoot his mother or the staff or the children? No one has come forth and identified Adam as the shooter.
Sally Cox, a nurse at the school during an interview on the 60 minutes TV show said, "…And I just dove underneath my computer desk. The back of the desk has a small opening for, like, wires to come out. And I just peeked. I could see his feet and his legs from the knees down. And he-- his feet were facing in my direction. And I just froze with fear. And then he just-- it was just seconds and then he turned around and I could hear him walk out." (see: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57559459/60-minutes-re... ). Cox implied the shooter was Adam but did not see his face to positively identify him.
There were two wounded members of the Sandy Hook staff. One of them was Natalie Hammond (see: http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Sandy-Hook-survivor-s... ). She has not given a detailed account of what she saw or heard as of yet. Anika Sonski, Natalie's longtime friend said in the interview that she was in contact with Hammond and " … said she knows only the barest details of what occurred." The other person wounded is unnamed and we have no information about him (or her). We also have not heard from the custodian who ran down the hallway to warn the staff about the gunfire he heard or the person(s) he witnessed doing the shooting. There is an account of another individual found in the woods that has not been explained either. Who was he and what was he doing there?
The public needs to hear from these people so that we have a better picture to frame the motive(s) for the killings. The bodies are not enough because there are too many important and unanswered questions about this case.
The accidental truth will always be reported first before the hard facts are quickly scrubbed by law enforcement and the media ... then the cover-up begins
Correct -- there are two camps ...
... but not the ones you cite.
On the one hand, there are those who use TRUTH as their standard.
On the other hand, there is everyone else.
Truth is determined by facts, evidence, and reason.
Truth is not determined by emotion. Truth is not determined by demagogues who pretend to be journalists. Truth is not determined by propagandists who pretend to be national or world experts. Truth is not determined by government employees who refuse to conduct a proper investigation.
And most importantly, truth is not determined by believing someone just for the sake of believing them.
Truth is determined by facts, evidence, and reason. Period.
If all of the facts and evidence support a particular theory, and no evidence refutes that theory, then the theory has a high probability of being true.
However ...
If any fact is contrary to a particular theory, then THAT is exactly where you find out which camp someone is in: Truth Camp, or Other Camp.
Evidence can be apparently contradictory to a theory, but then be discounted by a reasonable explanation.
But ...
Such evidence should NEVER BE IGNORED. It should be examined to find out IF there IS a reasonable explanation. It cannot be ASSUMED. It must be EXAMINED.
Any person who does not follow this process is NOT INTERESTED IN TRUTH. Period.
Now, regarding Sandy Hook, there are questions that don't quite add up, but which might ultimately have reasonable explanations. If they do, fine. But if they do not, then what? Do you stick your head in the sand, or do you speak out and encourage the finding of truth -- and possibly, prosecuting anyone who may have acted criminally?
There are reports from eye witnesses that hallways were "filled with smoke." How is that possible if there were no smoke canisters?
There are reports from eye witnesses that right around the time the gunshots started, the lights and power went out in the building. How did this happen?
There are reports from ear witnesses listening to police scanner tape that the car supposedly driven by Adam Lanza actually belonged to someone else not named Lanza. Is this true? What is the story?
There are numerous reasons to be skeptical about what we are told happened at Sandy Hook Elementary. Let's get some answers before we arrive at conclusions based on evidence that does NOT seem to support the "official" theory -- especially when we already know that those who write the "official" theory have lied about other similar stories in the past, and have the appearance of doing it yet again to further their agenda of gun confiscation and violation of YOUR rights.
Fair Enough. May I Ask A Question?
My question is this: do you believe the murders concerning this case, occurred? A simple, 'yes' or 'no' will suffice.
It's not necessary to give a reason why you believe or don't believe the killings happened. I would appreciate your answer very much because I think it's important to establish a common baseline of thinking on this thread.
If your answer is, 'I don't know' or 'I'm not sure' that's okay too.
Thank you in advance.
Camp - Pain ...
... of Potemkin-like macabre deceptions and ultra-manipulations. If not; THAT would be unusual.
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What's real is always our's to discern.
Because reducing anything down to an...
either or situation always helps sort it out.
For a group that rallies a cause more evolved than the dialectic this shit is just stupid.
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain
Camp Power through Deception_OR_Camp Life Of Pi
Some believe it didn't happen, but support the "official" story. This goes for many other deceptions.
The powers that be would be in this camp...few others.
And frankly, I'm not so sure they are wrong. Sure they are lying and *we* don't like to be deceived...but we dance around the truth alot to and most of us outright lie...Santa Claus, things to make children behave, lies to get out of tickets, to keep the boss off your back, to keep competition at bay, to keep the spouse off your back, etc. We do these things because we think *white* lies work better than the truth in the long run. And they mostly do.
