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Road Trip for Middle Eastern/Persian/Afghan - where should we go?
- Dave MP Feb 15, 2009 12:37 PM
Tomorrow some friends and I are planning to take a short food road trip, possibly to East or South Bay (but potentially anywhere within a 70 mile radius of SF).
We're hoping to eat things that we normally can't eat in San Francisco - or at least at a place that is the best of its type in the Bay Area. We're intrigued by Afghan or Persian food, since it seems like options in San Jose/Fremont areas might be really good, but we'd potentially be open to any kind of food (or even make multiple stops)
I found this thread on Persian places in Peninsula - any updates on any of these?
And also references to Kabul Restaurant in Sunnyvale and Salang Pass in Fremont.
We'll probably be leaving SF around 10 AM and want to return by 3 or 4 PM....so the meal will be lunch.
We probably would not want to spend more than $30 per person.
We'd be open to other things too if they were really worth the trip - South Indian, Taiwanese, Croatian, Other Middle Eastern, etc. etc.
Any ideas? I want to come away from the lunch feeling like it was worth the drive, since I don't get to drive to places like Fremont or San Jose very often.
Thanks a lot!
Dave MP
To me, Kabul seems on par (or less) then Helmand in SF. I can't speak to any of the Persian places but it does sound more interesting because you hear less about it in NorCal, compared to Afghan.
Also, there's, Falafel Drive in in San Jose that I've never been to but is on my list. Seems a bit casual for what you're looking for.
A friend mentioned a place, Armenian Gourmet in Sunnyvale. I have no idea if it's good but I've had excellent Armenian food in SoCal and I've always wondered about NorCal.
Helmand Palace is better than Kabul, although I like both. The best thing at Kabul is the kebabs.
Worth the trip: Shalizaar in Belmont is like visiting another country, in part because it's filled with elegant expat Persians. Not exactly a stop on a crawl, since it's extremely gracious service and somewhat upscale. Still in your budget though. Also pretty close to the city, and you could hit Harmony in San Carlos while you're in the area for frozen yogurt.
Salang Pass in Fremont is good and authentic, as is DeAfghanan, the tiny place across the street with the bread and kabobs. But more if you had some reason to drive that way than really worth an hour each way. I kept hoping for a more distinct looking Afghan neighborhood, but the community has been here 30+ years and is better assimilated than that.
I love the falafel and banana shakes at Falafel Drive in but not the pita, and would detour there on your way somewhere else.
Taiwainese is worthy of its own separate excursion.
re: Dave MP
You could do a Taiwanese excursion another time. Iran and Afghanistan both deserve their own days.
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re: Windy
Deer jerky: Some people don't like it, but I love all forms of jerky. It is a little sweet, covered in sesame seeds and chile flakes. Kind of woody in texture, so your jaw gets a good work out without talking.
There has to be something in that store that would suit your fancy, though. She said they pickle their own mangos and guava and other weird fruity things.
re: Dave MP
I've never had Korean in SF that matched Oakland or San Jose - I've only really been to brother's - but that's probably a different trip, and you should likely do oakland.
re: Windy
My one meal at Salang Pass last year was much better than anytime I ate at the old Helmand (many times before they closed). I haven't been to the Helmand Palace. The kadoo was not as sugary sweet, the aushak was much superior. The lamb shank with eggplant was really flavorful, and there was another dish with some kind of greens which also had more vibrant flavor and spicing. I left there feeling like it was the first time I had ever eaten real Afghan food.
Salang Pass is a nice sit down restaurant. Their lamb, borani kadoo (spicy pumpkin), aushak (dumplings--they keep telling me they're derived from Chinese food for some reason), faloodeh (rice noodles in a rose water dessert) are particularly good. No matter how much we eat at Salang Pass, no one can resist going to De Afghanan for bolani and more kebabs to go. I think the bolani is much better at De Afghanan. There is also an Afghan grocery store next door to Salang Pass with fresh bread in the back. Fremont's kind of a dead town, though. We usually plan around a hike or fruit picking, but tomorrow is going to be ugly weatherwise, I think.
If you head off to San Jose, no matter what you decide for your main meal, you can stop off in Grand Century Mall for snacks and stuff to take home--the food court has a lot of different random Vietnamese dishes. Sugarcane drinks, shakes, banh xeo with a huge plate of herbs and mustard greens on the side, coconut shrimp cakes (I can't remember the name, but they're pretty popular) are my favorites. The snack place on the end of the mall has better deer jerky, pickled guava, pickled mango, etc than the one closer to the middle, although they are kind of pushy about overloading your orders sometimes. Way, way better than the stuff at Lee's in SF. Also, I think the bakery at the front is cranking out fresh pandan waffles.
re: sfbing
I love the Korma Challow at Salang Pass, a complex tomato sauce based dish with chicken or lamb, served over rice.
I like the chicken kebab at De Afghanan most, I find it the most moist of all their offerings. Their bolani is huge!
re: DezzerSF
Salang Pass
37462 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536
De Afghanan Kabob House
37405 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536
If you head down the Peninsula you'll pass Kabul Afghan Restaurant in San Carlos, which in my opinion is superior to the (unrelated) Kabul Afghan in Sunnyvale on El Camino.
NOTE: DaveMP has reposted his Vietnamese Snack Food Crawl in San Jose report, at http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/597001
re: Dave MP
Thanks for the report back! I'm glad to hear that you went with Vietnamese - a much better bet for something different than San Francisco than the Afghan places, I think. Do consider South Indian for cuisines in the future. It's another cuisine where the South Bay gives you a whole different set of options than does San Francisco.
re: Dave MP
Glad you had a good time at Century, even if the stands were a bit hit and miss. if I had known that you were going to eat mostly in San Jose, I would've also suggested nearby Bun Bo Hue An Nam, for their Bun Bo Hue with or without penis. It is really good--spicy with chunks of blood, pigs feet, beef leg, tendon, but not too offally. Comes with the traditional shaved banana blossom and without the inch thick layer of red grease. But if you had gone there, there probably would've been limited stomach room for the food court, so never mind.
You should definitely try Salang Pass and De Afghanan on your next road trip. I wonder if one's stomach could take combining them with a side trip to San Jose?
Thanks for the tip on Harmony-the SF yogurt places don't sound nearly as good.
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re: sfbing
I have to second Bun Bo Hue An Nam, best BBH I've had, and probably one of the best Vietnamese soups even.
