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September 18, 2014 at 1:17pm
Since we're talking about Korn: the Bassist, Reginald Arvisu, has a similar testimony.
I get a kick out of "Holier than Thou" Christians – who forget that John the Baptist emerged from the wilderness wearing animal skins and eating everything the Jews thought irreparably "unholy". Indeed, everything about him in both appearance and action was offensive to the "sensibilities" of the audience he had (both then and obviously now). But, the Word was more powerful. Might want to ponder on that for a while. I fear that many who esteem a personal "righteousness" on earth may be getting their rewards here – with none to come later. "…depart from Me, I never knew you".
[2] September 15, 2014 at 11:11am
The irony here is that a quick search of where these naturally "high" areas of lithium occur led to a cursory observation that it is HIGHEST in what we now know to be extremely conservative areas.
The material cited was done before lithium became a mainstream drug for "mood altering". Its a free e-book, but the areas of concentration are listed in the sample provided.
The absolute HIGHEST concentrations of lithium in the soil, and by association surface water sources, would be in the Appalachian Highlands. As the TV show "Moonshiners" used to declare in their opening montage; " A people absolutely allergic to government in any form".
Conclusion: dosing the water supply with additional amounts of Lithium may not have the desired effect our Progressive Overlords may want. As it turns out, a bit of mental clarity may in fact be the nemesis of the Progressive movement (as if we didn't already know that!).
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[1] September 5, 2014 at 10:06am
The Historic irony is: Holder is laying the groundwork for a new "Segregation". Since its obvious that no white person can act as an authoritative figure in a black community (particularly police), then only other blacks will be able to do so.
In those designated "black communities", there will also be "two laws" – a "black law" and "white law". A double standard of law that allows the privileged race to be excused (in Holder's view, that is black) and the disfranchised race being persecuted (in Holder's view, this is white).
Even in a "best case" scenario, no Police Chief will be able to look at Holder's actions/words and not decide that to alleviate racial claims against their "practices", he'll have to hire black officers exclusively to patrol black neighborhoods and have an all-black riot force to escape scrutiny.
Holder is an example of the "Reconstructionist" mindset. Ignorant of history, he doesn't understand that his attitude and application is what created the debacle of 1866-1871 and gave birth to both the KKK and Jim Crow. If Holder's "ideal" is pushed forward, he will effectively become the new father of Segregation in the US. His own racial animus demonstrates to perfection "separate and un-equal".
July 3, 2014 at 9:15pm
I think if these "scholars" want to review a piece of Jefferson's work and dissect its language, they need to read the Virginia Resolution of 1798.
It would put their mind at ease regarding Jefferson's intentions toward "government".
In reply to the story Are We Reading One of the Declaration of Independence's Most Iconic Lines Wrong?
[8] May 7, 2014 at 1:25pm
Typical Liberal attack.
They are usually guilty of the very thing they accuse. The proverbial "guilty pigs who squeal first".
Its not an attack upon gay marriage, its an attack on the 1st Amendment.
The Progressives of both parties are not truly interested in "gay rights", but are using the opportunity to destroy the basic 1st Amendment right of Free Speech for all.
April 18, 2014 at 10:43pm
Maryland was the State most illegally kept in the "Union". Lincoln had their entire State legislature arrested and held without cause or due process. Their legislature was about to convene a secession convention and the prognosis was not good. So, he arrested them and prevented their lawful, constitutional assembly.
Ironic, in that if Maryland had been allowed to meet and did in fact secede, Washington DC would have been surrounded by another country.
In reply to mewnani's comment on the post New book asks: Did 'crony capitalism' prolong the Civil War?
April 18, 2014 at 10:38pm
You are not much of a "Classical Liberal", if you don't understand that there was no such thing as a "Citizen of the United States" – until the 14th Amendment. You were a Citizen of your State prior to that time, and no other laws applied to you unless enumerated in the US Constitution. "Citizen" was by virtue of your State, participation in Union was by compact upheld by the State itself.
This was the accepted understanding of the relationship prior to the War, with every available treatise on the Constitution available at the time being explicit in this fact. Only the Reconstruction Acts (primarily the 14th Amendment) changed that. Meaning, prior to the War – the people of any State had the explicit right to secede if they felt like this: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." (Declaration of Independence)
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April 18, 2014 at 10:24pm
The Georgia Declaration continues:
" After having enjoyed protection to the extent of from 15 to 200 per cent. upon their entire business for above thirty years, the act of 1846 was passed. It avoided sudden change, but the principle was settled, and free trade, low duties, and economy in public expenditures was the verdict of the American people. The South and the Northwestern States sustained this policy. There was but small hope of its reversal; upon the direct issue, none at all.
All these classes saw this and felt it and cast about for new allies. The anti-slavery sentiment of the North offered the best chance for success. An anti-slavery party must necessarily look to the North alone for support, but a united North was now strong enough to control the Government in all of its departments, and a sectional party was therefore determined upon. Time and issues upon slavery were necessary to its completion and final triumph. The feeling of anti-slavery, which it was well known was very general among the people of the North, had been long dormant or passive; it needed only a question to arouse it into aggressive activity."
Sound familiar in our day and age? How about excitable topics, Constitutional and State's Rights, being challenged to further a larger agenda? Gun rights, gay rights, and social upheaval being fomented to create an even further despotic Central Government.
In reply to UnreconstructedLibertarian's comment on the post New book asks: Did 'crony capitalism' prolong the Civil War?
April 18, 2014 at 10:12pm
Crony Capitalism was more likely a co-equal cause of the War of Northern Aggression.
The Georgia Declaration lays it out pretty plainly:
"The party of Lincoln, called the Republican party, under its present name and organization, is of recent origin. It is admitted to be an anti-slavery party. While it attracts to itself by its creed the scattered advocates of exploded political heresies, of condemned theories in political economy, the advocates of commercial restrictions, of protection, of special privileges, of waste and corruption in the administration of Government,… The material prosperity of the North was greatly dependent on the Federal Government; that of the the South not at all. In the first years of the Republic the navigating, commercial, and manufacturing interests of the North began to seek profit and aggrandizement at the expense of the agricultural interests…The navigating interests begged for protection against foreign shipbuilders and against competition in the coasting trade. Congress granted both requests, and by prohibitory acts gave an absolute monopoly of this business to each of their interests, which they enjoy without diminution to this day."
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April 18, 2014 at 10:24pm
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April 18, 2014 at 9:32pm
Article 1, Section 9 of the CS Constitution meant that the Congress could not pass a law ending slavery. It DID NOT prevent the States from ending slavery on their own.
The answer to this, and was envisioned by the CS, is in fact your reference to Article IV Section 2. One must ask themselves why have this Constitutional provision if some mix of free and slave states/territories would not be present in the future? Why would it be necessary to declare that the lawful property held in one state be honored in another, "and the right of property in slaves shall not be thereby impaired". It was to avoid within their country the situation that already existed between slave and free states.
The fact is that the year the war broke out, the upper south (VA, TN, NC, AR) had emancipation bills on the floors of their respective Congresses. Consequently, those States' secession declarations do not mention slavery as a cause of secession.
Prior to the war's outcome and the yankee invention of "Incorporation Doctrine", people understood that the 2nd Amendment limited the Federal government from creating any gun law, but the States could (which was the situation until the McDonald SCOTUS decision). Similarly with the CSA article 1 section 9, which was a complete disabling of the Confederate government to make that decision, only the States themselves.
