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Globalization I - The Upside
Invite your learners to consider how technological advancements and increased trade and travel have affected the development of our world community, and the drastic shifts in culture and lifestyle that have occurred as a result of globalization.
11 mins 9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
Why is the master and creator of this history-based video series claiming the Renaissance didn't even happen? Listen as he offers evidence for this interesting take on the period. The video discusses the significance of trade and wealth in Italy, the influence of the Ottoman and Islamic empire on the Renaissance, and the lasting impact of humanism in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe.
11 mins 9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
Delve into the world of Malian ruler Mansa Musa, the development and culture of African kingdoms such as the Swahili civilization, the use of oral tradition, and the spread of Islam across trade routes. The narrator does an excellent job conveying the need for a variety of sources as evidence to gain a comprehensive understanding of the past.
10 mins 9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Christianity from Judaism to Constantine
How did the religion of Christianity begin, gain prominence, and flourish to become the world's largest religion? The narrator explores the origins and historical context of Christianity, beginning by reviewing Judaism and the covenant of Abraham to the life of Jesus under the roman empire.
11 mins 9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Revolt! Comparing Historical Revolutions
What elements are needed to have a revolution? How do historical revolutions from across the globe and generations compare with one another? This is an excellent activity that incorporates group work, source analysis, and an engaging slide show to review major revolutions in history.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or... Which Was It?
Who and what exactly constituted the Roman republic? Mr. Green begins this history presentation by detailing Julius Caesar's rise to power and his impact on the republic. He reviews government structure and leadership roles, achievements of Caesar's rule, and finally a discussion on the general value of the Roman republic and whether or not it was worth preserving.
12 mins 6th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
New Review The Past, Present and Future of the Bubonic Plague
It may be startling to know that the same bacteria responsible for the Bubonic Plague in the mid-fourteenth century still exists today. But don't worry, this video examines the causes and effects of the Black Death, and why the disease doesn't pose the same threat that it once did.
4 mins 7th - 12th Science CCSS: Adaptable
The End of World War II: Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment Camps, and the Atomic Bomb
The end of World War II saw major events that would forever change the global landscape and international relations. Using a fantastic PowerPoint presentation and several primary source documents, your learners will discuss the bombing of Pearl Harbor, use of atomic weapons by the United States, and effects of the war on Japan and Japanese Americans.
8th - 11th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
World Religions Project
This is a very well-designed comparative world religions project that offers clear guidelines, expectations, and supplemental materials to support learners in their research process. Class members are divided into groups and must then research and present on one of the five major world religions: Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity.
7th - 10th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance
Was nonviolent resistance the best means of securing civil rights for black Americans in the 1960s? In this highly engaging and informative instructional activity, your young historians will closely analyze several key documents from the civil rights movement, including criticisms of Martin Luther King, Jr.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Black Diamond
Score a home run with this packet of information on the very first player of the Negro League to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame — cultural groundbreaker and sports legend Satchel Paige. These worksheets include a brief history of Paige's life and career, a description of the Negro League and other major players, vocabulary, a crossword puzzle, and a coloring worksheet.
3rd - 6th English Language Arts CCSS: Adaptable
World History Timeline Project
Using and online tool called TimeRime, class members create timelines that include what they consider to be the top 10 most important events from the first semester of world history. The first few pages of the assignment focus on how to sign up and use TimeRime.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History
Learning From World War II and Connecting It to the Present
Compare and contrast World War II to the Iraqi war with this activity. After watching a film, they use supporting evidence to support their point of view of the conflicts. Using the internet, they create a presentation to share with the class what information they have gathered from examining World War II.
8th - 12th English Language Arts
AP World History Unit Test Chapters 8-15
Get your AP historians thinking about the facts with this exam activity, which has students responding to 60 multiple choice questions about world religions, major events, and significant historical figures. The exam specifies chapters 8-15, however the text it is referencing is not listed.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History
African Americans in World War II: Staging a Double V Campaign in the Classroom
The feelings and attitudes of African-Americans during World War II are examined by high schoolers. After watching various clips from "The War," they answer comprehension questions for each section. In groups, they create their own Double V campaign to promote equal rights.