De Afghanan Kabob House, Fremont
Shalizaar, Belmont (no question)
Zeni, San Jose (I've been to 9 Ethiopian restaurants and this was the best BY FAR)
New Kapadokia, Redwood City
Middle Eastern:
Gourmet Express, Milpitas (weekday lunch only)
Pakistani/Middle Eastern:
Gulzaar, San Jose
Indian sit down or buffet:
Turmeric, Sunnyvale
Armenian Gourmet was very mediocre in my one visit.
re: Dave MP
SF's was not as good as my memory of Fremont's chapli kabob.
re: Dave MP
I agree. Fremont is better than SF. I thought the chicken was drier here. Although, it will do in a pinch.
re: Dave MP
I've only been to the Fremont location. It's pretty much the opposite of where you'd go for a business lunch (i.e. it's a dive), but the chapli kabob (beef patties) and bolani (potato bread) are to die for.
Katya's Afghan rankings
1. De Afghanan, Fremont
2. Helmand Palace, San Francisco (I last went when it was The Helmand; I used to love their lunch buffet)
3. Kabul, San Carlos
4. Kabul, Sunnyvale
5. Salang Pass, Fremont
6. Pamir, Emeryville (food court)
7. Kabob Afghan & Persian Cuisine, Sunnyvale
re: katya
I wanna testify for Pamir. But I also have to admit near total ignorance of Afghani cuisine.
I do not recommend the food court slop they feature in their hot table buckets. Nothing wrong with that, per se. It is what it is. But I have found that ordering from their menu (or off the menu, go ahdead and challenge them) yields much better food. Check out their chicken biryani, for instance. Generous servings, and in the case of the biryani, be prepared for some spice -- which I really appreciate.
Pamir Afghan Cuisine
5800 Shellmound Way, Emeryville, CA 94608
re: BernalKC
On Yelp I still gave my last ranked restaurant, Kabob Afghan & Persian Cuisine three stars (though it was mostly because the Persian food was okay - the Afghan kadoo was a disaster).
I know I ranked Pamir second to last, but it's really a pretty good option for a food court.
re: katya
De Afghanan has an SF branch on Polk St, and another in berserkley on Univ. Ave (they have a web site for the specifics, and their menus). I think the selection in the northern outposts might be simplified--they both qualify as 'hole in wall'. We had a very tasty meal at the Polk St. location; good flavours, nice portions and reasonable prices.
re: Dave MP
appetizers--sauteed pumpkin, sauteed eggplant. One main course--mantu. Plenty of the fresh, delicious flat bread, and I think the tea was complimentary. The quantity was just right for two of us to be comfortable with room for dessert. Feeling satisfied from eating moderately was probably partly from the yoghurt, which gives a richness similar to the heavy cream in continental food, without the heaviness.
re: Dave MP
Potato bolani, chicken kebab, mantu, borani kadoo.
But definitely the bolani.
re: Dave MP
The De Afghanan in Berkeley is good, but the food's no better than Helmand Palace in SF.
These days I'd go to Zaki over De Afghanan. Probably no better than Truly Med in SF, but it's a pleasant space.
Indus Village's specials include dishes I haven't seen elsewhere.
Zeni in San Jose is at the top of my South Bay to-try list.
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DaveMP: Have you tried Amber? There is one in San Jose, Mountain View and the latest in San Francisco in the pedestrian walkway (Yerba Buena Lane) between Market and Mission, with the entrance being closest to Market & the corner of 4th Street). Your tastebuds are in for a treat. Go for the brunch (all-you-can-eat) on Sundays $19.95. No nasty things left on steam tables for hours. Beautiful fresh, beautifully spiced Indian food, with specialty vegetarian fare that you normally do not find elsewhere. The Korma curries are memorable, and you can taste things like apricot in the sauces which will educate your palate on how these dishes are supposed to taste. Most local Indian and Pakistani restaurants leave out ingredients like it was going out of style and think we won't notice the lack! Just imagine if you were serving omelets and left out the eggs! Next for taste, hearty portions and "bang for the buck" - try Chutneys on Jones near O'Farrell; Raja in the Haight and Indian Aroma on Polk. Punjab Kebab House is also good, their bread is from scratch, service is extremely slow, so unless you have no place to go... For the saag of your dreams - it's still either India Palace (Fillmore) or Shalimar.
Afghan food - Helmand; Persian food - best in Bay Area: Alborz on Van Ness. Taiwanese - Taiwan Restaurant at 445 Clement, SF. (I was brought up in South China and I can recommend that one).
re: IlanaW
There's an Amber in SF now.
Amber India
Mission and Fourth, San Francisco, CA
>anywhere within a 70 mile radius of SF ... Other Middle Eastern<
Don't forget the North Bay. Petaluma has the long-standing Aram's, owned by an Armenian family, and the new Real Doner (Turkish).
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Kim Kardashian truly loved Kris Humphries back in the day and never had any intention of frauding him into marriage.
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Details are still leaking out regarding the testimony in this terse Kris Humphries-Kim Kardashian divorce case, but sources tell TMZ that the former did not even show up for the proceedings.
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If you people think the show is "nonsense" why do you even acknowledge it, let alone have updated reports on it every week? That makes no sense! Anyway, for once, hopefully there will be justice and the courts take Kim's side. Kris's lawyer backed down, when your own lawyer backs down, what does that tell you? That's a very very bad sign.
It's obvious that this articles author has some Kris biases as well as basic ignorance of legal process. A deposition isn't a proceeding in which the opposing party is even allowed at..so the slam on Humphrey is totally out of line. A deposition usually only has opposing attorneys, the court recorder and the person being deposed (a witness or other party being question to relavent evidence to the case.) Accordingly this deposition becomes evidence usually to bolster or discredit the witness testimony later at.trial ...its not a trial in or of itself though it certainly can feel like it. That a witness is sticking to her story is irrelevant to the facts but makes the story more credible before a jury. Court cases now a days have little or nothing to do with truth or justice but are decided primarily upon first the most appealing of the parties physically and then the charm of the attorneys. Even the opposing stories get lost in all of the paper shuffle and trials are long drawn out murderously boring affairs that most jurors fall asleep in before the defense can even make their case. If this goes to trial with a male jury Humphrey doesn't have a chance. Unless the men are gay..of course.
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Give me a break. She loved him about as much as a fat kid loves brussel sprouts. Did they ever even live together?? I know the show is fake and all but on the show she wouldn't let him move in with her....I could totally see that happening. She only loved him for the few minutes of the wedding ceremony on camera and that's about it.
So, you claim the show is "fake", yet you use what happened on that "fake" show to prove something against Kim? Of all the Kim haters I've argued with, you are one of the most two-faced of them all. Congratulations!