In reply to mewnani's comment on the post New book asks: Did 'crony capitalism' prolong the Civil War?
January 30, 2014 at 10:20am
Impeachment Hell! Its time to start talking Secession.
If Obama was the only Communistic Idiot to worry about, I'd say perhaps impeachment. Our government has obviously been overtaken by Communists, Socialists, and/or Mercantilist/Fascists to an irrepairable degree. The machinations of "elections" have only proven to be a modern ruse. We now only choose amongst providers of the "slop of choice" to the trough that has become the public treasury – and the majority of the populace have become the hogs fattened for slaughter.
We are, evidently, a nation of pedantic cowards. Our ancestors would have already acted upon this with righteous conviction. We've wasted our heritage like spoiled children. The further we go down this road, the more painful the redirection will be.
January 23, 2014 at 5:43pm
The Fury,
How 'bout you come n' Gitsum?
We've been waiting for folk like you for 153 years. Quit wasting time and bring it.
Deo Vindice.
January 23, 2014 at 10:34am
This is what the "public" school system was designed to do – place all of societal activity under the jurisdiction of the state.
The answer is to abolish public support, via tax dollars, to education. Thereby decoupling the entire educational process from political agenda and whim. If no Federal dollars were involved, they would not have any "say-so" in this regard.
Of course, we can do that voluntarily by private educational means – but at a great disadvantage as not only are we being monetarily raped to further the "educational" political agenda, but then must bear the double-dip expense of educating our children in addition to the tax rapine.
January 23, 2014 at 9:58am
Ironic you should mention the "second solution" of Article V. The Constitution quoted in my original post only provided for the "second solution", meaning the Congress itself could neither propose nor pass Constitutional Amendments – only a duly assembled convention of the States.
That Constitution being, the Constitution of the Confederate States. I encourage you to read the two Constitutions of 1861 side by side.
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January 22, 2014 at 5:26pm
This is really only a ploy to immigrate more "blues" into your "red" state. Or, at the very least, economicly empower the blues over the reds. Its been done there before, a time called "Reconstruction".
In reply to Americanbeliever's comment on the story Is Obama's 'Manufacturing Hub' Another Corporate Welfare Scheme?
[-1] January 22, 2014 at 5:12pm
What if the "Commerce Clause" of the Constitution read like this…
"To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce"
Would the "Affordable Heath Care" Act have been constitutional?
Or, what if Section 8 of the Constitution began…
"The Congress shall have the power, To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises for revenue, necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defense, and carry on the Government …; but no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry…"
"bounties" in the orginal context meaning "subsidies" in our current time.
Would we be constantly tossed about in our economic situation by self-centered political whim? Would modern corporatism be replacing and/or dependent on government on any level within our country?
A large "Kudo" to whomever can find those Constitutional propositions: because they actually existed – and a bloody war was fought to silence them.
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January 22, 2014 at 9:00pm
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January 22, 2014 at 4:45pm
The Left-Right political spectrum in Europe is not the same as in the U.S.
In Europe, it is a repesentation of purely Socialistic systems of government. Left being pure Communism, Right being pure Facism and/or Monarchy. From a European perspective, according to their political spectrum, Nazism is "right-wing".
The American spectrum is quite different, where both Communism and Facism are extreme "left-wing" (total government), Anarchy is the terminus of the "right" end (no government at all).
So, if the author of this article relied on and quoted a european source – they misrepresented the political spectrum as we understand it here in the U.S. In Europe, anything "right of center" in the American understanding does not exist.
And to be factual – is ceasing to exist in U.S. government as well. Dems and Republicans being equally guilty in the demise.
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January 22, 2014 at 4:55pm
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September 9, 2013 at 6:32pm
When the time comes – your Bretheren will be with you until we are finally free.
We always have been – always will be.
Deo Vindice – from Tennessee
June 30, 2013 at 1:16pm
First, I want to say that "Yankee" is defined by Attitude, not Lattitude. However, I will also say that "attitude" is more prevalent in America by lattitude than not.
"Yankee Christian" is an American manifestation of a problem that predates the US, and found its genesis in the early days of the belief itself. The seed of which can be seen in the NT basis of disagreement between Paul and Peter.
Basicly, its the corruption of the term and function of Christianity to include government by force. Its basic tenent is "salvation by works", in which one's salvation is within the control of the human and their own sense of righteousness before God, rather than placing God in the primary role of both Savior and Keeper. Its the common belief that what one believes is their righteousness, should be forced upon others by secular law and conformity. Their churches are rigidly hierarchal and centralised with all control far beyond the address of its adherents. Its second tell-tale tenent is the interjection of a human "authority figure" between the sinner and God in order to effect salvation.
In other words, yankee churches function exactly like our current government does.
What American history fails to remember is why the Puritans (Yankees) were persecuted in Britain – as they were the remnants of Cromwellian Britain. Study the English Civil War of Cromwell if you want to understand the mindset and its implications prior to the US revolution.
June 30, 2013 at 11:39am
I'm going to side with the League of the South on this issue. I'm sick of "New Jersey" based groups, and all other yankee crusades/crusaders. Damnned yankee christians are as bad as their atheistic cohorts – both are fanatical idiots possessing zeal without knowledge.
I really miss the south of my youth. Cordial discussion does not exist anymore. I truly miss those spirited southern discussions that knew where the line was that crossed the honorable boundaries of each party. To step over that line meant instant conflict in the most physical and intimate means possible. I realize now that it was infinitely more wise to let these issues be resolved directly by the smallest party possible – than to let them fester into general warfare.
What we have now is a bunch of "Rob Squires" transplants who can disrespect you with finger waving and a flood of vitriolic, profanity laced spittle – and not have to worry about getting their arse kicked. They can demean, abuse, and do all manner of harm to anyone not subcribing to their brand of fanaticism – passing "anti-violence" laws that protect their own brand of extreme psycological violence.
If the South doesn't free itself of this occupation through Independence, it should at least review the laws in its States to redefine "threat". Its about time we regained the lawful ability to kick these jackwagon's arses. We're so "polite" because otherwise formerly meant you had a fight coming – soon.
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Paint the Town Red: The tiny Colorado ski town of Crested Butte (population 1,500) was
turned into "Whatever U.S.A." for a Bud Light commercial shoot. The beer company paid the town $500,000 to re-dress
downtown for the weekend-long commercial shoot, mostly by painting everything blue. A cast and crew of 200 — including
9-year-old reality TV actress Honey Boo Boo — and 1,000 extras all promised free beer, were flown in for filming. That
didn't sit well with locals. "We're not an amusement park with a citizenry to be divided into classes to
suit Bud Light's marketing goals while OUR government is bought off," complained a resident. "We're
a REAL town." Voters want the town council members who approved the deal to be recalled, especially after they couldn't
get into the downtown area due to a shortage of wristbands that allowed access. Once filming was completed, the thousand-strong
cast found it hard to leave via the nearby town of Gunnison (population 5,000). "It takes time to get through a smaller
airport," a Bud Light spokesman said. "There's literally 1,000 young drunk/hungover kids in this Gunnison,
Colo. airport that's the size of a gas station," an extra complained on Twitter. (Denver Post) ...Whatever.
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Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 2:00 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]Best answer for this is BB when asked this weekend about his fixing his D stats for the SB. "Stats don't matter much at the end of the game, the score does. Our plan is always to set up our team to out score the other guy, not to beat them on stats."