9th - 12th English Language Arts
Topic Report Learning Organizer
If you'd like to quickly access a simple graphic organizer designed for a class to divide and conquer a larger subject, then check out this resource. Assign class members to study a specific topic within a historical theme or event, and then use the worksheet to brainstorm and summarize important words and events associated with their topic.
3rd - 10th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
History and Traditions of the Samurai
The history and tradition of the samurai are analyzed as cultural norms that changed to reflect the times. The class will examine sets of samurai armor and clothing to describe how their role changed over an eight-hundred year period. They'll study content-specific vocabulary as they hone their reading and critical thinking skills.
6th - 8th Social Studies & History CCSS: Adaptable
Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn
This resource is rich with primary and secondary source material regarding major events in the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolution. While there are suggested classroom activities toward the beginning of the resource, its true value lies in the reproductions of such major historical documents as the United States Declaration of Independence, the Haitian Declaration of Independence, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
9th - 12th Social Studies & History CCSS: Designed
Celebrating African American/Black Leaders in History: Their Religions and Their Legacy
Kick-start Black History Month with a fantastic resource that blends a study of prominent African American leaders in history with information on different religions. Beginning with a brainstorm and then leading into a collaborative timeline activity, your class members will break into groups and read and research the biographical and historical information of such noteworthy figures as Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, and Dr.
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Posted in thread: Blackberry Mead on 09-21-2014 at 07:03 PM
Check of final gravity was 1.000 this morning. Will let it sit for a couple weeks then transfer
to secondary. It has a tart finish, I assume from the blackberries. Not too dry and not much
Posted in thread: Blackberry Mead on 09-11-2014 at 04:39 PM
Turns out after the bags leaked I only had 5.25 quarts of thick blackberry juice.I combined
that with 10lbs honey to make a five gallon batch. OG was only 1.080 but I think that is
probably a good thi...
Posted in thread: Blackberry Mead on 09-08-2014 at 02:37 AM
Thanks for the reply. I may just make a 3 gallon batch, add honey to boost the juice and top
off with water if needed.
Posted in thread: Blackberry Mead on 09-07-2014 at 10:53 PM
My freezer door got left open and 2.5 gallons of Blackberry juice partially thawed. I don't
want to refreeze it so I thought I would use it as an excuse to make my first mead.I used fresh
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Posted in thread: Induction Burner on 01-27-2014 at 06:36 PM
I use a pot as a mash tun that is slightly larger than my induction hot plate. It's been
working just fine for over 5 years now (I boil with propane). When I do a ten gallon batch, I
have a custom woo...
Posted in thread: Induction Burner on 01-27-2014 at 05:00 AM
Oh, FFS.There multiple types of induction burners. Dropins, ranges, wok, fajita, hotplates and
stock pot. Even the thing Pizza Hut puts in the bag to keep your pizza hot is an induction
pellet. I can'...
Posted in thread: Boilover and broken hydrometer. Help? on 01-26-2014 at 05:15 PM
Without knowing where you SG is, I wouldn't add any top off. With the boil over you lost X
amount of wort at X gravity leaving you with X amount of wort at the same gravity. Seems like
adding to the f...
Posted in thread: Induction Burner on 01-26-2014 at 03:34 PM
Maybe you inferred "only so much weight" was code for less than 100 lbs. I didn't say how much
was too much, only that there is a limit and that quality matters. Stacking a bunch of weigh in
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Keep in mind you will get exactly what you pay for. The hotplates can only handle so much
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Robb Wolf discusses the Paleo diet and health issuesSubmitted by Musicians and H... on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 23:34
I urge everyone to actually listen to the clip.