I loved him so much that we had a 2 days honeymoon with the cameras rolling. I loved him so much that when we came back we went and lived with my sister, her boyfriend and a baby, I loved him so much that I had a fit when he sent his clothes to my house in LA. I loved him so much that I did not go for marriage counseling when I realized things where not easy regarless of the fact that I play a marriage counselor!!!!!!! Oh yes I loved him so much as #2 becauuuuuuuuuuuuse Kanye with his 90M networth was #1. MB
PS. Where is your crystick.......did you loose it?
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Lying twat
I loved him soooooo much and then after 72days I was like omg I'm just a basketball wife…no jet setting, no high profile "friends"
So I'm just gonna divorce the love of my love after 72 and try make his life miserable as much as possible, go behind his back and shoot extra scenes an edit them to make him look like an idiot because I just love him so much and now. I'm so in love with a man I started screwing during my Reggie Bush days an I'm expecting his child even though my mom didn't want me to fall pregnant with my own husband because we both knew I was gonna get rid of
him anyway lol… I mean he wanted a quiet life without
cameras and paparazzi, seriously what's the point of
Buying and wearing expensive clothes if the paparazzi
Is not gonna see them and post on their blogs? Uggh
And not to mention my gullible, delusional, stupid fans
who keep watching my show and making me rich
Anyway back to the topic_I loved my ex hubby so much
I just thought it would be cool for my new ego maniac,
un talented, disgusting mouth bf to trash him in his new song lol and that as so perfect we got so much attention… And now I'm being
Exposed ugh its so annoying
Kim only married him for the money.
The two million doll or ring , the
Eighteen million dollors for the t.v. show,
And all the gifts that she kept everything.
He got nothing. That marriage was very
Profitable for her.
Thanks sharon
When you lie so often, you actually
believe those lies. Just like Mrs
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MCT via Getty Images James Franklin announced player signings on a NFL draft-style board.STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop rolled off his hotel mattress at 5 a.m. Wednesday and skipped his usual breakfast of Froot Loops and Pepsi.
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Tina Alexander, head of Web & Digital for Celebrity Cruises, says, "The travel apps align with our brand image, are sleek and easy to use, and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite helps us marry the interactivity of function with content. We've created something clear and informative that reinforces the brand."
Celebrity Cruises is also using the analytics capabilities in DPS to monitor downloads and article to gain a strong understanding of how users are engaging with content and interactivity. Other features the company plans to explore include push notifications for content updates and social sharing to enable customers to share their vacation dreams and plans with their social networks. The apps were produced by DPS agency partner JWT/Casa Miami.
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February 13, 2014
Learn about DPS and Content Management Systems at the MPA's Meet the Innovator Lunch
Looking to amp up your productivity while getting your content onto more devices? You'll want to catch Adobe's presentation at the MPA's next Meet the Innovator Lunch and Learn on Tuesday, March 11 from noon – 2:00pm in New York, NY. You'll learn how using content management systems, like Adobe Experience Manager, with DPS can streamline the process of publishing across multiple devices and the Web, maintain consistency across brand touch points and decrease publishing costs for multi-channel distribution.
The Adobe team will show you this workflow and walk you through some current examples of publications built with DPS and AEM–including Vanity Fair.
Speakers will include:
- Steve Hart, Senior Solutions Manager, Adobe Publishing
- John Metzger, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Publishing
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, March 11 from noon – 2:00pm
Location: 757 Third Avenue, 11th Floor New York, NY 10017
To register, contact Margaret McCarthy at email@example.com or 212-872-3756 with questions.
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Lunch+Learn: Adobe DPS+Content Management Systems – Faster App Creation, Reduced Costs, and a More Consistent Brand Experience
February 10, 2014
Watch Top Gear video to learn how engagement and revenue skyrocketed with DPS
Back in November, we shared a case study that highlighted the success BBC Top Gear, the world's leading automotive magazine, experienced by switching from a PDF replica format to the fully interactive experience that DPS delivers.
Now, Simon Carrington, publisher of Top Gear, explains how this transition has had game-changing impact on key metrics. Since moving to DPS, subscriptions are up 175%, downloads up 200%, ad revenue up 130%, and total revenue increased by well over 150%. Plus, get a glimpse of some of the adrenaline pumping-video footage included in their app- and learn why it's the number one reason their readers keep coming back for more.
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February 7, 2014
Adobe and AM&P to host digital publishing events for association leaders
Association professionals turn to AM&P (the Association Media & Publishing) for insight, information and connections to the association media community.
Adobe is excited to partner with the AM&P to offer two events in February that are essential for leaders from associations who are looking to advance their digital strategies.
Executive Think Tank: Defining Your Association's Mobile Strategy
Association executives will join digital publishing luminaries at an Executive Think Tank dinner, Thursday, February 20 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm ET at Vidalia in Washington, DC. It's an ideal forum for association leaders who oversee e-media, publications and marketing and want to explore how other associations and non-profits have developed and executed on successful digital strategies. Special guests include:
- Declan Moore, Executive Vice President, National Geographic Society and President, National Geographic Publishing and Travel
- John Falcioni, Editor-in-Chief, Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Mike Lee, Senior Advisor, Digital Strategy and Operations, AARP
- Scott Davis, Design Director, AARP
To reserve your seat, please contact Sarah Patterson at (703) 234-4107.
Webinar: Introduction to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
Adobe's Bridget Roman, Sr. Product Marketing Manager and Colin Fleming, Digital Publishing Evangelist, will guide you through what it takes to seamlessly transition from a PDF version of your magazine to a highly interactive reading experience with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
This one-hour webinar touches on topics that assocations new to DPS will care about most, including:
- Ways that DPS ensures efficient and affordable production costs for your organization
- How to use the robust feature set in DPS to create strong adoption of your digital publications across your member base
- Real-life success stories from other assocations and non-profits who are using DPS to achieve their digital publishing strategies
Don't miss this information-packed webinar Thursday, February 27 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET.
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I'm having a bit of a design crisis.
I like the sleek, modern look of Blogger's new dynamic views but I dislike the lack of control, most notable that you can't use a stat counter. It also removes formatting for the post summaries; mixing in photo captions, without context, in with the text body; rendering most of my text summaries totally unintelligible.
For the moment, I have the background black but since I have hundreds of posts with dark grey text, meant to be visible against the pink my blog has been dressed in for years, I doubt I'll stay married to this high maintenance look.
I'll think on this darker look a bit more but some older post just aren't compatible with the modern Blogger and you simply can't change the text color anymore.
Anyway, if you just have to read an old post that appears blank - just highlight it. You'll probably find all the secret messages I use to leave for friends and enemies in hidden text to catch them googling themselves.