Posted by gmbill[/QUOTE]
That makes entirely too much sense for the press to pay any attention to it.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 2:21 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Cris Carter : Russ.... Think about it, less is better. I am sure there is a lot of great stuff in this post but most folks are going to pass this by as too long. Yes, really.
Posted by Dessalines[/QUOTE]
No true. I read it and thought it was informative and well written.
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Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 3:05 PM ESTWhatever CC says, he is a loser, a jealousy He is never in the Super bowl in his career. The Pats no names defense will rising up again one more game to stop the Giants. This is the revenge, the pay back time.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 3:26 PM ESTChris can give his insights on how it is to be in the Superbowl............oh my bad, never mind.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 3:48 PM ESTBut the Pats DO have one of worst defenses ever to make the SB. That's not opinion, that's fact. And it IS surprising how bad the stats are for the defense when BB made his bones on defense.
Why dump on Carter for stating the truth?
The Pats are more like the Rams in 2001 than they are the Pats of 2001.
BUT, the Pats defense has been playing really, really well over the past few weeks. In my opinion, the Pats will when because their defense will play better than expected. I think the Pats offense may struggle - the Giants have a very good defense and have a smart game plan. So I think the only way for the Pats to win is for their defense to come up big.
I don't think it will be a high scoring game.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 3:56 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]But the Pats DO have one of worst defenses ever to make the SB. That's not opinion, that's fact. And it IS surprising how bad the stats are for the defense when BB made his bones on defense. Why dump on Carter for stating the truth? The Pats are more like the Rams in 2001 than they are the Pats of 2001. BUT, the Pats defense has been playing really, really well over the past few weeks. In my opinion, the Pats will when because their defense will play better than expected. I think the Pats offense may struggle - the Giants have a very good defense and have a smart game plan. So I think the only way for the Pats to win is for their defense to come up big. I don't think it will be a high scoring game.
Posted by DirtyWaterLover[/QUOTE]
Why is it surprising? The personel needed a serious regrouping on both sides of the ball. With limited draft picks and the cap you can only do so much. Add in a shortened training camp and preseason in which to evaluate players and test different combinations and this is what you get.
How do you know the Giants have a smart game plan? Last time I checked the DC who put together the 2007 defensive plan was gone.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 3:57 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]Look at the people BB has had to work with on defense: James Ihedigbo is a Jets castoff, a JAG Sergio Brown is undrafted. Nate Jones was sitting by the telephone when the Patriots called in November. Sterling Moore is undrafted. Kyle Arrington starts, and he was undrafted. Antwaun Molden was a Houston castoff who needed a job. Julian Edelman is a legitimate NFL #3 wide receiver, but he learned a new position quickly. Slater, maybe not a legitimate NFL #4 wide receiver, but he has two legs and isn't really doing anything else right now. Devin McCourty couldn't play cornerback and had to switch positions. He'll be ok at safety. Eugene Chung is ok when he's healthy, which wasn't the case for some of the year. In sum, who are these guys, what have they done with the real Patriots, who can spell Antwaun and Ihedigbo, and why on earth would Cris Carter criticize BB's expert handling of the Bad News Bears to the point where they could knock the Ravens' playoff hopes away?
Posted by Paul_K[/QUOTE]
good summary. by far the most impressive is BB taking an 40+, bust of a high-pick OL, and turning him into a safety.
now that's coaching 'em up.
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Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 4:02 PM ESTAs an NFL analyst, Cris Carter makes a great ex receiver.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 4:08 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]But the Pats DO have one of worst defenses ever to make the SB. That's not opinion, that's fact. And it IS surprising how bad the stats are for the defense when BB made his bones on defense. Why dump on Carter for stating the truth? The Pats are more like the Rams in 2001 than they are the Pats of 2001. BUT, the Pats defense has been playing really, really well over the past few weeks. In my opinion, the Pats will when because their defense will play better than expected. I think the Pats offense may struggle - the Giants have a very good defense and have a smart game plan. So I think the only way for the Pats to win is for their defense to come up big. I don't think it will be a high scoring game.
Posted by DirtyWaterLover[/QUOTE]
I agree that they didn't play all that hot defensively in the regular season, but the Giants were 9-7 and gave up more points than they scored in the regular season.
It seems as if people like CC will cling to the Pats stats from the regular season and ignore how well the defense has played in the playoffs "well, the Giants ain't the Ravens or Broncos." You can't ignore the Pats postseason improvements while at the same time giving a 9-7 Giants team kudos because they've turned it on for their playoff run. It's mind-numbing hypocrisy.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 4:20 PM ESTCarter, Bayless, Smith and Jackson are all jealous tools.
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Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 8:32 PM ESTI hate the bug-eyed b*tch.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 8:32 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]Well, he should have been that angry when former Vikes Def Coordinator, Mike Tomlin, had a "32nd ranked" pass D in Minny in 2006 and then got a promotion to head coach Pittsburgh as some kind of "defensive genius". Carter is a moron. His IQ might be above 100, but I am not sure. What's funny is how he thinks he's intelligent. And, no one on those panels calls him out for being so ridiculous either, due to the anti-NE agenda ESPN pumps. Look at Chris Berman's face when Carter goes off dramatically. It's hilarious. YOu can tell he has little respect for his sales pitch and wants to say something, but he holds back, likely for ESPN to be able to push this anti-BB angle. What BB has done on the fly in the cap era, is nothing short of unbelievable and historically notable. That's really what's sad. The media should be celebrating what will go down as arguably the best rebuilding job in the history of the NFL, especially if NE wins a SB. He didn't have the luxruy of having a veteran base on D with a lot of continuity. Wilfork, Mayo and Chung, ironically the key down the middle players, are the backbone, but it's pretty clear for BB to do what he likes to do, he wants guys who get it. This is alwasy why BB's Ds have always been veteran Ds. It's why teams like Pitt, Balt or even a NOs or a GB, can appear to be far superior, which in some ways they were this year for sure. Look at the Giants. What are they going to do if they lose a few of their key front 7 players? They have a nice younng kid in Pierre-Paul on the edge, but they're whole thing is continuity. Belichick basically tried to squash a bunch of different bodies into a defense to see what fit. So, in essence, he is a defensive genius. It took GB and then adding Dom Capers to build a SB D last year. It took Mickey Loomis in NOs YEARS to get what he has in NOs, and you can see where that D has ended up. When Cris Carter said this was the worst D in "the history of the NFL", he probably should have been suspended from his job without pay because you can't make statements that simply dom't make sense and expect to be considered a professional. At some point, it becomes incredibly embarrassing. You're representing a company. Barring ESPN ordering him to say that, there is no way on earth NE's D is anywhere remotely close to any of the worst Ds in the NFL history. ESPN and the national media is so arrgoant, they can't even see BB just rebuilt the foundation of a new potential dynasty on the fly. Utter genius. Most teams take 3-5 years to even lay a foundation. BB did it in 2009, 2010 and he tinkered during most of this year, both out of necessity and simply by trying to figure it all out himself. It's not like Serymour, Bruschi, Harrison, Seau, Vrabel, Colvin, Samuel, etc, are all here or even 1 or 2 of those players could have been here at this point. I started a tread here last week entitled "The Media" and it was censored/deleted. I