So the powers that be do the same to us.
I know it sucks to not be in the know...but we just aren't important enough to be trusted with big decisions. Company execs lie all the time to, ultimately, the benefit of the company...and if you are part of that company, it benefits you.
So the lies about 9/11, Sandy Hook etc. are likely coverups or distractions that actually minimize public damage and possibly benefit the masses.
Religion is the poster child of this strategy. As the Life of Pi points out (spoiler), people *prefer* the sugar-coating religious lies, because they just would rather not handle harsh truths about survival, suffering, sickness, helplessness, murder, need to kill, death, no afterlife, etc.
"benefit the masses"? How did the freedom grabs & wars...
...that stemmed from 9/11 benefit the masses?
I think, for many here, there's a type of normalcy bias involved. Most of us, based on watching the media's relationship with Ron Paul, and the way the election went down, know the entire system--media, money, military, etc.--is built around ongoing, egregious lies. We know that things like WDMs in Iraq are now admitted and commonly accepted as lies. These all involve widespread complicity and control of MANY people, and some of these hoaxes lead to incredible body counts....So the basic elements that some people say are unthinkable with these mass shootings...the same people freely acknowledge these elements exist and are at work in other spheres.
But the immediacy and the media circus aspects of this shooting are disorienting, the gains for the establishment aren't completely clear, and the tragedy is "appealing" because it involves people like ourselves....So many here don't respond with the same degree of skepticism they bring to bear when confronted with things like war, police state and socialist propaganda.
Also, from a PR standpoint, it is worth considering that for people who aren't "awake," the idea of questioning a situation where white kids are killed is like urinating on a bible. Unnecessary and sick. So, ultimately, it may not be the best course to pursue for the liberty movement...I can't make any definite statements about that. I'm in the Mencken "camp." Better to know than to be ignorant.
Lies, skepticism, paranoia and perspective.
To survive as a community of humans, at some point there has to be some trust. There is just not enough time and resources for everyone to physically verify everything that happens.
This has the result of many people becoming too trusting of authorities, and becoming uncomfortable with people who are skeptical of the facts provided by these authorities.
It also causes those in power to take advantage of that trust, and so we get alot of stretching the truth, and reframing the question. Occasionally we get out and out boldface lies, but not really that often, there is usually some hints of truth, wiggle room with definitions, backpeddling about what is is and so on. There is also mistakes - like the Iraqi WMD - where no one cared if it was a mistake, and no one checked.
But then there is Paranoia, the X-files trust no one attitude. This causes paralysis, and doesn't help anyone. Most people in this category believe in black and white lies/truth, which is a childish and uneducated perspective. Does the public really need to see crime scene photos and bodies to verify deaths ? Paranoids would never be satisfied.
So to have a reasonable perspective, you need to consider the likelihood of there being a lie, what's gained, and the ease with which the lie can be promoted. for instance, people who would have to be complicit to promote the lie. In the case of Sandy hook, there are huge numbers of people who would have to be complicit.
Now sure, the public doesn't know everything, and the media makes some mistakes in telling the story, and politicians are opportunistic but if you believe that, for instance, these specific children were not killed by Adam Lanza, you need to reconsider your approach to life.
Just like, as so many say, if you believe guns are good or necessary after this horrendous, shocking, tragic shooting, you need to reconsider your approach to life.
I'm not saying anything is definitely true or not true as far as who died and who is an actor, I'm just saying it's lame to draw some line and pretend people have to be on one side of it or the other.
And what you might call the ultimately conspiracy viewpoint, the one that holds that it's all a lie, all a TV show, isn't necessarily paralyzing. Someone who is convinced of this can still believe that, therefore, the best direction to go is to limit and disempower government. In fact, many of your most ardent Ron Paul supporters believe spreading Ron Paul's message is the only hope precisely because they believe the people in power are evil incarnate and capable of anything (the Alex Jones viewpoint).....this is, for many, an incredible motivator.
So, if you're an advocate of the liberty message, your best bet might be to not push people away because they happen to entertain ideas you personally find unrealistic or "unhealthy." They might think your acceptance of any MSM information is unrealistic and unhealthy. I think the conversation is healthy, and we should remember that we all have the same, or 99 percent the same, goals, despite the variations in our reasoning processes.
Falling prey to the idea of the excluded middle ground
is common. I stand firmly on the middle ground here. I neither believe the official story, nor do I believe that it did not occur. But I have not seen enough evidence that the murders actually took place, and I mistrust both the media and the authorities to tell the truth.
"Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." ~~C.S. Lewis
Love won! Deliverance from Tyranny is on the way! Col. 2:13-15
Not enough evidence?
What was the hullabaloo all about then? The dispatcher audio, photos of crying parents and kids, parents giving interviews on TV....
This was ALL contrived?
Maybe there is no Sandy Hook, Connecticut, either....
I doubt it was all contrived, either
once again, the excluded middle ground is the problem. The evidence for some children dieing is more solid than for others....See fishyculture's post just below mine, as well as begintowin's post further down.
"Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern." ~~C.S. Lewis
Love won! Deliverance from Tyranny is on the way! Col. 2:13-15
strawman BS there!
Only TWO camps, and I have to pick one?
Gee, can I build my own camp? I'll camp here all alone.
I don't know what happened in Sandy Hook, but I know the official story has too many holes in it for me to just "believe."
My camp wants to KNOW what happened, and so is attempting to investigate. If the media or police were doing this, there would be no need for my camp, but as the media (and government) have a LONG history of false flag attacks and lying through their teeth and now they have made it legal to use propaganda to promote their wars and well...
Now, if you want to know what I SUSPECT, I will tell you. I do not BELIEVE anything, except that I am being lied to.
I SUSPECT people died, and Adam and Nancy Lanza are among the dead. Who killed them? Don't know. Who killed the kids? Don't know. How many bullets were fired? Don't know. Did Adam die from a long gun bullet? Don't know. How many kids died where? Don't know. Supposedly 20 dead kids in 2 classes that were wiped out. One class had 16 kids. One kid was supposedly killed being a "hero" in the hall. (This is a RED FLAG.) NO ONE KNOWS what that kid was thinking, but we need a "hero" to tug on the heart strings... Anyway, we are up to 17 kids, and still have a whole classroom to account for.
As long as I am establishing new camps, let me assign you one:
People who want to sell the official story by painting those who ask questions with one brush, as if we all shared one thought.
I am really impressed with your skill at "divide and conquer tactics." Wonder where you got that kind of training?
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
Was just thinking...
Isn't there a 3rd camp?!
When Fascism goes to sleep, it checks under the bed for Ron Paul!
not in the posters eyes
there are 2,one camp asks questions
the other swallows the BS
If we deny truth before your very eyes,then the rest of what we have to say,is of little consequence
Thank You Fishy
perfectly put.
LIBERALS, Nikki Giovanni caused VT massacre
Mobbing: anybody really interested in the true causes behind school and workplace shooting needs to understand "mobbing." Read what they did to an already unstable Cho at VT. The entire english dept. ganged up on him:
Here is What I Believe So Far
1. People were murdered including children and guns were used to do the killing.
2. What was the motive? Much of the conjecture given from family members and friends who knew the Lanza family has been distorted by the media in an amateurish attempt to uncover the motive. The reporting has been 'fluid' in order to fit the crime to the reason for the killings. However I have yet to find a report from any healthcare professional who has come forward to state in an interview that Adam Lanza received treatment for a mental disorder and what drugs were prescribed for his illness. Where's the doctor?
3. The two people at the school who were wounded and the custodian who warned the teachers to flee. If anyone was able to state they saw Adam Lanza in the act of shooting the children, it would be these three people. As of yet the public has not heard from them. Why?
4. Adam Lanza allegedly did the killings. Adam is the primary suspect because his body is the only corpse found at the school that has no rationale for being there. No other shooters are in police custody. The guns at the scene belonged to his mother (Nancy). Adam lived with his mother and Nancy is dead of gunshot wounds. It all ties together very nicely. But there is no confirmed motive for Adam to kill his mother, only speculation and hyperbole whipped up by the media. Why would Adam kill his mother? If Adam was filled with rage and still wanted to lash out at society, why go to the elementary school and not the high school which was closer to where he lived? Teenagers experience the most peer pressure in high school and look for attention.
5. Compare Adam Lanza versus:
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who in 1999 killed 12 students and 1 teacher during the Columbine high school massacre (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold ) ,
Jeffery Weise, who in 2005 killed 1 security guard, 1 teacher and 5 students during the Red Lake high school massacre (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Weise),
Seung-Hui-Cho, who in 2007 killed 5 teachers and 27 students during the Virginia Tech massacre (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho)
and Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, who in 2008 killed 5 students during the Northern Illinois University massacre (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Phillip_Kazmierczak#Perp...).
6. What's similar about Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Jeffery Weise, Seung-Hui-Cho, and Steven Phillip Kazmierczak?