That Girl Tasha
Exposing my passive aggressive inner monologue to the world since 2006
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Saturday, October 18, 2014
My blog's 8th aniversary!
I can't believe I missed my October 6th blog anniversary!
It's harder and harder to find time for this old friend of mine. I thought I was busy eight years ago with my lawyer husband, four homeschooled kids and two dogs in a cabin out in Big Arm, MT. Now I have six homeschooled kids, four dogs, forty chickens and frankly, just being the wife of the Oath Keeper guy is a full time job by itself.
Well, here's to eight more years of nonsensical, disorganized bitching.
It's harder and harder to find time for this old friend of mine. I thought I was busy eight years ago with my lawyer husband, four homeschooled kids and two dogs in a cabin out in Big Arm, MT. Now I have six homeschooled kids, four dogs, forty chickens and frankly, just being the wife of the Oath Keeper guy is a full time job by itself.
Poor baby stayed out in the cold all nightHopefully this year we'll add goats and sheep to the mix, as well, and at 40-something I am toying with the idea of one more round in the baby department. I do wish I was a few years younger though, but don't we all.
Well, here's to eight more years of nonsensical, disorganized bitching.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Expansion of the terrorist watchlist requires neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence"
Well, well, well, back in 2004 my husband had about 100 books laying open on his desk and his auxiliary desk (the kitchen table), each one completely filled with sticky tabs, bookmarks, torn strips of paper and thousands of little notes.
His paper, Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status, was the product of those endless nights of note scribbling and is a brilliant fucking masterpiece (and like most masterpieces also really fucking depressing).
It basically lays out predictions of how looking for Taliban terrorists back in 2001 would eventually devolve into rounding up anyone who supports individual freedom as a terrorist and what it would look like. Spoiler Alert; it looks a lot like this shit right here.
We should turn this into a drinking game. Take a drink every time you're declared an extremist, a shot when you make a watchlist, drain the bottle when supporting the constitution gets a terrorist label slapped on your forehead.
His paper, Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status, was the product of those endless nights of note scribbling and is a brilliant fucking masterpiece (and like most masterpieces also really fucking depressing).
It basically lays out predictions of how looking for Taliban terrorists back in 2001 would eventually devolve into rounding up anyone who supports individual freedom as a terrorist and what it would look like. Spoiler Alert; it looks a lot like this shit right here.
We should turn this into a drinking game. Take a drink every time you're declared an extremist, a shot when you make a watchlist, drain the bottle when supporting the constitution gets a terrorist label slapped on your forehead.
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a TerroristThe Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence" to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
The "March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance," a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government's secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings. The new guidelines allow individuals to be designated as representatives of terror organizations without any evidence they are actually connected to such organizations, and it gives a single White House official the unilateral authority to place "entire categories" of people the government is tracking onto the no fly and selectee lists. It broadens the authority of government officials to "nominate" people to the watchlists based on what is vaguely described as "fragmentary information." It also allows for dead people to be watchlisted.
Over the years, the Obama and Bush Administrations have fiercely resisted disclosing the criteria for placing names on the databases—though the guidelines are officially labeled as unclassified. In May, Attorney General Eric Holder even invoked the state secrets privilege to prevent watchlisting guidelines from being disclosed in litigation launched by an American who was on the no fly list. In an affidavit, Holder called them a "clear roadmap" to the government's terrorist-tracking apparatus, adding: "The Watchlisting Guidance, although unclassified, contains national security information that, if disclosed … could cause significant harm to national security." Continue here
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Border Patrol Agent Draws Gun on Boy Scout
This makes me so furious, my heart is thumping in my throat.
|Boy Scouts walk to different events at the 2005 National Scout Jamboree. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I really think these feds need a lesson in the law. It is not fucking illegal to take pictures- you fucking cock suckers (cock sucker, of course, being a term of endearment).
I think an organized protest of iphones snapping away at the border is a good idea.
I understand the temptation. But just because you wear a badge doesn't mean you get to make up the law to suit your druthers.
I can't just threaten arrest to people for wearing crocs or to Peter Jackson for chopping up the Hobbit.
It's because of this type of thing that I don't like to let my kids go on scouting trips that cross the border into Canada.
I feel bad sometimes because they do a lot of awesome events out in the Canadian Rockies and we're only a few miles down from the northern border (they also do a lot of stupid shit too-like hiking grizzly territory without firearms).
|From Gondola, Banff, Alberta, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Anyway, article below.
Here is the blurb on this from ReasonContinue here
A group of Boy Scouts from Central Iowa received a lesson they won't forget in federal manners at a border crossing from Canada into Alaska. According to the scoutmaster, a casual snapshot of a Border Patrol agent got the group of about two dozen scouts and volunteers detained, searched—and one of them ultimately held at gunpoint . . .
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Rand Paul; At least he sold out for a high price
I forgive him for his sins; most notably endorsing Romney, because, lets face it, selling out for a presidency shot is pretty fucking understandable. Most people sell out their convictions for the sake of a more comfortable conversation over drinks.
So this Washington Post article sort of ripped on Zogby's latest poll . I'm not so sure that he would even be given a fair election but I'm looking forward to the fun.
I miss the old Ron Paul gang.
Late night sign painting party circa 2007
My three oldest kids when they were still little
Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers starting trouble even before he started Oath Keepers
I loved those Warhol style signs
NSA still withholding Documents on Death of UN Secretary-General over 50 Years Later
Apparently, someone involved has lived too long. Just once I would love to see some honesty, just for the novelty of it.
This response to your request was dragged on as long as possible but was, unfortunately, not long enough.
Despite all our best efforts, some of the people involved in the aforementioned request are simply not dead yet. Previously released SIGINT documents all involved dead people.
The classified documents will continue to remain so until anyone who could possibly be implicated is wearing a toe tag.
Also, for fun a pic from the NSA beauty pageant
National Security Agency Refuses to Release Documents on Mysterious Death of UN Secretary-General Over 50 Years Ago
July 16, 2014
by Mary Curry
continues to withhold all portions of two documents about the 1961 death of Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia – now Zambia. The Agency continues to withhold this historically significant material despite a FOIA appeal from the National Security Archive that provides specific examples of previously released SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) documents from the 1950s and 1960s and explains why the Agency should not treat fifty-year-old documents as though they were created today. The Agency's response to the Archive's appeal merely reiterated the same exemptions and statutes listed in its original August 2013 denial letter. Its response makes no reference to the evidence provided to the Agency. The Agency also refused to consider the wide public interest in the United States, the international community, and the United Nations for information about Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's mysterious and tragic death while flying to Ndola to resolve a conflict in the Congo. The Agency has refused to help clarify the historical record. The rest hereThe National Security Agency
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Is that rhetorical?
