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Saint Joseph Convent School
Digital English Communication course
Digital English Communication Course is a new English literacy course from Saint Joseph Convent School and Bright Future International Training & Services (BFITS) to assist SJC students in obtaining English fluency within an online environment. The aim of this course is to expand the world in English to Thai students through student-created online journals called blogs (weblog). Students will create a personal blog, research topics online, post their own writings, comment on classmate's posts, and respond to comments. This will increase their awareness, confidence, and creativity to communicate in English both in and outside the classroom; as well as enhance their digital competency to navigate the world wide web effectively.
Promote interaction
Interact with classmates and the digital world in English. Students will navigate the internet through topic research, comment, and respond to classmates in English
Improve literacy
Reinforce and build on written English skills. Students will express experiences, opinions, and creativity in writing blog posts. Spelling and grammar checks will be used to reinforce rules.
Expand English use
Take English outside the classroom. Students will gain skills, confidence, and interest that will allow them to communicate in English not just in the classroom, but outside school and digitally.
Course grading
Participation (20%)
Participation is based on the quality of your comments. Quality is writing on-topic and using correct spelling and grammar in your writing. Your teacher will make 4 random in-class / online checks per term grading for comment quality. Your participation will help create and interactive online English community.
Homework (20%)
Homework is based on the quantity of your comments. Quantity in the number of comments posted on classmates writings. Your teacher will make 4 random in-class / online checks per term grading for comment quantity. Homework will be assigned at the end of each class / week
Class work (50%)
Class work is based on the content, quality, and quantity of the writings you post on your blog. Content is researching and writing about topics discussed and writing opinionated and creative posts. Your teacher will make 4 random in-class / online checks per term grading for post content, quality, and quantity.
Final (10%)
A final will assess all the skills learned in the course. These skills will be presented on a student created poster board highlighting their blog. It will include the students' favorite posts, comments, and pictures. More detailed final information will be given when assigned.
About BFITS:
Thurakitsarasonthet School (โรงเรียนธุรกิจสารสนเทศ) found in 1996, provides educational services to both professionals and younger learners. BFITS began in 2002 as part of Thurakitsarasonthet school. The philosophy behind BFITS is a holistic approach to education. We believe in delivering modern and integrated educational programs that respond positively to the needs of younger learners.
BFITS is also a full service training company providing a comprehensive learner-centered experience. We pride ourselves on taking a proactive approach to the learning experience.
Our use of technology allows us to tailor a program to suit the need of the learner and school while maintaining a high standard of education and low cost. BFITS works collaboratively as a team with our schools to provide the best responsive educational programs.
About Icon Group:
Icon Group Thailand (IGT) is a group of ESL TEFL TESOL websites providing educational resources and information to teachers, schools and students around the world with a special focus in Asia and the Middle East.
The group was founded in 2003 with the launch of TotalESL.com, an ESL TEFL TESOL job and teacher resource site. In 2009, IGT partnered with BFITS to develop Learning Management Systems (LMS) and elearning for BFITS students and teachers. Since then, the group has expanded to cover educational information, resources, services, elearning and more!
IGT is proud to partner with BFITS again to bring digital English literacy to the students of BFITS partner schools!


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CRAZY bastard now i know why its title is secret. First i did not finish the series yet but im getting hints. 1st lead guy gf killed by his dad's butler. Second the secret of prosecutor and lead guy, secret of prosecutor and lead female, secret of lead female father that he knows what happened, secret of the grandmother that the baby is not dead she sends him away because she feels guilty about the secret of prosecutor and lead female.
Ahn Do Hoon Left her dad to die. That prosecutor is so pathetic, lame and EVIL!
GwenI agree. I think he left her father to die somewhere!
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wow her father is dead... I'm shocked... what did the prosecutor do after he found the father on the streets... he disposed of him because he remembered what he saw in the night of the accident? that his daughter was on the right chair and that the prosecutor was driving the car... wow
bibion the contrary, I want them to end up toghether somehow... for him to find a way to heal his heart and his obsessive mind through her good heart, (it's clear that in childhood he lacked love and 'heart touch' being with a father as he has, that's why he has such a behavior, he is not bad he is just a wounded soul...)... and for her to find escape from her obsession with her prosecutor 'boyfriend' who is anything but a 'friend'...
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I think i'm hating that PROSECUTOR. How could he do that to his love. Did he really killed his father in law?
Does anyone know what the song at the end of this episode is?? The Prosecutor is a monster! He should act like a man and come clean. I can't wait until his secrets come out. Ugh.
phiechanme too! at first i thought she looked so unnatural. but after i watched more and more of the episodes, i fell in love with her acting ;_;
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from the past episodes, i didn't hate the prosecutor because it's also visible as to where he is coming from. You can see that he really cared for her and waited till she comes out from prison. But if he really killed her father, baah! that would be totally insane.
rusehuh? waited until she comes out of prison? he was the one who stopped the approval of her parole for early release because of his selfishness. is this love? this question was also asked by min hyeok when he found out the results of the parole.
secretI think minhyuk not care... he just obsessed with her and wanted to see her suffer at first... and it became addiction to watch over the girl... because his life is not fun if he didn't get revenge and always remind his past gf... that's why slowly he will falling for her...
muffincorrect. From obsession to love.