Robb Wolf - "I became very ill eating a vegan diet. I had ulcerative colitis, IBS and a host of other problems. I had started eating a vegan diet thinking this was a healthy way of eating. At the time, I was a research biochemist, and someone suggested that my problems might be resolved with the adoption of an ancestral (Paleo) way of eating. Within a few weeks of adopting a Paleo diet, my ulcerative colitis was gone, as were my other health concerns. I've been eating this way for 15 years now and have experienced better health than at any previous point in my life. Although the Paleo diet advocates the consumption of animal products, it is a thoughtful way of eating congruent with both ethics and sustainability, and I make this a large part of the education I provide."
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Nope, had quite a bit of oil
Nope, had quite a bit of oil in my diet. Maybe when I'm older it'll work better for me. When I went onto carbs again I was like superman in the gym!
I followed the Atkins diet pretty closely. We have mostly lean meats here so I compensated by adding more oil and butter in my diet. It worked completely, I lost around 8 kgs over 3 months and got abs without doing anything except pushups and squats in my room.
A lot of lethargy is an exaggeration but I'd say I lacked the kind of energy I had before or after.
re: Tell that to Asia...
Beneficial Effects of an 8-Week, Very Low Carbohydrate Diet Intervention on Obese Subjects
Aim. To investigate the effects of weight loss during an 8-week very low carbohydrate diet (VLCD) on improvement of metabolic parameters, adipose distribution and body composition, and insulin resistance and sensitivity in Chinese obese subjects... Conclusion. Eight weeks of VLCD was an effective intervention in obese subjects. These beneficial effects may be associated with enhanced hepatic and whole-body lipolysis and oxidation.
Oh, No.
Maybe you'd better post this study where the billions of Asian people can see it so they'll switch from those fattening carbs to the Western high-protein/high-cholesterol diet.
If you know about proteins, carbs, and fats, then you know what burns off and what doesn't. That's why Atkins dieters almost always wind up gaining back the weight and then some. That's why high protein results in sluggishness and high carb results in more energy. That's why all the great runners and athletes consume carbs before their sports events. One doesn't have to be a scientist to know this.
If you know about proteins,
If you know about proteins, carbs, and fats, then you know what burns off and what doesn't. That's why Atkins dieters almost always wind up gaining back the weight and then some. That's why high protein results in sluggishness and high carb results in more energy. That's why all the great runners and athletes consume carbs before their sports events. One doesn't have to be a scientist to know this.
Like your demigod Campbell, you're using a strawman argument. Nobody is advocating a high protein diet. The dangers of excessive protein deamination is well known.
...the mobilization of fat from adipose tissue is inhibited by numerous stimuli. The most significant inhibition is that exerted upon adenylate cyclase by insulin. When an individual is in the well fed state, insulin released from the pancreas prevents the inappropriate mobilization of stored fat. Instead, any excess fat and carbohydrate are incorporated into the triacylglycerol pool within adipose tissue.
Pathway of mitochondrial β-oxidation
The oxidation of fatty acids yields significantly more energy per carbon atom than does the oxidation of carbohydrates. The net result of the oxidation of one mole of oleic acid (an 18-carbon fatty acid) will be 146 moles of ATP (2 mole equivalents are used during the activation of the fatty acid), as compared with 114 moles from an equivalent number of glucose carbon atoms.
Au Contraire
Atkins and Paleo (a spinoff of the Atkins diet) advocate a very high-protein diet, much higher than the body requires.
Judge Andrew Napolitano Loses 60 Pounds Just By Dropping Wheat
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
i love the judge
but let's keep this honest: he is also taking a appetite suppressor called factor 4 a bunch of times a day.
that wouldn't appeal to me, but if the judge looks and feels better i'm happy for him.
Paleo (a spinoff of the
Paleo (a spinoff of the Atkins diet)
Didn't realize Dr. Atkins was over 10,000 years old when he died...