Is The TSA The Most Monstrously Incompetent Agency In History?
Back in the 1960s my uncle took a small suitcase down from his closet. He packed it for a business trip and headed to the airport.
While passing through security the guard discovered a handgun. My uncle explained he hadn't realized it was in there. The guard then asked for my uncle's phone number so he could call his wife to pick it up. He unloaded it and made the call.
My uncle made his flight and likely slapped the stewardess on the ass. My aunt picked up the gun. The end.
No one was shot. No one was arrested. No one was probed.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has identified a massive new threat to domestic airline security. No, it's not ISIS, Al Qaeda, or the Taliban.
It's the dead battery on your smartphone.
Last week, TSA announced what it called "enhanced security measures" in which passengers will be required to power up their cell phones before boarding their flight. According to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, TSA has "assesse[d] the global threat environment and reevaluate[d] the measures we take to promote aviation security."
Your cell phone is evidently part of a "global threat environment," and so it must be turned on in order to prove that it's a legitimate mobile device.
"Powerless devices will not be permitted onboard the aircraft," the TSA now threatens. "The traveler [with a powerless device] may also undergo additional screening." It seems the only truly powerless device in this situation is the traveler, who must yet again submit to the whims of an incompetent and unthinking bureaucracy.
"Powerless devices will not be permitted on board the aircraft." Presumably, that means you'll either have to miss your flight or throw your phone away. A few questions spring to mind as a result of this new announcement: is the TSA incapable of simply having a phone charger on hand with which to test a "powerless device?" And is the agency so criminally inept that it has no way to determine whether a "powerless device" is, in fact, an explosive device?
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Rehashing Michigan's lost "Right to Farm"
This is an older article (from May) but it caught my eye all over again as it was being passed around on the homesteading sub-Reddit.
It's always about control, isn't it?
There is no other skill that is half so intimating to a control freak than the ability to feed oneself.
Barbaric governments use food control, just ask Mike Tyson's tattoo. Your mother-in-law probably does too. You know the thing where she offers to loan you money right when you're at your lowest. And you accept and suddenly she's telling you how to discipline your kids and now you feel all powerless to tell her to fuck off because you're still late on paying her?
Ya, that thing.
I'm just speaking in general terms here, of course.
And the crappier the location (made so by other outrageous laws) the more likely this is to go on and Michigan is the crème de la crème of crappy locations due to bullshit laws.
I really think everyone should grow a mother fucking corn field on their front lawn. It would cost almost nothing and if they really wanted to protest, let a few chickens go and have their merry chicken way with it all.
Michigan residents lost their "right to farm" this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the new changes "effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers of animals." Backyard and urban farming were previously protected by Michigan's Right to Farm Act. The Commission ruled that the Right to Farm Act protections no longer apply to many homeowners who keep small numbers of livestock.
Kim White, who raises chickens and rabbits, said, "They don't want us little guys feeding ourselves. They want us to go all to the big farms. They want to do away with small farms and I believe that is what's motivating it." The ruling will allow local governments to arbitrarily ban goats, chickens and beehives on any property where there are 13 homes within one eighth mile or a residence within 250 feet of the property, according to Michigan Public Radio. The Right to Farm Act was created in 1981 to protect farmers from the complaints of people from the city who moved to the country and then attempted to make it more urban with anti-farming ordinances. The new changes affect residents of rural Michigan too. It is not simply an urban or suburban concern.
Shady Grove Farm in Gwinn, Michigan is the six and a half acre home
to 150 egg-laying hens that provide eggs to a local co-op and a local
restaurant. The small Michigan farm also homes sheep for wool and a few
turkeys and meat chickens to provide fresh healthy, local poultry. "We
produce food with integrity," Randy Buchler told The Blaze
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1235774/michigan-loses-right-to-farm-this-week-a-farewell-to-backyard-chickens-and-beekeepers/#fBdoc83YifLHRVDk.99
It's always about control, isn't it?
There is no other skill that is half so intimating to a control freak than the ability to feed oneself.
I'm just speaking in general terms here, of course.
And the crappier the location (made so by other outrageous laws) the more likely this is to go on and Michigan is the crème de la crème of crappy locations due to bullshit laws.
I really think everyone should grow a mother fucking corn field on their front lawn. It would cost almost nothing and if they really wanted to protest, let a few chickens go and have their merry chicken way with it all.
Michigan residents lost their "right to farm" this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the new changes "effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers of animals." Backyard and urban farming were previously protected by Michigan's Right to Farm Act. The Commission ruled that the Right to Farm Act protections no longer apply to many homeowners who keep small numbers of livestock.
Kim White, who raises chickens and rabbits, said, "They don't want us little guys feeding ourselves. They want us to go all to the big farms. They want to do away with small farms and I believe that is what's motivating it." The ruling will allow local governments to arbitrarily ban goats, chickens and beehives on any property where there are 13 homes within one eighth mile or a residence within 250 feet of the property, according to Michigan Public Radio. The Right to Farm Act was created in 1981 to protect farmers from the complaints of people from the city who moved to the country and then attempted to make it more urban with anti-farming ordinances. The new changes affect residents of rural Michigan too. It is not simply an urban or suburban concern.
|English: Chickens at Daubies Farm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1235774/michigan-loses-right-to-farm-this-week-a-farewell-to-backyard-chickens-and-beekeepers/#fBdoc83YifLHRVDk.99
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
A story of two births Part I
I do have to go back in time a bit for this birth story; not to go into excruciating detail about how I discovered homebirth and how I never saw myself as the type.
No, I'm the type.
I've always been the type.
I have to go back to tell you about another birth, the one that happened two years, two days and eight hours before this one.
I had five beautiful kids and while I considered having more, I was pretty focused on getting back into shape. I spent my life as a fit, size one but after five children I had evolved into something that barely squeezed (and I mean squeezed, because I would not wear a fourteen) into a twelve. So if I was going to have more it was going happen after I lost ten more pounds.
Then something really weird started happening.
All my life I'd had these sort of "psychic" moments. Nothing too dramatic, just a few odd things; I would occasional hear someone's thoughts. Once in a great a while I'd have a dream that would unfold a few days later in real life. It was always something unbelievably mundane and meaningless.
Once I was so very excited to find a Pinesol type cleaner that was potpourri scented. An hour later my husband called to ask me, "What the hell is potpourri?" and why hasn't he been able to get the word out of his head for the last hour.