don't know why, but I though this article was honest and interesting. This article has over 4000 comments under it due to an insane jealousy by non-Pats fans: Are Patriots building another dynasty? January, 27, 2012 Jan 27 1:30 PM ET Email Print Comments 5K+ By James Walker Greg M. Cooper/US Presswire Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have won three Super Bowls together -- can they make it four? The New England Patriots are favored to win their first Super Bowl since the end of the 2004 season. That capped a run of three championships in four years, which happened to be the most recent NFL dynasty. But are the Patriots quietly building another dynasty? New England is the only team to win back-to-back Super Bowls in the past dozen years. If any organization is consistent enough to pull it off, it's New England. Here are five reasons the Patriots have a chance to once again reach dynasty status: Reason No. 1: Patriots will beat the Giants Whoops! Did I reveal my prediction too soon? Oh well. There was no point in waiting. The Patriots will beat the Giants on Feb. 5 to win the fourth Super Bowl of the Bill Belichick era. This is not only revenge for the Patriots, this is double revenge. New England lost to New York during the 2011 regular season and in Super Bowl XLII. Teams simply don't beat New England three times in a row. Belichick and Tom Brady are too good and too locked in to allow it. New England's defense is also playing much better in the postseason. New York has looked impressive in wins over the Atlanta Falcons , Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers . But New England will present some unique matchup problems and will attack New York's 29th-ranked pass defense. The Patriots also have allowed just one sack in two playoff games. If the Patriots' pass protection is successful, the Giants are toast. A lot of people, particularly in the AFC East blog, have criticized my Patriots predictions all season. But I have been right about them every single time. New England was my Super Bowl pick in August, and I've never wavered. The Patriots will win Super Bowl XLVI over the Giants, which will give them a chance to repeat and begin to chase dynasty status next season. Reason No. 2: Brady shows no signs of slowing down Last week we did a story on how much longer Brady can play at a high level. Everyone we spoke to says he still has several great years left in his Hall of Fame career. Brady, 34, had one of his best seasons in 2011. He threw for the second-most yards (5,235) in NFL history and finished with a passer rating of 105.6. He almost single-handedly carried the Patriots to an AFC East title and a No. 1 seed. Brady says he wants to play until he's 40. That will be difficult. But after another great year, it's hard to doubt him. It's safe to say Brady will be an elite quarterback for at least the next two or three seasons. Three years is just enough time for New England to make a run at multiple Super Bowls. The Patriots will be a strong contender as long as Brady is healthy. He's had only one major injury his entire career. Reason No. 3: Patriots have draft capital and cap room Super Bowl XLVI Get all the news and commentary on the Patriots-Giants matchup on ESPN.com's Super Bowl Central. • Clayton: 10 Super Bowl questions • Takes: NFL Nation | Pats | Giants • Playoff Centers: Patriots | Giants • SportsNation: Who will win? • Blog network: Patriots | AFC East | Giants | NFC East Guess which AFC East team has the most salary-cap room and first- and second-round picks this offseason? It's the Patriots. Belichick has done a masterful job of fielding a championship-caliber team while simultaneously positioning New England well for the future. The Patriots have two first-round picks and two second-round picks thanks to previous trades. The Patriots also have approximately $20 million in cap room to spend in free agency. Expect most of those resources to go to New England's 31st-ranked defense. Belichick is a defensive-minded coach and I wouldn't be surprised if he spends at least three of those first four picks on that side of the football. That is where the Patriots need depth and impact players. Leading receiver and pending free agent Wes Welker will take up a chunk of New England's cap space, assuming he re-signs. But the Patriots can still add two or three difference-makers in free agency. A cover corner? A hard-hitting safety? A deep threat at receiver? The Patriots have the ability to plug all these holes next season. If this year's Patriots are good enough to win a championship despite their flaws, why can't next year's team? New England should be even better next season. Reason No. 4: AFC quarterbacks are average Name the elite quarterbacks in the NFL: Brady, Aaron Rodgers , Drew Brees and you might be able to throw Eli Manning 's name in the mix now. Most of the elite quarterbacks play in the NFC. This year's AFC playoff field included quarterbacks Tim Tebow , T.J. Yates , Andy Dalton and Joe Flacco . The overall quarterbacking in the AFC is average and lopsided compared to the NFC. That is a huge advantage for the Patriots. New England has arguably the only elite quarterback in the AFC. (We are taking the injured Peyton Manning out of the equation for now.) Brady's closest competition is Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers . Like Brady, Roethlisberger has won multiple Super Bowls. But years and injuries are piling up for Roethlisberger and the Steelers; they didn't win a playoff game this season. The core in Pittsburgh is past its prime. Brady and the Patriots are fortunate they don't have to contend with quarterbacks like Rodgers and Brees, unless they reach the Super Bowl. In the AFC, they can continue to beat the Tebows and Flaccos of the world for the next few seasons. Reason No. 5: Young tight ends Contractually, Patriots stud tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez will be together for at least two more seasons. Both signed four-year contracts after being drafted together in 2010. Gronkowski and Hernandez are both 22 and already in the top 10 at their position. A case can be made that "Gronk" is the best at his position, although it's safer to place him in the top three. As long as Gronkowski and Hernandez are together, New England's offense will be hard to stop. Opponents have yet to figure out how to slow them down. Their development also made it easier for Brady to make quick reads and throws over the middle. That keeps the pass rush off Brady. There is no doubt that Gronkowski will be a Patriot for a very long time. He's the better all-around tight end, and New England will offer Gronkowski a big contract extension in the next year or two. Hernandez's case is a little more unpredictable. He's clearly a No. 1 tight end, but how long will he be willing to play second fiddle? That's clearly not an issue now. Both players are having fun learning and growing together. But two years from now, when Hernandez is in his prime and becomes a free agent, would he be willing to rejoin the Patriots as a No. 2 tight end? Also, can New England pay top-10 money to two players at the same position? But those questions are down the road. Right now, New England is four quarters from securing another Super Bowl win. Will a Super Bowl victory jump-start another Patriots dynasty?
Posted by RustyGriswold[/QUOTE]
Wow, I knew about the two #1s and two #2s in the draft, but I'm not that cap-savvy: I didn't realize they also had $20M+ of free cap space this offseason.
Man, add two studs to that defense and the rest of the AFC might be fighting for second place for the next three seasons.
You and I have agreed for a long time on this: The 2011 Pats are the 1988 49ers (hopefully NE will accomplish the same feat that SF team accomplished).
SF won multiple Super Bowls in the early 80s with a core of mostly veteran guys and a HOF quarterback, peaking with, ironically, an 18-1 season in 1984 (only their 18-1 team won it all, unlike NE's 18-1 team). The original SF core got old but Walsh was able to plug holes for a few years and still make the playoffs while rebuilding through the draft--and during that time he took three straight horrid post-season beatings for his trouble between 1985-87. The latter defeat was a shocking upset at home against Minny as the #1 overall seed in '87 (same as the 2010 Pats losing to the Jets---too young and not quite ready for prime time). The next year SF struggled a bit in the regular season but got it together late, and in the post-season. They won back-to-back SBs and then came within one Roger Craig fumble in the 1990 NFC title game of pulling off a three-peat. The two constants during the three-year, "on the fly" rebuilding process were the HOF quarterback (Montana) and the HOF head coach (Walsh).
Similarities abound here, no?
I just hope the Pats can finish the job on Sunday like SF did in 1988. But getting back to the SB, with a pretty young core and a good cap situation, with a roster that's been 85 percent turned over since their last SB appearance, is still completely remarkable.