Here's Mark Sisson
Here's Robb Wolf
Here's Joel Wallach, who is in his 70s
Now here's your pasty gray McDougall
And here he is with his pasty gray wife
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
look at the paleo guru's neck!
go to the close-up at 1:09
is he having trouble breathing too?
i don't mean to be rude but the dude looks
way unhealthy; maybe he has a medical condition
or something, but he should not be preaching a diet looking like
that, seriously.
Look at this Paleo protege's
Look at this Paleo protege's gut... ;-)
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
Paleo Diet Before and After
Paleo Diet Before and After Pictures: My Weightloss Transformation
That means...
...absolutely nothing. No dairy, no sugar, limit alcohol -- the Paleo diet amounts to fewer calories. It's a scam just like Atkins.
Only these scams don't just take your money; they put your chances of heart disease and cancer at much greater risk. Time to wake up and look at the actual research, not at what the scam pushers say.
...fewer calories.Which
...fewer calories.
Which metabolic process uses "calories"?
The science of obesity: what do we really know about what makes us fat? An essay by Gary Taubes
Any regulatory defect that drove people to gain weight, Rony noted, would induce them to take in more calories than they expend. "Positive caloric balance would be, then, a result rather than a cause of the condition."
Yeah she's a cutie!
Yeah she's a cutie!
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
my feeling is that whatever you choose the sticking to it is
what's most important. we've all seen health gurus become fat and out of shape, yet they still show up for interviews and seminars. i find that sad.
stick-to-it-ness is important in all endeavors i've found.
go to the close-up at 1:09 is
go to the close-up at 1:09
is he having trouble breathing too?
i don't mean to be rude but the dude looks
way unhealthy; maybe he has a medical condition
or something, but he should not be preaching a diet looking like
that, seriously.
How is your commentary relevant to what Cordain was talking about? Chip on your shoulder much?
Cordain looks awful. I don't mean to be cruel but he's fat and his skin looks bad. This is what the young people who follow his diet will look like if they keep listening to him.
And to think if they would only cut out the meat and increase the carbs, they could look like this (who's much older than Cordain, though you'd never know it):
Picture of Cordain from 2011
Cordain looks awful. I don't mean to be cruel but he's fat and his skin looks bad.
You're just prejudice, not necessarily cruel. You should just come to terms with your inability to judge information objectively may be related to your diet.
Is that the best pix you could find?
I gather you spent some time searching for that one.
Look at the picture of him from his book and compare that to him today. Or better yet, look at this video and notice the other high-protein gurus, compare them to the vegan gurus; then ask yourself honestly who you'd rather look like:
i said i don't mean to be rude
that's not something a chip carrier says up front unless you're insisting on reading everything in a exchange as a negative. i'm tying to learn something on this thread. ..evidently you're not paying attention to the conversation. you might want to look at what i'm replying to before typing out your knee jerk reaction..
You're comparing children?
Sisson and Wolf? Don't make me laugh.
As for Wallach, he looks overweight, don't you think? I'd hate to see what his arteries look like. How anyone could compare him to John McDougall and his wife, who both look fabulous, is beyond me.
Why you are constantly advocating that people eat meat and why you are constantly spreading junk science on the so-called "benefits" of eating meat -- either you have a financial stake in the meat industry (or the paleo diet business) or you're just a bit odd.
I'm advocating people not eating grains
Some aspects of one's build are genetics.
McDougall and his wife look awful. Plain and simple. If you think otherwise, you're in denial.
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
McDougall and his wife look fantastic!
I hope, God willing, when I get to their age, I look as good. Anyone who actually looks at them and reads your comment would know that I'm not the one who's in denial.
I'm sure there are some who think the Grim Reaper
I'm sure there are some who think the Grim Reaper looks fantastic as well.
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
we have different views on "awful"
call me crazy but this (like way too many americans) is what i'd call awful.
Resist the temptation to feed the trolls.
don't get me wrong
i have nothing against hefty folks, i just don't see it as healthy, and when they are pushing an eating plan and have fallen into weight gain i either have to question their methods, or at least call them on not following their original ideas.