I often dubbed myself the World's most useless psychic. If nothing important were to happen that day, I would the first to know the details of it.
But overnight the events went from three, four times a year to several times a week. It was very strange, even for me.
And then I realized I hadn't had a period in forever.
I was pregnant, almost twelve weeks. I had been so busy I just didn't notice. With all my other pregnancies I had been waiting to be far enough along for a pregnancy test to even work. I always knew. This one had crept up on me.
My best friend in the entire world was a midwife. For my past pregnancies she had flown all over the country to help birth my kids. She retired because she was battling breast cancer but had still driven three and a half hours in the night to deliver my youngest son.
She was so so thrilled to find I was pregnant again. She was in no shape to deliver a baby but was determined to be there for it. A deeply spiritual person; Kay believed strongly that the door to generations before was wide open during a birth.
For months we made plans. My wonderful Montana midwife, Marcy (the same midwife who delivered my fourth baby) was more than willing to deliver this baby while my friend, Kaye, helped in anyway she could.
Kaye's condition worsened quite a bit over those months. We decided we would rent a motor home and her partner could drive. They could set up in our yard, we had plenty of room. I'd have the baby there, in the motor home.
Kaye was determined to be there for this birth. Her family told how she did everything she could think of to keep strong.
Meanwhile, as my pregnancy continued so did this strange psychic phenomenon. I'd dream some silly scene, just some person pushing a cart across a store while the cashier announced something on the PA . The next day it would happen in front of me. But along with all this trivial stuff came something else; an unending sense of forebode.
I could not imagine this pregnancy ending well.
I tried really hard to figure out why I felt this way (and tried harder to ignore the idea it might simply be a premonition). My first thought was that after five perfect pregnancies and five super easy births, maybe I felt I was pushing my luck. I was 38 years old. Two of my friends who had this many children also experienced (including Kaye) a stillbirth. I reasoned that this, this was why I felt this way.
Kaye often talked of pregnancy being the walk through the valley in the shadow of death; that you were a bridge between worlds. I know a lot of this came from her own experience. She had been carrying twins when one stopped moving. She gave her still alive baby three more weeks in her womb so he could have the time he needed, and then induced herself, six weeks early.
We talked a little about birth and death being intertwined.
Kaye felt as strongly about death as she did birth. She would not numb herself, she didn't want to miss any time she had left to foggy, dulled thinking.
I did not tell her about this sense of dread I carried because she carried so much of her own.
I did tell my Montana midwives. Marcy set up a thorough ultrasound at the hospital to put me at ease. They checked for everything imaginable. Everything was absolutely perfect.
We made a trip from Montana to Las Vegas while I was in my 28th week. In Vegas, we spent some time with Kaye. She wanted to feel my belly. Her arms and hands were swollen and huge; one arm was almost unusable from her non functioning lymph nodes. Two people helped her stand while her daughter filmed what everyone knew to be her last prenatal.
After we left, she told her daughter she couldn't trust her own hands because they were so swollen but she felt something wasn't right.
By the time we made it back to Montana I was 30 weeks along. I realized that my own fear had kept me from bonding with my baby. I was still unable to visualize the birth and focus on it like I had always done at this point in pregnancy, but I at least felt I needed to visualize my baby. I hadn't even begun to prepare for her. So I forced myself to remedy that. I found a car seat on eBay and ordered a bouncer seat online. I picked up a few more baby clothes. While standing in the Salvation Army, I heard someone's newborn baby cry. At that moment, I almost cried myself. I imagined that sound coming from my own baby. I imagined nursing her and looking into her eyes. Just hearing that baby's beautiful cry had allowed me to really intellectualize that I was going to have a baby. This baby was alive and kicking. Everything in the ultrasound had been perfect. Her heartbeat was perfect (I was calling the baby her at this point because I felt it was a girl, but we hadn't checked). And soon, I convinced myself, I would be hearing that beautiful sound from my own baby.
I stood in that stupid thrift store aisle between a broken organ with twenty thousand "do not play" signs and a row of stretched out bras and fell in love.
I held onto that feeling. I couldn't seem to stop the sense of dread and fear but I could push passed it and remember how much I loved my baby. I went in for a prenatal and again everything was perfect. By the next check up it would be time to order my birth kit.
I was at 32 weeks. My little boy laid his head on my belly to talk to the baby like he did every night. She kicked back a little like she always did. He drifted off to sleep and so did I.
I awoke about an hour later to the hardest kicking I have ever felt. I told myself everything was fine. Only a crazy person thinks a baby kicking hard is a bad sign but down inside I knew those would be her last kicks. I fell into a deep deep sleep.
Later that day we would go in to check on her because she hadn't moved. It would all play out like I had seen in my head a million times. No heartbeat from the Doppler, off to the hospital, no heart beat on the ultrasound. It took two weeks and two attempts to get labor started; I just wasn't ready to let her go.
I had never had a hospital birth or a hospital anything before. They had me on Cytotec, Pitocin, a ton of IVs. And I really didn't give a f**k. I didn't take any pain meds. I wanted to be there for it all. I didn't want to give anything less to her than I gave my others.
I didn't want doctors and nurses around my baby. I'm still not sure how it happened but somewhere in that time span, the room sort of cleared out. I think the doctors and nurses didn't know enough about a natural birth (at least pain wise natural) to understand that the baby was about to be born. My midwives Marcy and Carrie walked in then to visit and check on us. The baby came then with one small push. Caught by midwives while the staff were strangely gone from the room.
Kaye was on the phone through a lot of it. She was devastated. She had been living for this birth. She reminded me that I would want to take time with my baby; to look at her and look at her as long as I could. And so we did. We spent hours with her. But it wasn't enough.
It will never be enough.
Because at the end, we still had to hand her over to the morgue people and at the end my three year old couldn't understand why we left our baby at the hospital.
A few weeks later my due date came, and a few days after that, Kay died in her sleep.
We kept ourselves very busy for the net year. We signed our kids up for tons of sports, scouting, and every second of summer was some type of out door activity. After the summer we moved form town to a place in the country. I needed the change of scenery. We grew a garden, had chickens, staying busy was the thing.
I still wasn't able to be around an infant though. It set off an almost PTSD reaction. My youngest who was three when the baby died (Sonora Rain was her name) couldn't watch or read anything with a baby in it without crying.
This weird psychic thing was still going on a year or so later and then suddenly it stopped. I realized it had been forever since a dream or daydream had come true. I couldn't remember when I'd picked up on someone's thoughts last.
It was a beautiful summer day, just before the fourth of July when I discovered I was pregnant again.