Re: Cris Carter
posted at 1/30/2012 8:33 PM ESTIn Response to Re: Cris Carter:
[QUOTE]As an NFL analyst, Cris Carter makes a great ex receiver.
Posted by BelichickDisciple[/QUOTE]Lol...+1


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What Happens When Your Country is Declared Bankrupt
When the financial crisis finally exposed all the inequities and corruption of the Greek government and its system, now known as Kleptocracy, I began to search for information about other countries to learn about their experiences in economics was global or not.
I have experienced firsthand what it means for the people of the bankrupt country of Greece to live everyday while also seeing what happened to Cyprus.
At the university, some students study accounting, economics, and taxation but those studies never delve into the abyss of country bankruptcies or the class (lower, middle, upper) inequalities, and the effects of taxation.
Countries or should I say political parties are now looking at what happened to Venezuela, Greece, and Cyprus and analyzing how those scenarios apply to their own.
Assigning blame won't solve a problem that has accumulated over years of ignorant or blatant stupidity; it will only delay solutions. The answers are incredibly difficult and require leadership and foresight to avoid falling into economic despair.
Which path to take?
The real questions are how much are you willing to lose and whether you can afford to lose your life's work and savings. This is where the decision makers that include the country politicians, the IMF, and Troika step in to take that decision away from the people.
One path
Fast or slow market death and therefore increased unemployment and poverty.
Increased unemployment equals less spending.
Less spending equals businesses closing.
Business closing leads to Government ownership of businesses.
This decision was applied in Greece and has developed into a vicious circle that requires some form of investment injected into the economic stream that will hopefully produce a positive economic result.
Another path
Immediate reduction of individual wealth and assets regardless of class, which is what was decided for Cyprus by OTHERS.
Both paths saved the countries fictitiously. They are not governed their own citizens but by the EU, the IMF, Banks, and even the OECD.
Both countries are expected to struggle into the year 2020 under a global economy that is already showing signs of unanticipated problems.
What's the difference?
The differences are how fast or slow an economic death do you want to face when businesses close. Savings accounts are drained to pay taxes and to repay loans from the countries that your country is borrowing from but to also feed government bloat by employees that continue to be the primary cause of the problem.
Should the fight bring politics into the solution?
If you have classified yourself as being a left, center, or right wing politically do you really think that this applies when the axe falls? The problem is a financial one that requires proper management of government and all that government encompasses including assets, money, and human resources.
The justification by politicians is that you voted for them and what they did is therefore your responsibility. This is true but was the decisions made with complicity or innocence.
This is a fight for your well being, both psychologically as well as financially, not to mention that what you have toiled over the years to amass could disappear over a weekend. Why a weekend? That's when the banks close and you find that a percentage of your money has been confiscated on Monday morning for the good of the country that created the problem in the first place.
Should government employees be judged?
If you bring politics into the fight then each political party will produce their own verborhea (a diarrhea of the mouth) to justify their decision making.
My opinion is that it depends on the country. In Greece the political parties hired employees to insure their votes and therefore my opinion is that the majority should be dismissed. A proposal has been created to objectively rank government employees but they do not want to accept that simply because they fear it will be used by each of the political parties that they do not belong to as a power struggle.
What are they to do after losing their jobs? The only answer that I can give is that they return to farming from which they came in the first place.
The outcome
Greece has not succeeded in positive change as yet and if it does not, then the people will be forced to participate in a war lead by civilians rather than a humane solution.
As an example, the government initiated a real estate tax that should be based on property valuation but is actually based on what the government wishes to collect to continue the use of a vote for job campaign. This is a farce that is devised to show foreigners that the government is changing methods of the past but in actuality this means that as they increase their spending it will increase the amount of taxes that property owners will pay thus creating a mirage of change.
The percentage of corruption in a country will determine how much its citizens will suffer from the sins of the father's.
Economic recovery in a problematic global economy is difficult; add the fact that other countries become the sharks circling to take advantage of migrating citizens; add whatever services or products you produce reduced in price, and the outcome of positive economic results are strenuous.
Class structure is destabilized by the failure of legislation to create and enact fair taxes in a global environment.
I hope that my opinion and this information will shed some light to those who foresee their own country heading into economic doom or help citizens to understand how important it is to have the right people to vote for during elections, and why education is the basis for better decisions by citizens.
The OECD defines the quality of agricultural products to reduce product pricing to make them more affordable without consideration of quality. The quality of food, especially in Greece, is correlated to the longevity and quality of health. Are organizations contradicting the health issues?
Surviving Thirty Years in Greece
Today is the first day of the rest of my life, well not really. I have just closed thirty years of living in Greece while at the same time I celebrate my sixtieth birthday, that's 60 years young in mind, although I can't say whether or not the body will agree with that any more.
It all started as an idea that living in Europe would enhance the biographical profile of my resume. I thought that I would venture into the realm of European Business and learn multiple languages that would eventually increase my net worth as a business partner through networking. It did not and if you are one of those considering something similar, don't bother especially if you live in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia.
I have managed to learn Greek, not just the curse words and phrases, and a few other languages that I rarely use such as Italian, and even tried improving my Spanish, but the culture shock is extremely difficult.
Greeks and Europeans continue to strive in a lifestyle that resembles living in medieval times while using smart phones and tablets on their merry ways to work and market.
Looking back over the years since 1983, I have seen many changes in Greece:
Street signs and maps that actually allow you to find where you want to go.
Traffic lights now operate 24 hours a day.
The banana status; where once upon a time only the wealthy bought bananas.
We used to call ourselves millionaires when we used the Drachmae.
We may soon become billionaires if we exit the Euro.
Every street corner now has a third world foreigner looking for a hand out.
Gypsies have disappeared from the street corners.
The price of a souvlaki has increased a million percent.
You can sit at a cafeteria for few hours, used to be a day, after ordering one coffee.
The average Greek person is now two times larger (fast foods?) in size.
Hardly anyone drinks tap water.
The stores are larger; services are chargeable and almost useless.
The government now uses the English term "fast track" but new business startups still have to wait.
The majority of small businesses are now closed.
Answers to email are still as slow as snail mail.
Government services use the FAX even if they have an email address.
Taxes are filed via the Internet but they will not email you about upcoming payments or other pertinent information.
The sale of make-up has increased about one thousand percent.
Greek women all want to be blondes.
Oh yea, America thinks that it is technologically advanced.
And finally, I am a year older.
Hysterical isn't it, if you don't laugh at this list then you are probably crying.
Sadly, the one most important change that has not taken place is that of kleptocracy.
As with all things over so many years, there have been both the good and bad that can change our lifestyles and form the basis of future decisions. Being human we try to forget those who we have lost and remember the happier moments in our lives.
The best thing that happened to me over these years is my wife, what's her name, who I met in Greece and who I have been with for 24 years now, OMG!
Thanks to my friends in Greece who help keep each other sane. I have managed to survive 30 years of life in Greece.
Anyway, a Happy Birthday to me!
Social Networking is a Misnomer
Some of you may have heard that the use of Facebook and other so-called social websites are on the decline. The reasons include the recent news about the NSA spying and others but I believe another reason is that of the lessening of real communication between people.
We now have the ability to have face-to-face video discussions using voice via Skype or Google Talk (through Gmail), iChat a proprietary video and chat tool for the Mac much like Windows Live Messenger is for the PC (personal computer) and Empathy for Linux are communications programs included or available at no additional cost. Even face-to-face video calls on Facebook are possible by installing some additional software.