GlassHearti haven't watch this episode yet but I'm just going to say this , in my perspective minhyuk doesn't have anything to drive him to live. so to live he uses revenge against the girl, making her suffer makes him alive again.
GlassHeartsince i watched the episode I'm now pretty sure that when he saw the girl suffering when she really lost someone (he saw it with his own eyes) would mean that now she knows how he felt and now he tries to bond with her
SerraKDFanSusan, i cried a lot too...i just don't know why it really made me weep. I watched that stairway to Heaven where most people cried, it seemed didn't get me to shed my tears even a drop. I felt sad, yes, but didn't cry at all. But this one here, Oh my gosh...i couldn't stop my tears...
wooniesame here I think every second my eye tears keep flowing~~~
er why is rating of this higher than heirs?
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cookieraidererr..Because its better.
dramafanNo idea
OtakuMiaits better than the heirs, cuz the heirs seems like a rehashed version of boys before flowers, the whole uber expensive prep school where kids of chaebols study, all of a sudden a girl from a humble background gets a scholarship, the rich guy falls for the poor girl, the poor girl gets bullied from other school kids until he claims her his etc not to mention the girl gets to live like a maid in his house (which also happened in bbf for a while) i like the heirs though but I'm just saying its a bit too similar.
abbeThe Heirs...a typical idol drama! Lee Min Ho never seems to get away from his stereo type roles thus far. and Park Shin Hye's acting, as usual, is very dry. LOL.......for sure I get shoot down by their die hard fans!
daralenelamo..i dont even get it WHY on the EARTH you compare it with HEIRS??? this is an insult to this drama.... heir is just a over used theme from BOF,goong, and so many k dramas
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I've just realised that this goal to become who I am is intricately linked to my goal of changing my life. I wouldn't exactly want to change my life so that I can become more alienated from myself. And becoming who I am, my essential self, can only be about looking deep inside, getting rid of the distracting and useless mind chatter, operating more often on the level of my best self than not, and loving the contradictory, contrasting, and even contrary human mass that is me. And that is part of the tricky bit – the falling in love with self.
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We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles you don't reconcile the poles, you just recognize them."
- Orson Welles
Today I am enjoying my achievements and remembering the peace that there is in silence.
I've tended not to enjoy my achievements too much in the past, going quite rapidly from celebration to self-criticism mode, identifying ways in which what I did could be better, and generally devaluing myself. But today, I slipped into feeling good about the final product mode and managed to stay there. It feels good to feel good and to have effectively blocked out one bit of negative chatter, without actively trying at that moment. I've been working at quieting and neutralising some of the mood monsters in my head – I just may have taken a step forward.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu (c.604 – 531 B.C.)
Embrace the responsibility
It is not anyone else's job to make you happy or fulfilled. What you choose to be is what matters.
When life is not going your way, there is nothing of value to be gained by looking for someone to blame. Instead, move beyond what has already happened and get busy exploring the positive possibilities available to you.
If you experience a disappointment or even a serious setback, that is no reason to give up hope. Though life is certainly not perfect, you are completely capable of moving forward no matter what may have happened before.
Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Success will be yours when you choose to take responsibility for making it so.
Instead of obsessing over who might have hurt you or why or how, decide to get on with life. Instead of putting your energy into resentment, put that energy into creating meaningful greatness.
Your life is yours to live. Embrace the responsibility and all that goes with it, and your days will be filled with true richness.
—Ralph Marston
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship."
- George Wald
I would like to think I am a bit of both, but trying to do less on the editing side these days.
Someone gave it to me while I was in high school and it hung on my wall for years. I hadn't thought about it until reading one of $]'s posts just now. It is a good reminder for me of what is essential in life.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.
This wasn't meant to be a repository of inspirational quotes, but since I am not managing to write down in my journal the quotes that I come across that move me, I figure this is a good place for storing a few things that inspire me. At least for the time being.
Thanks again, E for passing this one on to me.
"Choose to live for, rather than against. Focus on what you love and not on any kind of hate.
Practice genuine, cleansing forgiveness, and let the burden of resentment fall softly away. Remind yourself that worry accomplishes nothing worthwhile, and give your awareness to more productive pursuits.
Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
You have so very much to live for. Look at each twist and turn in the road with a grateful heart, and you'll find real treasure in every direction.
Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for."
—Ralph Marston
Let go of your attachment to what has already happened. And make room in your life to create the very best that can be.
—Ralph Marston
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe
I didn't really mean for this goal to have a series of quotes, but there you go. Or there I go, rather. This quote is one I knew but had forgotten. Thanks 43T quote-bot.
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text: So as many of you know we went to Las Vegas for the Romance Novel Convention. While the event itself was a little off beat (lots of mix ups and late starts) we had a great time meeting new friends and getting lots of swag for you, the readers. So here is a peek at some of the awesome books we will be giving away in the coming weeks. Enjoy folks because these books are almost all signed! Plus we have a TON of swag to giveaway as well. Stay tuned.


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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
I am door girl through and through. I go wild over a wonderful front door. If you recall, last month I wrote about my front door at my little cottage in the Hollywood Hills.