And this time it felt wonderful. There was no sense of dread. I was certainly scared but more in a gun shy sort of way instead of the ominous sensation that had followed me with the last pregnancy.
After almost twenty years of marriage and endless gypsy roving we bought our first (and last!) house. Moving was quite an adventure. We are practically an army. We had a blast one upping our game of "What's the most redneck thing you've ever done?". This move brought on so many hillbilly opportunities. In the end, we decided that moving the chicken coop full of chickens, miles down the road was the topper. Extra credit was given when the neighbors' peacocks ran down the road the whole way behind it.
I nested like crazy. I planned and overspent and over-organized. I bought cloth diapers because, I reasoned, we lived so far out in the country, but really it was because they were all so pretty. I watched a million YouTube videos on cloth diapering. I exhausted every home birth story available on line (if your story says homebirth in the tile- I have read it) occasionally running into one of my own stories and sometimes not recognizing them until halfway through.
I was positive this baby was a boy. We chose Justice for the name either way (but this was definitely a boy).
I ordered everything I could possibly need. When it came time for my birth kit I agonized where to set up. I washed and re-washed baby clothes.
About 38 weeks in we thought we would go in for another ultrasound just to be sure (we had had one a while back as well). We live over an hour from our midwives (the same ones who caught Sonora, this birth would be closure and healing for them, as well). We were thinking of giving my body a nudge to labor just before my due date (I usually go over by a week or more) while they waited at my house for something to happen. I have history of ridiculously short labors. Even if I called right away, had I gone into labor naturally, an hour might not be enough time.
This ultrasound would let us know if the position was good and, if so, we could then start evening primrose oil (to soften my cervix).
The ultrasound tech was a bit gruff and hostile (toward homebirth, I believe) and a bit scared because of my history. She said the water was far too low. My placenta wasn't doing its job. The baby was small and wasn't showing the deep breathing pattern she liked to see. I looked over to see tears running down five year olds cheek.
Midwife Marcy called in her favorite doc. The doc had spoken with the tech. and it seemed dire to all of us. I wondered if my baby was OK. Had my failing placenta already harmed him? We did the non stress test. The doc seemed a bit muddled, as all seemed perfect to her. She said to go home for now, but come back in two days to check again and possibly start labor. This would not be a home birth unless I went into labor within two days on my own. I knew this would not happen.
I felt like I was caught up in a whirlwind of fear and this desperate sensation of wanting a baby that I would never have. At the very least I would have a hospital birth. I had spent this entire pregnancy reassuring my now five year old that this birth would be nothing like the last one, that there would be no hospital, no doctors, he would never be separate from me. He could hold my hand the entire time and then he could hold the baby's live wiggling hand. But now we were looking at induction of my very stubborn cervix two weeks prior to my due date and at least three weeks before I would normally give birth. I was not at all convinced that induction would work. Even if the baby (a big if) were alive and healthy, at the very least I was going get hacked and possibly separated from my baby and I was going to break my promise to my already traumatized five year old.
Two days later after having torn apart my home birth station, I did what I have never done before. I packed a hospital bag. Car seat in the car, nightgown, toothbrush; I wasn't sure what to bring, in seventeen years of babies it never crossed my mind. I grabbed some baby things and also unearthed the "Welcome with Love" home birth storybook. I promptly threw it against the wall.
We met our midwife at the doctor's office where she would do her own ultrasound and non-stress test.
I noticed immediately that her demeanor was considerably more relaxed than two days ago. She had since gone over the ultrasound pics herself and found them not dire but inconclusive. She then ran her own scans and found the water to be a little higher than average. Then baby's hear beat was perfect. His breathing pattern was perfect. He was a good sized kid. And he was busy playing with his toes. You'd swear someone nudged him and whispered act casual. This was not a baby in a life threatening situation.
And then the doctor said this,
"I see no reason why you couldn't still have a home birth."
I could have sobbed with relief and I did but I waited until we got to the car. All of us, my husband, all my kids, we just sat in the car and soaked it in. We were all smiling with relief
She still wanted to see me have this baby by the due date as the risks go up quite a bit after the date at my advanced age (can you just feel my disdain for that term in the italics?).
At 39 weeks and 3 days the midwife crew showed up with every midwifery/witchcraft/medicinal /herbal concoction known or imagined or once thought of to possibly start labor.
And so that afternoon we began
Every 15 minutes I was trying something else. I kept walking. I kept taking herbs. I'd get a few contractions here and there but nothing too real. My cervix was opening and softening a little. That evening I felt a pop that almost seemed audible.
Oh, I know that sound, mucus plug and water all in one pop. Well, this was good, it meant that all these herbs were doing something, but now it meant yet another clock ticking threat. It meant I had to get into established labor within a certain number of hours. I didn't even ask how many, but I knew the drill, if the bottle of castor oil comes out, I'll know I'm approaching deadline time.
Everyone started getting tired.
We all went to bed for a bit.
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Hamilton County Schools' fiscal year 2012 budget is only $1.4 million short of balancing, the district's chief financial officer estimated Thursday.
"For us, that's real close to being balanced," Tommy Kranz said during a Hamilton County Board of Education Finance Committee meeting. "Normally that number is closer to $6 million or $7 million."
But that was only Kranz's "Plan A."
If the Hamilton County Commission succeeds in withholding the payment in lieu of taxes money set aside for schools, as commissioners discussed doing at their meeting Thursday, Kranz would have to use his second document -- Plan B -- which would put the school district about $7.4 million in the hole.
"And there's not enough in our fund balance to cover it," Kranz said.
The commission suggested Thursday that the county set the PILOT money aside and use it for land acquisition for schools, building new schools and renovating and maintaining current facilities.
The school system planned to put the money, which traditionally has been handed directly over to it from the county, in its general purpose fund to help balance its budget.
Board member Linda Mosley, who chairs the Finance Committee, said she was "very unhappy" that the commission and school board had not had a joint meeting before the commission announced its plans Thursday.
"I feel like our integrity has been questioned. We are being told that we cannot control our own finances," she said. "If we decide to go forward with Plan B, we need to consider some severe, severe cuts to our program."
Mosley suggested several programs the school district could make cuts to in order to save money. Her suggestions included band, athletics, music, art, maintenance and the county-promised German program provided for children of Volkswagen families.
Board member Rhonda Thurman accused Mosley of trying to tug at people's heartstrings by suggesting cuts to "buses, band, books and ball." She said she understands why the commission thinks it should have control over the PILOT money.
"The commission is the one who has to go to the public and ask for tax increases, and they think it's way to easy for us to spend our money," she said. "I can just see lots of areas where we can cut. Cut the magnet office if we have to."