How is any of that verifiable?
Cordain, inventor of the Paleo diet (Atkins diet minus the dairy), is overweight.
Sally Fallon, another high protein guru, is obese.
Barry Sears, inventor the Zone Diet, is very overweight.
Robert Atkins was 60 pounds overweight when he passed away.
William Davis is overweight.
How is any of that verifiable? How do your own metabolic markers look?
Medical Tests Recommended by Dr. Ron Rosedale
• Leptin: 4 to 6 ng/dL
• Fasting Insulin: 10 IU/mL and below
• HbgA1c: 4.5 percent or less
• Glucose: 70 to 85 mg/dL
• Free T3: 2.2 to 3.0 pg/mL
• Basal Body Temperature: 96.8 to 97.5 degrees F and below
• IGF-1: 90 to 360 ng/mL (normal for those aged forty and over)
• Norepinephrine: 250 to 350 pg/mL (the lower end of the range is optimal)
• Highly Sensitive C-Reactive Protein: less than 1.0
• Triglycerides: 100 mg/dL
• Homocysteine: less than 6 umol/L
• Blood Urea Nitrogen: 17 mg/dL
• Creatinine: 0.7 to 1.0 mg/dL
• Uric Acid: 3 to 7 mg/dL
• Liver Enzymes: ALP 44 to 147 IU/l, ALT 5 to 30 IU/l, AST 10 to 34 IU/l
• Cholesterol: HDL higher than 40 mg/dL, high proportion of large LDL to small dense LDL
If you have eyes, it's verifiable
You don't need charts to know if somebody is overweight:


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PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/02/14 -- According to the American Small Business League, the latest data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) shows 175 Fortune 500 firms received billions of dollars in federal small business contracts in 2013. In 2012, 235 Fortune 500 firms received small business contracts.
Some of the firms the Small Business Administration (SBA) has included in their small business contracting statistics include: Chevron, Apple, General Electric, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Verizon, UPS, Bank of America, Citigroup, Home Depot, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Pepsi, Boeing, Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, American Airlines and John Deere.
A recent legal opinion by one of the nation's leading experts on federal contracting law, Professor Charles Tiefer, describes the federal government's diversion of small business contracts to corporate giants as "fraud." He also points out the lack of oversight on small business contracting when he stated, "SBA and the agency are failing to demand recertifications, and failing to take action in the absence of valid certifications of continuing small size."
As early as 1995, the SBA Office of Inspector General reported on "a particular fraudulent practice" when firms that had been found not to be small businesses continued to claim to be small businesses to illegally land federal small business contracts.
A 2004 report from the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy describes one of the reasons large businesses receive federal small business contracts is due to "vendor deception."
In 2005 the SBA Office of Inspector General released report 5-16 that reported large businesses were receiving federal small business contracts through, "false certifications" and "improper certifications."
Report 5-15 from the SBA Office of Inspector General described the diversion of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to corporate giants as, "One of the most important challenges facing the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the entire federal government today..."
Report 5-14 from the SBA Office of Inspector General found the SBA itself was reporting awards to big businesses as small business awards.
In 2008 even President Obama recognized the magnitude of fraud and abuse in federal small business contracting programs when he released the statement, "It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants."
President Obama never adopted any policies or legislation to keep his campaign promise to American small businesses. Every year of the Obama Administration, the SBA Inspector General, Peg Gustafson, who was appointed by President Obama, has named the diversion of federal small business contracts to big businesses as the number one problem at the SBA.
In 2009 the Government Accountability Office essentially accused the SBA of encouraging fraud when it released Report 10-108 that stated, "By failing to hold firms accountable, SBA and contracting agencies have sent a message to the contracting community that there is no punishment or consequences for committing fraud."
As opposed to adopting policies that stop the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants, the SBA has proposed new policies that will allow thousands of large businesses to qualify as small businesses.