Today, I am over on Domaine Home with a full story on front door decor! Please head over to see some beautiful entryways and to find some cool items to make your front door stand out!
Want to thank friends Tom Newman of Newman & Wolen and Ron van Empel of Empel Collections for sharing images of doors for the Domaine round up.
Love this door above. Very simple black door with a large black lantern. Quietly stately I think.
Are you a door girl or guy? Or is there some other part of the home you are obsessed with? Do tell.
Happy Wednesday!
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i love a good door. the one at my house now is so sad. i wish i could paint it or replace it but i'm renting.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pic above. Love the dark and light contrast!ReplyDelete
Hopefully you'll provide us with pictures of your home redo.ReplyDelete
I agree. A great door adds to much to the look of a house. I'm partial to ones with color, myself.ReplyDelete
Good door gives great looks for the home. I always like the door like you. Very nice.ReplyDelete
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Welcome to Red Fish! Upscale Dining in a Casual Atmosphere
Red Fish specializes in cuisine where an eclectic blend of seafood, steaks, fresh local fruit and vegetables are combined with Lowcountry specialties. We are committed to serving our guests the freshest ingredients possible, using home grown produce from our own Bear Island Farms. The restaurant has an extensive wine list that has won Wine Spectator's "Best of Award of Excellence." Diners may also browse the on-site retail wine shop, which boasts more than 1,000 bottles to choose from. Voted Best Wine Selection, Favorite Restaurant for Lunch, Best Burger, and Favorite Caterer by the readers of Hilton Head Monthly Magazine.
Back by popular demand...the John Brackett trio performs Wednesdays at 7:30pm!
Retail Wine Shop: Mon. - Sat. 11am - 10pm; Sun. 12pm-10pm
Lunch: Mon. - Sat. 11:30am - 2:00pm
Early Dining Specials: Nightly 5pm - 5:45pm
Dinner: Seven Nights
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In 1999 Rosewood Catering was created. After renovating a historic retail location in Flowery Branch, we relocated and opened to the public under the name of Rosewood Deli & Catering. Serving offices, wedding parties, anniversaries and others for more than 6 years, Rosewood was sold and soon closed. We are pleased to say that we have reopened Rosewood Catering. Offering very similar and popular recipes as before and adding new ones to the menu for variety. We had a great reputation and strong loyalty with customers and their offices. It's exciting to see that we have already received a very warm welcome back into the Catering Business.
This information will provide you with details that you will need to know when placing an order:
Areas we cover
Located in Hall County (Hoschton, GA) we cover all of Athens, Bogart, Gainesville, White County, Gwinnett County, Forsyth County, Northside Hospital area as well as Dawsonville. If you are not sure about your location, just give us a call and we will be more than happy to answer any questions. Please note that, with the cost of gas, certain areas will incur a small delivery fee (ranging from $15 - $25) if the order is for less than 15 people. Meals over 15 people will still be delivered for free.
Payments and invoicing
We do accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express. We will process the invoice and payment and email your receipts, or leave at the job for you. Contact us to discuss any specific questions you may have.
Candy Buffet
We are excited to offer the new "Candy Buffet". We have photo's in our photo file (and one below) to give you an idea of what we are offering. You may have an afternoon program or snack presentation and want to bring in some type of food. We can do a beautiful set up with glass apothecary jars, linens, lighting and assorted candies to match any theme. If you have a specific color related to your product, presentation or launch, we can do a complete set up based on those colors. Holidays give us a lot to work with, ie: Easter Colors, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, just to name a few. This will make your afternoon program more exciting and festive. The Candy Buffet is being offered effective March 1, 2012. To introduce you to this concept, we are offering the Candy Buffet for $50, plus the cost of candy for the first 10 orders that we receive.
We are a small catering company. With that in mind, it allows us to work with each of you individually to create the right setting for your program. For example, if you are representing a diabetes, we will make sure to use sugar free candies and snacks that you and I decide on together. We want to partner with you in representing your product well.
Rosewood Catering is focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction - we will do everything we can to meet or exceed your expectations.
Our goal is to make Rosewood your first choice when it comes to your catering needs.
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Ostensibly a love story about lower-class Mary Anning and upper class Henry De la Beche, this tale is based on the true story of Mary who may have been the most significant paleontologist of her day. To support herself and her family, she searched along the cliffs of Dover for fossils, or curiosities as they were called, to sell. While doing so, she made significant finds of dolphin-like creatures. However, most of her finds were taken over by the male scientific establishment and, as a woman, she was not even allowed to join the Geological Society of London, let alone publish any papers.
This story explores many of the fascinating issues of the early 1800s – the interaction between science and religion as scientific discoveries challenged biblical creation; the attitude towards women generally, and particularly in the scientific community; and, the division between upper and lower classes. I thoroughly enjoyed this introduction to Mary Anning and to early paleontology in Britain. Having had my curiosity piqued by this remarkable book, I am checking out Tracy Chevalier's historical fiction about Mary Anning, Remarkable Creatures, as well as a non-fiction account of her life by Shelley Emling, The Fossil Hunter.
This is the second book by Winnipeg author Joan Thomas. Her first book, Reading by Lightning, won both the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' prize for Best First Book and the amazon.ca first Novel Award.