Have You Talked – Chit Chatted With Your Children Today?
Probably what you most likely received as an answer from them was about three words in total through your Facebook page or via SMS on your cell phone.
This is not communication; it is the loss of passion and feeling between families.
Users that hate to write even using email not to mention paper, pens, and the postal "snail mail" services can use any of the above technologies using an Internet connection available almost anywhere to communicate with anyone around the world.
The increase in smart mobile phones technology not only provides the ability to talk as a mobile telephone or chat using SMS but it can also take advantage of some programs like those above using the Internet and (WiFi) a wireless Internet connection if a mobile subscription to the Internet is not available to avoid additional charges.
It is sad and disappointing that while technology progresses family relationships may actually be decreasing.
In contrast, communications between individuals and friends of long ago are actually increasing.
If you really believe that you have thousands of "real" friends, go ahead and ask them for help and see what happens.
Over the last few years I have come to realize that I have more friends from 30 years ago than the people or relatives that I know today. Some of my friends have offered to help in many ways without asking for favors in return.
So if you want to have a real friend that you can trust, take the time to develop your relationship.
Capitalism Unraveled by Globalization
It wasn't long ago when the idea of low cost production with high profits gave birth to the ideas that brought everyone cheap and innocuous made products from Asia. The failure by governments and that of the G20 group is that they overlooked the implications of current system to meet the needs of globalization.
I wrote a long time ago that globalization is a failure and I maintain that thought because as we see today, governments and the G20 now realize that they did not make any framework or provisions for taxing companies and other basic concepts as guidelines for the correct progress of globalization.
As a result, global enterprises are the inculpation of being tax evaders when in fact they are not. The global enterprise is not obligated to pay taxes if laws have not been established for them to do so.
This is the consequence of supporting an issue without any thought to future planning that proves the lack of forethought by politicians.
Now that they have managed to create the global monster that is uncontrollable, it uses investment funding by the people of the same countries that push forward the idea resulting in the same people from those countries losing their jobs, their homes, and their future.
The question now is how to stabilize or bring globalization to equilibrium?
Globalization cannot be stopped because doing so would probably instigate a global war between the countries that now control production and the countries that have become stagnant.
Poorer countries are "sending" their people to western countries like a deluge aggravating the economic job crisis and recreating nationalistic ideas such as Nazism to solve the threat.
Countries are drowning in debt again due to the non- distribution of production and therefore wealth between areas of Europe while the states in the USA are slowly beginning to collapse like an imploding stars.
There is no possibility to create a centralized and globalized monetary system at this time due to the differences between countries and therefore there is no simple solution. So, as the system currently exists, it will require much more forethought to correct it; to bring harmony to society.
Even if the possibility existed to create a global currency, the money of the USA, not to mention Europe, would be worthless due to the trillions against non-existent gold reserves.
It is amazing that no one has started as yet the most obvious and commonly used tactic among politicians to solve the crisis, the next global war. Or is it in planning???
Leaders of Bad Behavior Breed Corruption
It is incredible to think that people who make more money than the majority of the world are more inclined to steal but the facts are more revealing today due to the advancement of technology that increases awareness of the media.
In the Greek Sunday newspapers TO BHMA of July 6th 2014, there is an article on page A30 that explains how the disorganization of the legal system in Greece promotes delays, inobjectivity, and the queue of untried cases. This is happening even though the number of lawyers in Greece places the country in second place after Luxemburg.
It includes a comparison of EU countries that provides a reader with a glimpse of intentional inefficiencies that force people into despair and dislike of both a government colligated with the legal system.
Can you imagine Bill Gates being arrested on charges of embezzlement?
As one of the richest persons in the world today, it would probably cause a revolution world-wide if that were true.
There are those who are guilty and they are not being punished with the equivalent that a poorer person would be.
Will justice continue to display tainted signs of bias that will ultimately bring chaos to society?
CEO's, Politicians, and judges are toxic when combined and are now being targeted as they should be for scandals of bribery, insider trading of information, money laundering, and whatever financial or white collar crimes that they commit.
In the same article mentioned above on page A31, the banks in Greece also coordinate their bad loan business dealings to align them with the government and the legal system that is in effect collusion.
The Greek banks request that the government not move forward on the vote over a law since March 2013 for the collection of over 500 million Euros in penalties for bad loans so that they can use the money to their advantage. Doing this prevents the government from collecting overdue taxes and other fines and penalties but would take this money from the bank accounts thereby reducing funds that banks profits.
The EU is now studying the legal systems of many EU countries to attempt to bring them into alignment. This of course is happening only because they are being delayed by countries diliquent in prosecuting cases that in their own interest otherwise they would simply expedite everything in the usual manner of the EU, without priority.
The True Cost of Hidden Money
Why do international balance sheets each year show more liabilities than assets?
Hidden Taxation Obscures Competition
Competition is a key word used commonly by Greek politicians to justify the reduction of salaries and pensions of Greeks. The problem is not the salaries and pensions but the hidden taxes and extremely high taxes that companies must pay to hire a Greek that detrimental to competition.
In the Greek Sunday newspapers TO BHMA and KATHIMERINI of July 6th 2014, an article was unleashed that should have been revealed by the Troika long ago, with a list of 200 taxes that are being collected on behalf of third parties!
Some of the hidden taxes in addition to the 23 percent VAT sales tax!
- Plain paper tax for printers and photocopies
- Another photocopy tax of 4 percent
- Movie tickets include 12 percent
- Rail road train tickets include 2 percent
- Engineer tax of 3 percent for buildings
- A sound and video reproduction tax of 6 percent
- A tax on companies performing public projects of 3 percent
- A real estate tax of 0.775 percent on property values
- A 0.2 percent tax on imported candles
- A tax on loans of 0.6 percent
- A tax of one or two percent on the private school tuition
- Three Euros per application of weddings, baptisms, deaths, and divorces
- Rental tax percent undisclosed toward a public employee fund
- Another rental tax of 3.6 percent and a stamp tax amount undisclosed
- Passenger tickets on ships include 5 cents for the mooring employees
- Passport (5 year) renewal includes a social security tax of 20 percent and 22 Euros of postal charges even though the passport must be collected in person
Only a few of the third parties are mentioned in the article. The article does state that even the government does not know how many hidden taxes exist as they cannot list them all.
Caveat Emptor and Caveat Venditor are not applied in the Greek market. This is also why Greeks Pay More for Services and Products.
The Greek government or state charges a whopping forty (40) percent towards social security benefits that was recently lowered by a ridiculous four (4) percent to motivate companies to pay it. The social security is not a tax mind you but a fund that is supposed to provide workers with insurance coverage, retirement, and unemployment benefits however it is an expense to businesses that increase the cost of labor.
The reasoning to reduce salaries was based on the fact that if you hired an employee for 1000 Euros per month, the company is actually paying 1400 Euros per month in labor costs.
Now that salaries begin at 400 Euros per month the government has realized that they are not collecting taxes at all but have increased the use of illegal employment while destroying the internal economy that is a primary source of building the social structure.
The real problem of competition in Greece is not the salaries but the hidden cost of taxes.
In reality, the reduction of salaries and pensions is anathema to use a Greek word to the economy because it does not allow more money to circulate which in turn would provide more internal market growth. More internal market growth will result in more employment and more taxes being collected even if the taxes are of a lesser amount. The end result would be a more stable economy.
Unless a new line of thinking by both the people and the politicians of Greece are affected, Greece will never be a competitive country.