A. They all did not try to hide their identities.
B. They all did not try to hide their anger at society and provided proof of their abnormal behavior in social media.
C. They all had a documented history of being under a doctor's care and had received prescription medication.
7. Adam Lanza, what do we really know about him?
A. Adam hide his identity from the public (had his brother's identification on his body, hard drives were destroyed from his home computer, etc.).
B. There is no historical record that Adam was angry at society.
C. There is no historical record that Adam participated in social media.
D. There no historical record that Adam was under a doctor's care or had taken any prescription medication.
8. Conclusion – At this point in the investigation Adam doesn't fit the profile of a disturbed young man who was capable of killing. He was introverted and shy but had no criminal record. No verifiable evidence has been presented so far that points to Adam having a reason to kill his mother or the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Until other facts comes to light, I believe someone else committed the murders because that person had motive. Guess who might that be?
How do you know?
Because you saw it on TV?!
When Fascism goes to sleep, it checks under the bed for Ron Paul!
A decent summary but
1. We also know that the guns found were the ones used in the shootings.
2. The only witnesses mentioned in the press were the young children who ran out the door past the gunman. The press has not reported whether this children identified Lanza, but often eye witness descriptions from young children, who are scared, is unreliable.
3. Its true that the motives are just speculation. Investigators may or may not have more information about motives, but the press has not really cared too much about truth.
4. Everyone is looking for consistencies between all these mass shootings, as if they are the same. The problem with both the news media, and your analysis is that mass shootings like these are idiosyncratic. They are all different -including motives, circumstances, impact of social environment, etc, etc. That's why there is no real solution to these things, and they have always happened and always will. This makes determining and understanding motives often very difficult.
5. So could someone other than Lanza have done this ? Without access to police evidence and interviews with witnesses we can't say for sure and the press is not interested in telling what happened. But, the circumstance of Lanza's body at the scene says he was at least involved. I'd bet police also have fingerprints on the weapons, ballistics from these weapons linking them to the shootings and Lanza, and lack of other evidence that would imply a second shooter.
Got a mouse in your pocket? Who is "we?"
1. "We" were told the only guns there were handguns, until the ME said everyone died from long gun wounds. No one has EVER tied the bullets to any particular gun, that I have seen. If you have that kind of proof linking weapon to murder, I would LOVE to see it.
2. There is supposed to be a custodian who warned everyone who survived, too. Or else the body count is off again. Or are you telling me that a 6 year old was the custodian?
3 I'll give you.
4. There IS a link between nearly all these shootings, it is antidepressants.
5. Adam's body at the school proves he died there. No one has told me yet if Adam died of long gun wounds, and if so, how he managed that. No one has explained why the name "Lanza" comes across police scanners before the shooter was identified. And if you are "betting" that police have proof YOU are now in speculation mode. I have not even heard the police claim they have any proof. What they DID have, almost immediately, was a story how RYAN was dead in the school with ONLY handguns at the scene, and ADAM was in custody. I understand they have a "mistaken identity" cover story now, but that does not explain how they had BOTH Lanza boys accounted for, then lost one. And how did they know, so fast, that BOTH girlfriends were missing? And why do we keep hearing that Adam was a loner if he had a girlfriend?
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
We = the General public 1.
We = the General public
1. "We" were told the only guns there were handguns, until the ME said everyone died from long gun wounds. No one has EVER tied the bullets to any particular gun, that I have seen. If you have that kind of proof linking weapon to murder, I would LOVE to see it.
--Well, the ME identified the weapon used - that is the official conclusion, announced publicly. Now you can disbelieve the ME, but you need some evidence to show he is lying. The fact that the press mis-reported this detail is not proof of anything. The details should be available publicly when final reports are issued. Its OK to be skeptical of this until you see the direct evidence, but to say its a lie is not.
2. There is supposed to be a custodian who warned everyone who survived, too. Or else the body count is off again. Or are you telling me that a 6 year old was the custodian?
--Perhaps the custodian does not want to talk to the press. wouldn't be surprising. He may well have talked to the police, and I'll bet he did. So either he gave evidence that goes along with the police narrative ,or the police and the custodian are complicit in some cover up. But you can't assume a cover up just because the custodian has not talked to the press.
3 I'll give you.
4. There IS a link between nearly all these shootings, it is antidepressants.
There is no evidence of that. First, most people on antidepressants don't shoot anyone. Second, these shooters used various different antidepressants, or anti-anxiety drugs or other medications - different drugs all havingthe same connecting side effect is ridiculous. Third, their mental conditions and family situations were all different. The Feds love to profile us, so they can use that as justification to control us - if they can predict someones crime, they can. look at how they are claiming that mass murders are all white men - but this happens in China, Africa, all over the world - there is no connection to ANYTHING other than the individuals free will.