This is much more than a love story between two people; it is the story of a woman's curiosity and her passion for scientific discovery.
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In Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? Anita Rau Badami starts off gently – a rivalry between sisters. Sharanjeet wins the suitor. To her surprise he whisks her off to Canada, land of cold and of strange customs. Still, as a resourceful woman, she transforms herself into Bibi-ji, proprietor and den mother to the many Sikhs who look for better lives in Vancouver.
Nimmo is a child survivor of the dreadful partition of the Indian sub-continent. Always poor, she eventually creates a family of her own with the loving Satpal and three well-loved children. As the outward sign of her dedication to home and family, she keeps her tiny rooms in Delhi scrupulously clean.
Tension builds ever so gradually, almost unnoticeable except in the gut. Humourous interludes disguise the turmoil of social interactions amongst disparate immigrants and with those in faraway homelands. Inevitably the new Canadians paint a veneer of prosperity to impress their families back home, yielding unforeseen consequences. And where is home? Where you live or where you once lived? Who is owed loyalty? Your neighbours or your "kind"?
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? is a history lesson for Canadians of all origins. It lulls the reader into empathy with characters who drift into or who choose undesirable actions to protect their personal identities, even while they struggle to know who they really are. Coincidentally, I was reading a biography of the Gandhi family at the same time as Badami's novel. The story and the history converged at the point of the siege at Amritsar and the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The novel carries us on to the dreadful Air India disaster, a Canadian disgrace because of the government's very slow recognition of the passengers as not Indian but Canadians who adhered to the Sikh faith.
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We've just heard that an 18-year-old Calgary author, Tamara Itani, will be launching her first novel, Marble, tomorrow!
Join this upcoming young author at Cidex Design Centre, 1301 9 Avenue SW, from 3 to 6pm and hear more.
We have Marble on order, so place your holds to get a copy when it's in.
Here's a bit about the story:
15 year old Penny Kensington is about to take a journey that will reshape her entire life. Bored out of her mind, helplessly in love with a school heatthrob, and lost to the world, Penny appears the average teenage girl. In reality, that's not anywhere near the case. Pursuing an eccentric, globe-trotting lifestyle with her grandmother and groaning pet chicken (chick actually), Penny receives a mysterious letter from her long deceased grandfather. She learns her grandfather's dying wishes are for her to safeguard a strange, bejewelled lamp. Penny wonders who would play such a cruel trick on her. (But it's no trick.) The lamp throws Penny into an unexpected, magical adventure that will have her meet some fantastical characters and propel her a decade into her future.
March is a huge month for television this year thanks to the much anticipated return of AMC's Mad Men. About to begin its fifth season, this show has got everything I love about a good TV drama – great character-driven storylines and tons of style.
If you're a fan of the show then you can probably empathize with the agony I've been going through during its 2-year hiatus, especially since the fourth season ended with such a punch to the chest. I'm not going to lie -- it's been tough to fill the Don Draper-sized void in my life, but thanks to DVDs from our collection my heart has had a bit of a reprieve. Needless to say, I'm pretty stoked about the season premiere coming up in just a few days.
So, in celebration of Mad Men's return to my PVR, I present to you a list of related reads. If you love Mad Men, then there's a strong possibility you will love these books too.
The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing - not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon an impassioned letter, signed simply "B", asking her to leave her husband. Years later, in 2003, a journalist named Ellie discovers the same enigmatic letter in a forgotten file in her newspaper's archives. She becomes obsessed by the story and hopeful that it can resurrect her faltering career. Perhaps if these lovers had a happy ending she will find one to her own complicated love life, too. Ellie's search will rewrite history and help her see the truth about her own modern romance.
The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime. In this captivating novel, bestselling author Lisa Grunwald gives us the sweeping tale of an irresistible hero and the many women who love him. From his earliest days as a "practice baby" through his adult adventures in 1960s New York City, Disney's Burbank studios, and the delirious world of the Beatles' London, Henry remains handsome, charming, universally adored-and never entirely accessible to the many women he conquers but can never entirely trust. Filled with unforgettable characters, settings, and action, The Irresistible Henry House portrays the cultural tumult of the mid-twentieth century even as it explores the inner tumult of a young man trying to transcend a damaged childhood. For it is not until Henry House comes face-to-face with the real truths of his past that he finds a chance for real love.
The Learners by Chip Kidd
Set in the early 1960s, the Learners is the story of Happy, a young graphic designer who lands his first job at a wacky advertising firm in New Haven, Connecticut. Among his colourful co-workers is Sketch, the lovable, aging illustrator whose finely-crafted drawings of potato chips are regarded by Happy as near masterpieces; Tip, the quick-witted copy-writer who's always hunting for the next snappy slogan; and Mimi, the cold, eccentric matriarch, who treats her enormous dog as if he's her husband. Happy fits right in among these likable eccentrics, and together, they struggle to hold onto their most important client, Cringle Potato Chips, and land the new and lucrative Buckle Shoes account.
That Mad Ache by Francoise Sagan
That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As Lucile explores these two versions of love, she vacillates in confusion, but in the end she must choose, and her heart's instinct is surprising and poignant. Originally published under the title La Chamade, this new translation by Douglas Hofstadter returns a forgotten classic to English.