State Corruption is Alive and Well in Greece
Top tax collector in Greece faces task of restoring confidence
Bloomberg: "Theoharis dismissed over taxing the rich"
Greek Church Out of Tax Department Jurisdiction
Translated by Google: A Greek website that discloses the hidden and illegal taxes
The New Order Defines Extreme Poverty
In Greece a disturbing new plan is being developed by the government that may affect everyone in western countries around the world. In essence as capitalism deteriorates with closing of businesses and the loss of employment, lower and middle class individuals and families will fall into the category of poverty.
When the net income is less than 4,800 per year for the entire family that has no other means of subsistence, the government is setting the maximum amount of "guaranteed income by the state" not exceed 4,800 Euros.
250,000 households out of 10M people are to receive guaranteed income in 2015 as a test!
When the test if over will your country be next? Is this what the G20 been planning?
The basic allowance is to be set at 230 Euros per person with a home where the home has an assessed value of less than 80,000 Euros.
This means that anyone who is living on the street either by themselves or with their family will receive a "beneficiary allowance" that will supposedly allow them only to eat.
Other assets that can exclude receiving a guaranteed income by the state are bank accounts of less than 9,600 Euros, investments, and automobiles with an engine capacity of over 1400cc's.
As reported in the article, the guaranteed income is equal to 400 Euros according to the members of the family. The "beneficiary allowance" is to be set at 230 Euros for the spouse with an additional 70 Euros for a child, another 50 Euros for the second child, another 50 Euros for an additional child, totaling 400 Euros.
Based on the current level of taxation on real estate, this means that most if not all lower and middle class will be forced to forfeit their homes because anyone at this level of income will not be able to pay their real estate taxes.
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This will ensure the guaranteed income provided by the Memorandum - Who and why will be left out
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Αυτοί θα εξασφαλίσουν το εγγυημένο εισόδημα που προβλέπει το Μνημόνιο – Ποιοι και γιατί μένουν έκτος
Surname Changes Create Challenges
Genealogical Surname Changes by Greeks living abroad and within Greece are common.
Greek surnames change for different reasons and that includes translating from the foreign characters to Latin characters, shortening of names for convenience or to make the transition into another society, and by mistakes of the government employees responsible for recording the names.
Some examples that I have seen include, Haralambopoulos being changed to Harris, Bournias to Pournias or Vournias and others.
It happens due to errors using transliteration between two languages where a person may assume that the transliteration is based on character sounds when in fact it may be based on a standard set by the government. In the case of Greece, once a name has been recorded, it is set in stone unless a person is willing to challenge the government bureaucracy.
Papadopoulos to Payne is not the first Greek person to have his name changed but a recent article on a Greek website cited it, link below.
The Oscar winner of Greek origin, filmmaker Alexander Payne revealed while speaking at the Canadian broadcast television station CBS: "We changed our name from Papadopoulos Payne to avoid hatred against the Greeks."
It is sad that racial opinion caused this to happen. I hope that this trend does not continue today so that people everywhere can display their last name proudly for their ancestry and heritage.
Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne
The article about changing a surname for racial reasons translated to English
The original article in Greek at the website of findkastoria.gr
Airline Industry to Slave Economy Class Lifestyle
We all want decent services but at what cost? It is not the first time that you may have read about airlines exploiting the use of fees for anything and everything from selling bottles of water to outrageous charges for overweight luggage.
The USA once again leads the pseudo assault on the airlines effectively doing nothing to stop the tactics while in an article from a newspaper quoted a $3.4 billion profit from overweight luggage charges that travelers are forced to pay once they get to the check-in counter.
In essence, the same business tactics are being used by Internet providers offering a multitude of options creating chaos for consumers and multiple lanes of Internet speed using the abuse of the Net Neutrality rules.
So what is happening is that instead of making the buying of services easier, companies are claiming that private business must be separated from governmental intervention is in effect making everything more complicated and more expensive due to hidden charges. Yes, the charges are hidden otherwise you would know about it before the check-in or receiving your bill.
Most consumer protection statutes require full disclosure of taxes and fees when booking through any channel of distribution as long as YOU file a complaint.
On a recent trip to the USA, I bought my air tickets online and noted that I was only allowed one piece of luggage to be checked-in and one piece of hand luggage on the plane. The checked-in luggage was set at 23 kilos or approximately 50 pounds in weight. I don't know about you but when I travel to halfway across the world, I would prefer to have more than a few changes of clothing especially when I am travelling for about 18 days. Okay, so many readers will say if you can afford to travel around the world then you can afford to pay for an extra piece of luggage.
It is the fault of the airline industry that luggage sizes and capacities are not standardized.
Now here's the catch, the problem is not paying but as to how much. Heading from the EU to the USA using a UK airline I was asked to pay an additional 200 Euros while on return from the USA to the EU using the same airline I was asked to pay 200 US Dollars. There is the rub! Why is there no global price using a set currency?
Maybe the weight of the luggage should consider the length of time during the trip. If one is travelling for only two nights then of course they would not need to carry more than one piece of luggage but if someone is travelling for more than ten days then it is logical that they will take at least two pieces of luggage.
Row, row, row your plane
Remember those movies where the slaves rowed the ships while chained to their seats. We have now returned to that time period. And you though time travel wasn't possible.
Have you travelled with a modified 747 lately? Airlines are now modifying the original layout of the planes by removing the toilets. What this means is that you once had 300 passengers in economy class sharing eight (8) toilets and they are now sharing four (4). This allows the airlines to put in more economy seats.
Remove the spacing between the seats and between the rows and what do you have? Slave Economy Class! By adding another line of seats in the center portion of the plane they have managed to squeeze in even more passengers.
Once again this proves that the airline industry must be regulated to protect consumers otherwise they might start putting seats into the luggage compartment with a brand name of fourth class.
The Threads of Feeling Exhibition
The Threads of Feeling exhibition is an incredible story about children being left at what was called a foundling hospital but which in actuality was a children's home that became an adoption center for those that were left with a promise of cloth to be reconnected to their mothers again.
I managed to see the exhibition at the DeWitt Wallace Museum of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. The exhibit ran for a full year and was the only presentation offered in the US and has now returned to London.
This remarkable and touching display was organized by John Styles and The Foundling Museum. It brings to life the stories of mothers and children separated by circumstance. During the mid-18th century, mothers left their babies at London's Foundling Hospital with the purposes of being able to work or start a new life in the new world.
The number of children that were processed was greater than 16,000 of which only 152 came back to get their children.
When mothers brought their babies to the London Foundling Hospital, they were asked to leave behind a token: a scrap of fabric, a ribbon, a button, anything to distinguish one child from the next. Each token was carefully preserved with a description of what the child wore upon entering the hospital, to assist in a reunion if the mother should ever return. They left their children at the Hospital and retained a small piece of cloth or fabric as a token and a means of identification. Each scrap of material reflects the life of a single infant and that of its absent parent and many included a letter due to the assumption that it may have taken years to rejoin the family.
These records were collected into booklets and were meticulously maintained over the years, so that we can now witness a glimpse into the lives of these young children from hundreds of years ago.
The story about the Threads of Feeling Exhibition.
A slideshow depicting the stories with images of the cloth that became a genealogical record.
Does the EU Abuse Internet Payment Services?
E-Commerce Merchant Gateways are something that everyone uses when they make a purchase or sale on the Internet.