5. Adam's body at the school proves he died there. No one has told me yet if Adam died of long gun wounds, and if so, how he managed that. No one has explained why the name "Lanza" comes across police scanners before the shooter was identified. And if you are "betting" that police have proof YOU are now in speculation mode. I have not even heard the police claim they have any proof. What they DID have, almost immediately, was a story how RYAN was dead in the school with ONLY handguns at the scene, and ADAM was in custody. I understand they have a "mistaken identity" cover story now, but that does not explain how they had BOTH Lanza boys accounted for, then lost one. And how did they know, so fast, that BOTH girlfriends were missing? And why do we keep hearing that Adam was a loner if he had a girlfriend?
--Most of this was errant media reports and social media rumors - do you have proof beyond a press report or a facebook posts that they had ADAM in custody ? There were also reports that Adam had killed his father. What the police thought, and what they knew are two different things. Police always speculate wildly, and over react.
The police are so often wrong early in an investigation. In any case it is not evidence of anything.
Carl Miller will teach you what you want to know. Watch his series "Know Your Constitution."


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Basque Vegetable Rice
From EatingWell: September/October 2007
Zucchini, onion, tomatoes and bell peppers stud this paella-inspired rice dish. You may add other vegetables, such as mushrooms and peas, or if you like something heartier, some slightly spicy Italian sausage is a good choice.
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- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 small dried red chile pepper, such as chile de arbol, broken
- 1 medium onion, quartered and thinly sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 large ripe tomatoes, seeded and diced
- 1 medium zucchini, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon paprika, preferably Spanish
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1 1/4 cups short-grain white rice, preferably Valencia (see Tip)
- 3 cups vegetable broth, or reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons finely minced fresh flat-leaf parsley, for garnish
- 6 lemon wedges, for garnish
- Heat oil in a 12-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Add chile pepper, onion and garlic and cook, stirring often, until the onion is soft but not browned, about 6 minutes.
- Add tomatoes, zucchini, bell peppers, paprika, thyme, salt and pepper; cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes.
- Add rice; stir to coat well with the tomato mixture. Add broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer until the rice is tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve hot directly from the pan, garnished with parsley and lemon wedges, if desired.
Tips & Notes
- Tip: Valencia rice (sometimes called paella rice) is Spanish-grown, short-grain rice classically used when making paella. It differs from other short-grain rice because of its ability to absorb moisture without breaking down. When fully cooked, the individual grains of rice remain whole. 'Bomba' is the best variety. Find it in specialty markets or online at tienda.com. Arborio rice can be used as a substitute, but yields a creamier dish.
Per serving: 250 calories; 6 g fat (1 g sat, 4 g mono); 0 mg cholesterol; 45 g carbohydrates; 5 g protein; 5 g fiber; 434 mg sodium; 439 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (100% daily value), Folate (50% dv), Vitamin A (40% dv), Iron (15% dv).
Carbohydrate Servings: 212
Exchanges: 2 1/2 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 fat
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In the first part of the letter, Cease promises to keep Biggie's legacy alive.
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What's good B.I. Hope all is well with you up top, I'm writing this letter to wish you a BIG happy 40th birthday from me and the family!
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"Thank you for giving me a career, positive pather and showing me the real meaning of life at a young age. I'ma keep your legacy alive and going the best way I could B.I. 15 yrs later and you're still crowned the King of New York!! I love you to death big brother and can't wait to see you on the other side. Until then, you already know what it is, MAFIA FOR LIFE!! LOVE YOU BIG, YOUR HEART CEASER A LEO!! ONE!!!" (XXL Mag)
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A rare clip has surfaced from 1996 which features one of the only live performances of Notorious B.I.G. with Jay-Z. The pair teamed up at Video Music Box creator Ralph McDaniels' birthday party to perform "Get Money." Fuse has the video, along with the following story from McDaniels: "Every year, I had a birthday party," said Ralph McDaniels. "I wanted to get B.I.G. to host [it], but really I wanted him to perform. Jay-Z came with the whole Roc-A-Fella crew and they got on stage. I told the DJ, 'If Biggie gets on stage, play a Biggie song and we'll get him to perform.' DJ Ace threw on 'Get Money' and the whole crowd went crazy. B.I.G. looks at me like, 'I guess I'm supposed to perform now, right?' Jay-Z plays hypeman to B.I.G. on 'Get Money.' That just rang through the hood forever." (Prefix Mag)


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