A new novel by Louis Bayard is always an exciting prospect. In his latest, Bayard weaves factual historical information with a modern day literary thriller. There have always been rumors that a group of Elizabethan thinkers, led by Thomas Herriot, met regularly to discuss God, the world and everything else. They were called The School of Night. There is no evidence that the School actually did exist, but mentions of it in Shakespeare's plays have led to much research and speculation. Did they discover the secret of transforming lead into gold? In modern Washington DC, Henry Cavendish receives a message from his friend, Alonso Wax: "The School of Night is back in session". Wax then dies in a mysterious plunge into the Potomac. This sets Henry on a quest for a stolen letter, which may lead to the location of the treasure created by the School. He is teamed with a psychic investigator who has visions that may or may not be related to the case. The story ranges through time and place, from England at the beginning of the reign of James I to Florida in the present day. Bayard is a wonderful writer who is able to create effective historical and modern characters and scenarios. This is a great title for lovers of historical fiction and for the readers of literary thrillers such as The Club Dumas and The Dante Club.
With St. Patrick's Day approaching, if staying in with a good book or DVD is more your style than drinking green beer (or if you're between green pints and in the mood for a diversion), read on!
A compelling novel of complicated love, from one of Ireland's greatest living writers.It is the Second World War, and tragedy strikes many families in Ireland. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child and Polly, spending months at her grandparents' house by the sea, barely notices the adults' grief and their efforts to escape the tyranny of religion and family expectation. However, in time Polly too will have a secret. No one else knows the location of her beloved uncle, Sam, barely older than Polly herself, who is meant to be in Cambridge but is dreaming of Communist Cuba, while his decimated family fears losing another son. And, as Polly shyly approaches womanhood, her love for Sam turns into something more explosive.
A "New York Times"-bestselling author weaves an absorbing tale of lasting love, dangerous risk, and the healing power of redemption. Brimming with fascinating Irish history, daring intrigue, and the drama of legendary love, "The Last Storyteller" is an unforgettable novel as richly textured and inspiring as Ireland itself.
In Sheehan's spellbinding latest (after Lost Found), former lawyer Anna O'Shea becomes a time-traveling ex-wife when she returns from a vacation in Ireland and is enlisted to pick up her brother Patrick's son from jail in Newark after Patrick is severely injured in a car accident. Anna retrieves troublesome 16-year-old Joe and sets him up at her home, then wakes in the middle of the night to find him rummaging through her luggage. Joe's intrigued by a mysterious swath of cloth Anna picked up at a tourist trap, and when she tries to take it from him, the two are zapped back 164 years to prepotato famine Ireland. Sheehan vividly depicts Irish-British conflicts as Anna becomes involved with an Irish smuggler's group and falls for a rebel cartographer. Equally compelling is Joe's experience as a wrestling champ and his romance with sparky lass Taleen. Throw in loyal Irish wolfhound Madigan, and you've got an altogether enjoyable romantic adventure yarn with a heavy helping of magic.
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New York Times bestseller Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is Helen Simonson's charming debut novel, set in the Sussex village of Edgecombe St. Mary. This book is a love story between retired Major Ernest Pettigrew, a very proper 68-year-old widowed Englishman and Mrs. Jasmina Ali, a 58-year-old village shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, also widowed. The sudden death of the Major's younger brother, Bertie, sets the friendship in motion, and in spite of their differences the couple bonds over tea and their shared love of literature. However, all is not easy as the couple has to navigate difficulties caused by a shallow son, an American fiancee, a culturally bound nephew, an illegitimate child, an over-zealous group of country club ladies, an uncertain inheritance, and old-fashioned opinions toward foreigners. Can Major Pettigrew and Mrs. Ali's relationship withstand the attitudes of their self-centered family members and the expectations of their socialite neighbors, or will they abandon their second chance at love? This book will appeal to those who enjoyed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and is the perfect read to go along with a comfy chair and a cup of tea.
(Also available at the Calgary Public Library as a Book CD and an e-book, and as part of the Book Club Bag collection.)
So I've been on this pretty major dystopian fiction kick. It's an on-going theme – storylines beginning in the not too distant future when the environment has crumbled under the weight of humankind, the government has become a totalitarian regime and the protagonists are hell-bent on revolution. My recent obsession started with The Hunger Games, a wildly popular trilogy by YA author Suzanne Collins that's presently being developed into a series of huge blockbuster films. I devoured (ha, ha) the books in a matter of days and became so invested in the characters' fight for survival that I felt a little lost when the story ended. Immediately, I began scavenging for more books within the genre and found America Pacifica, the debut novel from author Anna North.
America Pacifica is one of many in a genre of dystopian futures. In this book, North introduces us to Darcy, a young woman who lives in the grim replica of North America located on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean called "America Pacifica". Overcrowded and divided by the unequal distribution of wealth, the island is dissolving into the sea from toxic pollution and on the verge of civil war. Our heroine, Darcy, works as a cook and nurse's aide at World Experiences, a retirement residence for the island's first inhabitants, and is completely ambivalent to the problems of the island. That is, until her mother disappears and Darcy's safe and private world is thrown into a tailspin.