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is under attack from within. Bella Dodd, a communist leader who converted revealed that the commies sent agents into the seminaries to attack the Church and these people are now in the hierarchy. That doesn't negate the dogma of the Faith. That is apart from the men who are trying to twist the Church into a secular state appendage (like that bunch at Notre Dame who honored the "abortion president" and are now whining about the obammunists forcing the Church to provide contraception, etc. to employees). There is a resurgence of orthodoxy and the old commies have been revealed for their secularism and are dying off. The relentless attacks on the Church reveal that the state still considers her a formidable obstacle to their plans. Read Thomas Woods, Jeffrey Tucker and other libertarian Catholics. That "social teaching" stuff is OK until they start advocating achieving it through state aggression, a global state, the UN, etc. But it isn't Church dogma.
I have a harder time with the lack of spirituality of the pristhood but maybe we have just had bad luck at our parish where I live. We have gotten selfish, lazy, arrogant, and money grubbing types who view the parishioners with contempt. I sometimes marvel at the faith of the people who keep coming to Mass in spite of some of the priests. Protestants don't seem to separate their faith from their pastors like Catholics do.
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This piece is cross-posted from the Web site of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, where it appears under the heading, "Insurrectionist Timeline".
On June 26, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court embraced the National Rifle Association's contention that the Second Amendment provides individuals with the right to take violent action against our government should it become "tyrannical." The following timeline catalogues incidents of insurrectionist violence (or the promotion of such violence) that have occurred since that decision was issued:
June 26, 2008—The case of District of Columbia v. Heller is decided by the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling. The opinion not only endorses the National Rifle Association's "individual right" interpretation of the Second Amendment; it also affirms that one of the purposes of the right is to " assure the existence of a "citizens' militia" as a safeguard against tyranny." The NRA's amicus brief in the case had argued that " the Second Amendment refers to the utility of an armed population in preventing government tyranny."
July 27, 2008—Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it " a symbolic killing" because he really " wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book," but was unable to gain access to them.
September 18, 2008—Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding firearm-related legislation. Heller's written, submitted testimony states, in part: "' We the people,' armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that is the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city, ARMED CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our individual neighborhoods."
September 22, 2008—The National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama website, which predicts that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, " if elected…would be the most anti-gun president in American history." The website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit Obama.
December 9, 2008—FBI teams investigating the murder of white supremacist James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine, find supplies for a crude radiological dispersal dervice and other explosives in his home. Cumming's wife, who shot him to death after being abused by him repeatedly, explains, " His intentions were to construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to kill President Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our moter home."
February 5, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special on Fox called " We Surround Them," a "grassroots effort to wake up our Nation's leaders and let them know what many, if not most, Americans truly believe in and stand for."
February 20, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games a 2014 civil war scenario called " The Bubba Effect." It involves citizen militias in the South and West taking up arms against the U.S. government.
March 3, 2009— FOX commentator Glenn Beck interviews NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris. During the interview, Beck states that, " Somebody asked me this morning, they said, 'you really believe that there's going to be trouble in the future?' And I said, 'if this country starts to spiral out of control and, you know, and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a totalitarian country … Americans will, they just, they won't stand for it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.' And they said, 'where's that going to come from?' And I said, 'Texas, it's going to come from Texas.'"
March 9, 2009—NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial published at WorldNetDaily: " How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history need to record a second American Revolution?"
March 11, 2009—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference and announces that " Our Founding Fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules."
March 21-22, 2009—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she wants residents of her state to be " armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people—we the people—are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country."
April 4, 2009—Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police officers responding to a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski feared " the Obama gun ban that's on its way" and " didn't like our rights being infringed upon." Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because " if anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna' stand by what his forefathers told him to do."
April 7, 2009—The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis releases an assessment of right wing extremism in the United States. The Department notes that " the economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment." Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, the Department speculates, " The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks."