It provides a simple procedure that allows you to use either a payment service like paypal or your credit card to buy, sell, or transfer money world wide.
Of lately, the ECC-Net othewise known as the European Consumer Centres Network, a government agency, has now decided that consumers are terrorists or money launderers until proven otherwise by demanding copies of personal information.
How do I know this? This recently happened to me.
I received an email from PayPal (Europe) Sarl et Cie SCA notifying me that my account would be suspended or frozen if I did not provide proof of who I am.
I provided them with scanned images of my driver's license and my telephone bill in accordance with their demands.
There is no one that you can email directly because this is their policy so you have to wait until one of their "gods" decides whether you are a terrorist or money launderer.
This again is another indication about the justice system and organization of the EU.
Since when does some organization have the right to play judge and jury about whether or not you are a criminal without a trial?
I have used Paypal since 2003, that's 11 years, and now they decide that I maybe a criminal because I happen to have some money transfer of less than $1,000 (one thousand) US dollars.
According to their website, the European Consumer Centres Network CANNOT:
Force traders to take action: they rely on persuasion (but it works in at least half of the cases they handle!)
So what are they good for except to be another European organization created by a bunch of EU Brussel hoodlums that are being paid by taxes of EU citizens?
Instead of watching people that make yearly transfers of less than 10,000 Euros why hasn't any European organization put an end to the real money transfers above 100,000 that is happening between its politicians and companies?
If Europe wants to be centralized then they should either make the decision and do it or end the EU. The farce of a centralized Europe has gone on long enough.
Are these types of checks supposed to protect citizens when others are freely moving large sums of money that are from bribes and other forms of corruption?
Aparently while there is an organization for European citizens there are separate organizations in other countries and each with their own rules and regulation
European Consumer Centres Network
The Financial Services Register UK
Is Transcendence the Ultimate Search Machine?
Transcendence is a perspective into the possibility of immortality through digitization.
Dr. Will Caster played by Jonny Depp develops a method of digitizing the mind of a person to produce a technological omniscient sentient version of himself.
Another story that comes to mind is "Colossus the Forbin Project". This story produced in 1970 instills the idea that machines will rule mankind.
As with many sci-fi movies and TV shows, the end result is like that of the classic Frankenstein, man-made terror supersedes the unanticipated.
Max Headroom, played by Matt Frewer, is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television show produced in 1985. The story line is about a reporter, Edison Carter, that dies and transcends into a digitized form ending up cruising the wave lengths of power lines through to television.
At the time of his death he encountered a road barrier with a sign above stating "MAX HEADROOM 2.3M" that is the only thing that he can remember in his digital form and that becomes his new identity as a television character.
Today we hear about the machines that Google and Bing use to accumulate gazillions of bytes of data that seamlessly help find what you are looking for but at the sametime feed the corporate machine to learn everything about you.
But what about character or conscience?
Will computers transcend the abilities of the human brain?
Stay tuned to this channel as you pass through the Twilight Zone of life.
Colossus the Forbin Project
Original British Edition - Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future


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Happy Monday. There have been a lot of changes here at the CB household this past week, the biggest being me returning to a Speech-Language Pathologist position. That's right–I'm using my SLP brain after a year off. It has made for a hectic week and I have some adjusting to do for sure. It's amazing though–I feel slightly more on task and have made a little more time in my day to do non-work sorts of things. Like leisure reading.
WHAT? I never read for pleasure anymore. This week I finished two books I had started months (even a year) ago and started two new ones. Look out. And what goes better with a good book? Ice cream.
We enjoyed some of the warmer weather. The kids have been WAITING to ride bikes.
I committed blasphemy by buying a can of store-bought frosting. Short on time means go with what's easy. And color it green while you're at it.
I have come full-circle, returning back to the place where I started my career as an SLP.
I found a new favorite candy bar. I want to buy these in bulk and eat them every day.
The long and the short of it. There is all sorts of excitement coming. And the weather is getting warmer. THANK GOODNESS! Have a great week!
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It's amazing to me how much more organized I become when I have more to do. Since I know I have to cram everything into one day, I go into over-drive with scheduling my life so I can do it all! Best wishes as you return to your work!Reply


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior Pentagon leaders offered a sober assessment Thursday of the impact of automatic spending cuts on the military, arguing that they are embarrassing and unsafe for the United States while imploring a stymied Congress to stop them.
Defense hawks on the House Armed Services Committee joined in the hand-wringing over the reductions although many of the lawmakers voted two years ago for the budget law that set the cuts in motion and have consistently resisted Pentagon cost-saving proposals such as closing domestic military bases and raising health care fees.
The hearing with Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, represented a Washington version of "Groundhog Day" -- defense officials sounding the alarm, lawmakers bemoaning the effect and nearly all agreeing that no resolution was in sight.
"I would love to see it fixed, but I don't see it fixed. I don't see the will to get it fixed," Armed Services Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., told reporters after the hearing. "I think it's a huge game of chicken with tremendous consequences."
Across the Capitol, senators were even more blunt as they voted for a nearly $600 billion defense spending bill for fiscal year 2014 that ignores the limits of the spending cuts.
"We screwed ourselves here," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "And somebody in this body on the Republican and Democratic sides need to find a way to work with our president to undo this. Not just for sequestration sake, but for the long-term interests of the country."
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel presented the worst-case scenario for the U.S. military if the Pentagon is forced to slash more than $50 billion from the 2014 budget and half a trillion over 10 years as a result of congressionally mandated cuts.
The reductions would come on top of $487 billion that President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans agreed to in August 2011.
Among the dire prospects, the Navy would drop from 11 carrier strike groups to eight or nine, the lowest number since World War II. The Army would be at levels not seen since 1940, with cuts of more than 100,000 additional soldiers.
The service is already planning to go from a wartime high of about 570,000 to 490,000 soldiers by 2017. The current plan to reduce the size of the Marine Corps to 182,000 from a high of about 205,000 could also be changed, cutting it to as few as 150,000 Marines.
The Air Force could lose as many as five combat air squadrons as well as a number of other bomber and cargo aircraft.
"We know the world's watching. It's embarrassing and unsafe to be in the situation we are in, which is scrambling in this way," Carter told the committee.
Winnefeld said the budget uncertainty has left the military in a "strategic no-man's land." In the first years of the cuts, the Pentagon will "grab money wherever we can, mostly out of the modernization and readiness accounts, which is particularly disruptive to our ability to defend this nation."
Carter said that if there were some money left over at the end of the fiscal year from spending on the war in Afghanistan, the Pentagon would apply it to maintenance and try to reduce furloughs of civilian employees.
A bitterly divided Congress has shown little inclination to reverse the automatic cuts, with deficit-hawks maintaining the upper hand.
"This is not a foreign threat. This is a self-inflicted wound. And Congress needs to behave much, much better when it comes to funding our military priorities," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., who introduced a bill with Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to at least give the Pentagon more flexibility with its money.
Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee displayed the depth of the divide preventing a solution to protect the Pentagon from billions of dollars in automatic budget cuts.
Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the panel's top Republican, voted against the bill because the total is nearly $19 billion above the caps for defense spending put in place by the 2011 budget law. When the defense bill is combined with other appropriations bills for 2014, the total grows to $91 billion more than current law permits, he said.
"I have opposed every bill that this committee has reported this year, not because they have no merit, but because I cannot support a top line $91 billion above the level at which across-the-board cuts will kick in," Shelby said.


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