The novel follows Darcy's desperate search for her mother through the island's most troubled districts where she is acutely suspicious of everyone she meets. The small world she had come to know as a child dangerously expands to include mute nuns with talking parrots, circus folk with missing limbs, bug-eyed solvent addicts and rich kids with too much free time. There are very few acts of kindness in this world and Darcy quickly learns that everything comes at a severe emotional, financial and physical cost. As the secrets of her mother's past and disappearance come to light, Darcy finds herself the unwitting heroine of a revolution set to overturn everything she has ever known.
Like The Hunger Games, this book shares a similar character-driven storyline set in a future not terribly far off from our own, where the struggle for freedom is a matter of life or death and survival tests our most vulnerable of human virtues. America Pacifica is a fast-paced and a very quick read, and if you can forgive the author's often long-winded use of dialogue, this novel is a great compliment to other dystopian reads. While some readers may think the genre a bit morbid, I've always appreciated the perspective it gives to our current political, social and environmental climate. If things are bad now, how much worse could it get? While America Pacifica does take a fantastical approach to the imagined fate of North America, at its core I found myself relating to Darcy and her plight, contemplating how I would respond in similar situations. Would I run or would I stay and fight?
I would recommend this book to anyone fascinated by the end of the world. If you enjoyed similar titles such as The Hunger Games, A Handmaid's Tale or 1984, you'll definitely quench your dystopian appetite with America Pacifica.
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I love Irish writers. They have an innate sense of story that comes through even when the story is not told in typical narrative style. This is a strength of Joseph O'Connor's Ghost Light. Ostensibly, this is the story of a promising actress in the days of the Irish Literary Revival. She worked alongside her much more accomplished sister in the Abbey Theatre and fell in love with the playwright J.M. Synge. Ghost Light tells their story. But the story does not follow a standard narrative arc. Rather, it begins with the actress, Molly Allgood, alcoholic and broken-down; collecting empties for her daily shot, charming the publicans with her (as she believes) undiminished beauty and grace. The ghost light of the title is both the stage light left burning in the theatre and the memory she carries of her affair with the odd and emotionally distant Synge. As she tells her story, the action moves between the golden days of their love affair and the dark and shabby life Molly leads after John's death. How much of Molly's life is real and how much imagined, is left up to the reader – Molly is not particularly reliable when retelling her story, but her wit is keen and her language evocative. The emotions she evinces are true and the descriptions of the bright season of their love is lush and lovely, populated with the great characters of the Irish theatre such as W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. Molly is a winning character and the story she tells is both beautiful and heartbreaking.
"When I immigrated to the US," Ruyian Xu, the author of The Lost and Forgotten languages of Shanghai reveals, "I was ten years old and did not speak any English… Eight years later, when I returned to China… English had become the only language I was fluent in. I could no longer read or write in Chinese, and I was afraid of saying the wrong thing or not being understood all over again. Those experiences made me interested in how absence in a language can isolate people and inspired me to write this novel…"
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai is a story of Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, who suddenly, as a consequence of an explosion that shattered the building where he was dining, losses his ability to speak his native language, Chinese. The only words than emerge from his mouth are the English phrases he learned as a child growing up in Virginia.
He finds himself unable to communicate with his son and wife, whom he once courted with beautiful words. He turns to Rosalyn Neil, an American neurologist, and two of them soon develop a relationship that his wife doesn't need a translator to understand …


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10. He loves coffee flavored yogurt.
9. His best friend is a cat burglar.
8. He wants to sew your grandma's mouth shut.
7. He runs the bath for terrorists so it will be ready when they get home.
6. He wants to eat everyone's pets.
5. His face actually belongs to someone else and he used Face/Off technology to steal it.
4. Michelle Obama hates the American smell of fresh laundry.
3. His favorite song is "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Wiser.
2. He wants to give our money to one of those "homeless" crusty punks who doesn't seem like he/she is actually homeless.
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So that's 20 reasons now. (Via GotchaMedia.)
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The number 1 reason not to vote for Barack Obama is the same as the number 1 reason not to vote for Mitt Romney: You're 6 years old.
You know, I hate to be debbie downer, but I'm not convinced that this child's qualifications as a political analyst are entirely legit.
Number 1 reason I hate this video: This kid's parents are clearly assholes.
also, the image of a 6 year-old with a gun is actually a decent argument FOR gun control of some sort.
6-Year-Old Boy Will Give You "10 Reasons NOT to vote for Barack Obama" on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0jhoWhqI8&feature=plcp
I'm not voting for Obama because he's too nice to give this kid the wedgie he CLEARLY deserves.
what bad people does obama let into the country little racist shit? or are you just referring to immigrants as "bad people?" if i had my chancla i would throw it at this kid.
Xenophobic! Not necessarily racist! There's a difference!
6-Year-Old Boy Will Give You "10 Reasons NOT to vote for Barack Obama" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0jhoWhqI8&feature=plcp
Aren't babies pretty much burdens by definition? Not that we should get rid of babies or that people don't love their babies, but they are definitely a burden.
Ugh, your friend sounds dumb. I bet they share this video on facebook.