April 15, 2009—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after he openly states on Twitter that he is going to turn the upcoming Oklahoma City "Tea Party" into a bloodbath. Two months earlier, Hayden had written online, " The only thing that is keeping the New World Order from destroying this nation is the presence of over 100,000,000 guns in civilian hands. When guns are outlawed, only criminals will have guns. Since we are already criminals in the eyes of the New World Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and to kill those of us who will NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE gun "laws" and keep your guns (AND ammo) handy."
April 19, 2009—The Oath Keepers, an anti-government group made up of current and former law enforcement and military personnel, holds its first "muster" in Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the opening shots of the Revolutionary War. The groups' members pledge to disobey ten different orders that they deem " unconstitutional" and " immoral," the first of which reads, " We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people."
April 25, 2009—Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an enusing gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was " severely disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County Sheriff Edward Spooner states that Cartrwight was " interested in militia groups and weapons training."
May 2009—Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that threats to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in the past six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in 2008. Federal officials blame a number of parties, including the "sovereign citizen" movement—an unorganized grouping of tax protesters, white supremacists, and others who don't respect federal authority.
May 21-22, 2009—We The People Chairman Bob Schultz hosts a gathering of 30 "freedom keepers" in Jekyll Island, Georgia. The meeting plays " a key role in launching the current resurgence of militias and the larger anti-government 'Patriot' movement." One of the participants, former Texas militia leader Jon Roland, claims the federal government has " been engaging in warlike activity against the American people."
May 31, 2009—Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical anti-government group. In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka, Kansas, for driving with a homemade license plate. Police found a military-style rifle, ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt batteries in his car.
June 3, 2009—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist blogger/radio host, is arrested on charges of inciting injury after calling for the deaths of two Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they sponsored a bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman Catholic parishes from priests and bishops to lay members. " While filing a lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle things," he wrote, " we at TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a group of tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too soft. Thankfully, the Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve tyranny: The Second Amendment. TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take up arms and put down this tyranny by force ... If any state attorney, police department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this, I suspect we have enough bullets to put them down, too."
June 10, 2009—James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a " hardcore Neo-Nazi," walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and shoots and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western civilization was going to be replaced with a " ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI GOVERNMENT" that would " confiscate private weapons" in order to accomplish its goals.
June 24, 2009—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist blogger/radio host, is arrested again after calling for the murder of three Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who had issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in Chicago. Writing on his blog, Turner says, " Let me be the first to say this plainly: these judges deserve to be killed," and includes photographs, phone numbers, work addresses, and room numbers of the judges, as well as a map of Chicago's federal courthouse which points out its "anti-truck bomb" pylons.
July 13, 2009—Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County, Texas, with an assault rifle. Police were responding to reports that Ortez or his wife had fired shots at utility workers in the area. Police searching Ortez's mobile home after a 10-hour standoff find more than 100 explosive devices; Nazi drawings and extremist literature; and several additional firearms.
July 15, 2009—Katherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates in the state's 99th District makes headlines by calling on Americans to resist the course President Obama has set for the country. Appearing at a "Tea Party" rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick Henry and then states, " We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot box before we have to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our Second Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of firearms for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against tyranny." This thought is reinforced on Crabill's campaign website, where she states the Second Amendment " was clearly intended for self defense as well as, and more specifically, to keep the government on notice of an armed citizenry."
July 31, 2009—On WWJB-AM in Hernando County, Florida, talk radio host Bob Haa takes a call from a listener who mentions ammunition, target practice, and Barack Obama. Haa tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to save it for the administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the Secret Service.
August 3, 2009—After being blamed for the murder of Dr. George Tiller, FOX commentator Glenn Beck cautions his listeners that " just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for."
August 11, 2009—William Kostric is filmed openly carrying a handgun outside of President Obama's health care reform town hall meeting in New Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads, "IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY!" a reference to the following Thomas Jefferson quote: " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
August 17, 2009—Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun and AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW Convention across the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton states, " What do you think we did in the revolution, in the American Revolution? The British weren't stealing money from us for health care. They weren't taxing us the way they are now back then. And what did we do? We forcefully kicked them out of our country, and we will forcefully resist people imposing their will on us through the strength of the majority with a vote."