The school board's Facilities Committee met Thursday after the Finance Committee to discuss future building projects. Board members decided they could not move forward with a budget or building plan until a joint meeting is scheduled with the commission to resolve the PILOT money issue.
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Don't you dare ask the thousands of seniors and elderly in Hamilton County to pay more taxes to prop up a School System that can't teach a dog to fetch a stick.
I haven't heard Dr. "Can't teach a dog to fetch a stick" Scales comment this directly on anything in years. And his sidekick, Tommy "Smoke and Mirrors" Krantz, has never properly addressed the accommodations for children who need or have IEPs. Setting the stage for the school system to lose another $1,000,000 PLUS when the next Zachery Deal vs. Hamilton County Board of Education is filed.
Send them both looking for a job I say. The school system here in Hamilton County has gotten in such bad shape under those two's guidance that 72% of the kids in Junior High can't even read gang signs.
There's High School kids dealing drugs that can't even count the change back from a $100 Bill.
If the parents weren't showing them how to accurately weigh the drugs, we would be in a mess.
Get replacements for Dr "Can't teach a dog to fetch a stick" Scales and Tommy "Smoke and Mirrors" Krantz before they drive this school system deeper into the ground. WAKE UP PARENTS. YOU SIT AND DON'T SPEAK UP AND YOUR KIDS ARE BEING GRADUATED WITH A MINIMAL EDUCATION. Your kids will end up living in your basement 3 additional years if you don't get some people with "FRESH" ideas running the school system.


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The first thing towards change is self-realisation.
And I have had realisation this week that I have developed a morbid habit of self-indulgence, self-pity, self-doubt and negative thinking.
What a potent cocktail it is. If someone tells me they have it, I would advise them perfectly how to go about it.
But in myself, I hadn't realised it myself.
It has put the burden of being HAPPY squarely on me.
It has also given me a power to make myself HAPPY.
This power needs to be utilised to change my habit.
And I know it is not easy. The way it slipped in my otherwise upbeat personality was un-noticed. I started blaming everything around me for things which I was convinced had turned out to be below my expectations. I withdrew from the world and started thinking about how world was mean and cruel. I took comfort in creating my small world and hid away in it. Not physically, but metaphorically.
Because I have a rock star of a husband, he let it go after cautioning me against it gently. When he was met with 'THIS IS WHO I AM AND IT IS MY NATURE' from me, he let it go. Even now, his first instinct is to tell me to do anything I want.
And I want to be happy. Plain and simple. I know it is not easy. The spiral of thoughts and the habit of looking at surroundings judgementally and with worry is not easy to let go.
I was reading many positivity blogs and tips. They all tell the same things.
Don't be perfectionist cut yourself some slack
Don't overthink- especially about past and future.
Love yourself above all.
I know to large extent, these feelings are triggered by homesickness, loneliness, chaos at workplace, looming launch of the two projects, shifting houses alone, a city which is not exactly my idea of a home. And these are legitimate reasons to be worried and sad, especially in a foreign country.
But I have a choice to either slip in self-pity mode or happy with whatever I have got mode.
And there are such kind gestures, comfortable living, relatively less pressure at work, a definite deadline for me to go back home and good money.
It is in my power to look at them, feel happy, enjoy small things, feel things in perspective.
It is a lesson not only for my year abroad, but for life.
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text: Dem Senators to Strip Gun Rights from Military Vets Print article Send a Tip by AWR Hawkins 5 Dec 2012 post a comment Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) hopes to stop a major defense spending bill in its tracks now that Democrats have added an amendment that allows them to take away the guns of certain military veterans. The amendment contains language that bans gun ownership for a broad swath of veterans designated "mentally incompetent." Coburn says the approach is sloppy, and that as of right now, "veterans who simply cannot support themselves financially" are placed under the mentally incompetent label and therefore "cannot buy or possess a firearm." Coburn wants the language changed so that a veteran's case is adjudicated individually, thereby giving him or her the chance to avoid the broad label of mental incompetence when and where it doesn't fit. But Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) shamelessly support the amendment, dismissing Coburn's concerns altogether. Said Schumer: "If you are mentally ill, whether you're a veteran or not, just like if you're a felon, if you're a veteran or not, and you have been judged mentally infirm, you should not have a gun." Schumer has missed the point altogether or maybe he gets it, and just doesn't care. But Coburn is not saying that the "mentally infirm" should have a gun. Rather, he's saying the Democrats in our government are on the verge of allowing a bureaucracy to broadly and impersonally label many of our veterans mentally incompetent when they are not, thereby denying them the ability to "buy or possess a firearm." Think about it: These veterans are our freedom fighters. They defended our freedom with a gun in their hands. And now, in some cases, thanks to the Democrats, we are planning to reward their bravery by denying them the right to keep and bear arms here at home. Shameful.


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9. Remember that when your family pries, it's because they love you.
Unfortunately, women are more stigmatized when not paired up, says Dr. Harman. "There's a public misperception that marriage makes everything better, and that all spouses are happier and healthier than singletons," she says. Reassure older folks who think women need men for survival by saying, "I appreciate your concern, but I'm doing well and can take care of myself without a partner's help." Or, "While I'm interested in meeting someone, I'd rather wait than rush into a relationship that's not quite right."
10. Be selfish.
Take the cash you would've used on a gift for a partner and spend it on yourself. "Use the opportunity between now and New Year's to upgrade your life," says Lorraine. Start a new fitness routine, get a mini-makeover or go on a shopping spree. "Take control by doing something that lifts your spirits and makes you feel beautiful," she says. Make the season all about you—and get a solid start on the New Year.


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NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended Anaheim Ducks forward Jean-Francois Jacques for three games after he illegally checked an opponent in the head, the league announced Monday.
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The suspension is a result of Jacques' hit on Columbus forward R.J. Umberger in a game Sunday night. Jacques elbowed Umberger's head after the Blue Jackets forward took a shot on goal at 14:17 of the third period. Jacques was assessed a five-minute major penalty for elbowing on the play.
Jacques is considered a repeat offender. He was suspended on Sept. 24 after illegally coming off the Anaheim bench and trying to start a fight with Vancouver's Mike Duco during a pre-season game. He was suspended for two pre-season games and five regular-season games for that incident.
Jacques will miss games Jan. 10 versus Dallas, Jan. 12 at Calgary and Jan. 13 at Edmonton. He will be eligible to return Jan. 15 at Vancouver.
Ducks defenceman Francois Beauchemin also has a hearing Monday with the NHL for his hit on Jackets forward Jeff Carter.
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Beauchemin received a 10-minute misconduct for the hit.
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