The Democrats do that kind of selective editing too, it's just that Republicans are way better at it.
In your friend's defense, MARY WAS A VERY YOUNG TEENAGER so… JESUS.
And if you don't think explaining to your husband that you're still a virgin even though you're pregnant isn't a burden…
I KNOW it's not his fault at this point in his life and he'll figure it out when he grows up (or won't and then it WILL be his fault,) but smug little kids make me so angry.
Don't let the government control your audio levels!
"In five years we'll all either be working for him… or be dead by his hand." – Jack Donaghy
You could have blown me over with a feather when I realized the kids' dad drove a 4X4, WHAT WERE THE ODDS???
that's Sixpence None The RICHER, you history's greatest monster!
Expect to see this child on Fox & Friends within the week.
How would you tell the difference?
Number six? Don't even get me started on number six…
I'm really happy this kid is pro-mining for oil and coal. As someone who is staring down a very real probability that mined coal will be transported through my community six times a day in proposed open-air rail cars — that even our power company is contesting — so that mining conglomerates in Montana can find a market in China (because all of this is getting shipped to China), assholes like this piss me off to no extent.
PGE's concerns about coal dust and air quality are echoed by residents along train routes from Montana and Wyoming's Powder River Basin mines to the ports. For the Kinder Morgan project, trains would run through the Columbia River Gorge and north Portland before heading on tracks paralleling U.S. 30 up to Port Westward.
The $150 million to $200 million project would provide 80 full-time jobs and $3.7 million a year in property taxes, Kinder Morgan says. Port officials say discussions have focused on exporting 15 million tons of coal a year in a first phase, with potential for another 15 million tons in a second phase.
So it will take 60 years for this project to even pay for itself, only 80 jobs will be created and the INSANE amount of air pollution caused to residents (including me and my dog) isn't even factored in consideration? GREAT IDEA. I guess the good news is that it isn't a sure thing yet, and protesting will still actually make a difference???
Fuck these people. Fuck these anti-clean-air-initiative people and their idiotic children who will actually live to see their asshole parents' actions' consequences.
Here is the link to the Facebook group if anyone wants to read more (the info is super creepy in that you have to seek it out to get real stuff, but here is the main anti-shipping-coal-through-my-hood group): http://www.facebook.com/NorthPortlandCoalCommittee
Here is another group that seems pretty active and hopefully useful: http://www.gorgefriends.org/section.php?id=79
I really don't want to get black lung, you guys. I really don't. (Plus the impact on the water, fishing, tourism, agriculture, etc. is so far beyond what the revenue would be that it doesn't even make sense economically.)
I'm currently fighting a proposed pipeline of crude bitumen from my province, through some of last untouched temperate rainforests in Canada, to the rocky coast of BC, so that it can be shipped in tankers to China so they can refine it (breaking the tanker exclusion zone that has been in place since 1988).
Bonus fun fact: The pipeline would be built and run by Enbridge!
So: I feel ya.
They just had an oil spill in Wisconsin this weekend!! http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/business/after-wisconsin-oil-spill-enbridge-plans-pipeline-repairs.html
I can't wait for the director's cut of this to surface where reason #1 is 'He's Black'
xaa | Posted on Jul 30th, 2012 +22
Is "he's black" really any different than the actual number one, that "no one knows where he's from"? Thinly veiled racism is still racism.
It must be fun being conservative. If you can't find any real reasons to dislike Obama, all you have to do is pretend he did a bunch of stuff he never did, and hate him for that. Party on, assholes!
He takes money from people who work hard and gives it to people who don't work at all? OBAMA IS THE TOOTH FAIRY!
Republican's keep mixing up when something is "so obvious even a child could see it" and when it's "so stupid only a child would believe it."
ugh, i can't wait until obama wins re-election and he finally makes good on his promise to round up all these patriot folks into concentration camps so i can finally get some peace of mind.
I'm looking forward to the mandatory gay marriages for all!
xaa | Posted on Jul 30th, 2012 +12
Obama just sent me a letter telling me I had to marry a baby. A GAY baby.
I already filed an extension on that. Form DP77 — I get extra six months to kill my kidneys a little more so it's cheaper for them to just let me ride it out.
If I have a lazy or drunken year, I'll just go on foodstamps. According to Obamacare Section 112, Paragraph 99, the Death Panel has to make sure you live if you're on foodstamps.
You can't get alcohol with foodstamps. You'll have to grow medical marijuana for children and use that cash to pay for your booze. Didn't you read the fine print in subsection M, clause 420.2 amendment B12?
What is #8?! He thinks babies are perverted?
Well if a six-year-old says so, I probably shouldn't vote for Obama. I mean, six years of learned wisdom is hard to argue with.
He has to be elected because otherwise this nation will prove that once you go black you can go back. And that's just not realistic!
I wonder how he feels about Kid President.
This kid is going to grow up so gay. I'm calling it – holla at your boy in at least 12 years, you little dish you.
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I was on the fence about abortion, but…. uh… yeah. Seeing this kid I think maybe it's not the worst idea.
heh… his parent's messed him up real good.