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Iestyn Davies commented on the post, Losing title on double points "would suck" – Hamilton 3 weeks, 5 days ago
@solidg @anilsk2013 Ferrari have 'loaded the dice' – they could come last two years in a row and still get more money than Marussia or Caterham.. over both years!
mateuss commented on the post, Pirelli can "live with" more than 20 races per year 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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@solidg indeed.
You tend to be more solid when your equipment is solid. You risk more and make more mistakes when your equipment is not that good.
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I just hope it's the case of all the teams not only Ferrari & McLaren otherwise ….. BTW Alonso has already did 52 laps simulation on Melbourne track this week
George commented on the post, Kovalainen to stand in for Raikkonen in final races 1 year ago
Unless you're Sauber, in which case your 3rd driver will be on a different continent when your driver falls ill, so you have to use someone elses :P
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@solidg Lewis was not "robbed" from victory. It's the same situation as the one when Vettel passed Button outside the track. Hamilton didn't give position back completely (by completely, I mean, he just left the […]
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celeste commented on the post, Horner: Mercedes had "enormous & unfair advantage" 1 year, 5 months ago
@solidg The problema is if the FIA juts allow everybody to test now and don´t punish Mercedes is sending a message that teams can do whatever they want.
Pennyroyal tea commented on the post, Button wants to emulate Ferrari's 2012 fightback 1 year, 8 months ago
@solidg Lol you got it the other way around it. if the 2 DRS zones are set one after the other you want to have a single detection zone because that enables overtaking in both DRS zones and not only on the 2nd as […]
BasCB commented on the post, Which team has the best driver line-up for 2013? 1 year, 8 months ago
That's why I picked Button and Perez @solidg, because I think that they might be a good team for the next couple of years.
Vettel and Webber together are the most successful in recent years as for Titles but […]
Keith Collantine commented on the post, Which team has the best driver line-up for 2013? 1 year, 8 months ago
raymondu999 commented on the post, Which team has the best driver line-up for 2013? 1 year, 8 months ago
@keithcollantine I think what @solidg means is that putting the two strongest individuals does not make the strongest pair – ie the two roosters in the same henhouse scenario Ferrari keep squawking about
Keith Collantine commented on the post, Which team has the best driver line-up for 2013? 1 year, 8 months ago
If the question is who are the best 2 drivers
It is.
Nicholas Sunderland replied to the forum topic Can Hamilton beat Vettel on Top Gear? in the group F1 1 year, 9 months ago
@SoLiDG On the subject of Hamilton and Button…
Button scored two more points than Hamilton in three years. He came very close to him last year, and not that far off in 2010. He was also much more impressive […]
Sheila replied to the forum topic Can Hamilton beat Vettel on Top Gear? in the group F1 1 year, 9 months ago
@SoLiDG I also think that Lewis is faster than Jenson, and even more on a single lap, but NOT that much xD
tmekt replied to the forum topic Can Hamilton beat Vettel on Top Gear? in the group F1 1 year, 9 months ago
He proved once again he is probably the fastest driver in F1
As it has been said numerous times in this thread, a lap in a car like that tells absolutely nothing about how much quicker someone is or […]
Mads commented on the post, "No appetite" for return of tyre war in F1 – Hembery 1 year, 10 months ago
I agree.
Tyres are what glues the car to the road. It is the single most important part on any high performance car. You can have all the power and aerodynamic properties in the world, but if the tyres […]
Force Maikel commented on the post, Join in the F1 Fanatic 2012 season review 1 year, 12 months ago
@SoLiDG Actually these pictures are very good. what camera did you use?
AndrewTanner commented on the post, F1 "played NASCAR" with safety car, say Force India 1 year, 12 months ago
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