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I agree with you, except for one thing. It was not one man who gave himself that authority. The whole of our government gave him that authority. They wrote the laws explicitly granting it to him, over the cries of dissension from the people. It is not one man who seeks power over us, it is all those who have come to power within the government, bought and paid for by the corporations.
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TABLE 9-6 Recent and Ongoing End-of-Life Medical Education Projects
Name, Funding Source, Duration
Description and Aims
Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Program
Five to eight two-year fellowships of up to $70,000 per year are made to institutions on behalf of the Scholars Program. Fellowship funds are used to support the scholar's salary and benefits and to provide up to $5,000 in travel funds for national meetings, research assistance, summer stipends, and other costs related to work on the scholar's project. Each scholar carries out a significant project that addresses a critical issue in the care of the dying in his or her own institution or community.
RWJF Funded or Supported Projects
The EPEC Project—Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC)
Funding with AMA 2/1/97–5/31/00 $1,541,943 from RWJF
Designed to teach practicing physicians "the essential clinical competencies required to provide quality end-of-life care" (AMA, 2000). The focus of EPEC is a curriculum to be presented to groups by individuals who have been trained specifically in the course. In 1999, six regional workshops were held, at which 500 physician-educators were trained in running the program. Videotapes and printed material, in addition to didactic and interactive sessions, are used. The format consists of four 30-minute plenary modules and twelve 45-minute workshop modules.
Harvard Medical School Palliative Care Education Center
7/1/98–6/30/03 $997,873 from RWJF
Center for training faculty from around the country in palliative and end-of-life care
Stanford University Medical School Faculty Development Program
10/1/98–9/30/02 $831,931
Train-the-trainer program for medical faculty from across the country
New York State Medical School Curricula Project in Palliative Care
3/15/99–9/14/00 $268,792
Developing a consensus on core curriculum for all medical schools in the state that schools will begin to incorporate into their programs. A "report card" on implementation will be completed for each school at the end of the project.


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Peace Corps Mourns the Loss of Trainee Paul Blum in Zambia
Washington, D.C., September 10, 2012 – Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams is saddened to confirm the passing of Peace Corps trainee Paul Blum on September 8, 2012. Paul, 65, was training for Peace Corps service in Zambia. He was to be sworn in as a Peace Corps volunteer on October 5.
"The entire Peace Corps community mourns the loss of such a committed trainee whose wealth of experience in the medical and teaching fields was a great asset to the Peace Corps mission," said Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams (returned Peace Corps volunteer, Dominican Republic, 1967-1970). "Our thoughts are with Paul's family, friends and community, both at home and in Zambia."
Paul was preparing to serve as a community health Volunteer. During a successful professional life of more than 40 years that included working as a researcher, teacher, administrator and consultant, Paul acquired the skills and a strong desire to make a difference as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Having taught at Columbia University and Jefferson Medical College, Paul was preparing to train community health workers. Of primary importance to Paul was understanding the Zambian culture and in turn providing an understanding of the U.S. to the people in his host country and community.
Paul, a native of Cambridge, Mass., arrived in Zambia in July 2012 and was participating in the three-month pre-service training through which every Peace Corps volunteer prepares for service. Prior to serving with the Peace Corps, he had worked as a volunteer for a substance abuse recovery program and as a pharmaceutical consultant.
Paul held a doctorate in physiology/neurophysiology from the University of Vermont. He is survived by daughter Lori Reine, son-in-law Richard Reine, granddaughters Claudia and Alicia Reine, brother David Blum and his devoted companion of 14 years, Betsy Caney.


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Sigur Rós's Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, in which the majestic Icelandic band recruits different directors to make short films out of all the songs on their new album, marches on. The latest entry, for "Seraph," may be the most fully realized yet, despite its complete lack of Shia LaBeouf. This one is a cartoon about religiously motivated body horror, following a boy whose parentally-implanted fear of nudity causes him to carve eyeballs into his skin and make other questionable decisions. Dash Shaw directs, co-writing it with Hedwig And The Angry Inch creator John Cameron Mitchell. NSFW-ish for copious amounts of chaste cartoon nudity. Watch it below.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- This week marks the two-year anniversary of the Chevrolet Volt commencing production. It is also one year before it is believed that the next generation Volt -- the 2.0 -- will start production.
The purpose of this article is to speculate about what we can expect from Chevrolet Volt 2.0.
Let's first establish some facts about the Chevrolet Volt to date. The first production run from November 2010 until June 2011 was around 4,000 units. That was version 1.0.
Then came Volt 1.1, which was made from July to December, 2011. It added a more advanced door lock system, and rejumbled some buttons on the dashboard.Volt 1.2 entered production in February 2012 and added compliance with California's carpool lane privileges. It was with this release that sales increased from a few hundred units per month, to around 2,000 per month -- in the US. Production of Volt 1.3 started in June 2012 and had a variety of improvements, from interior and exterior cosmetics, to more importantly improved all-electric range -- up from 35 miles to 38. Once these cars hit dealerships, sales grew to around 3,000 per month -- in the US. The current U.S. sales rate is now 36,000 per year, but to get the total number you would have to add sales in Europe, Canada and Australia as well. The problem is that these numbers are not yet easily obtainable, but vague indications are that sales in those geographies combined are not yet exceeding 2,000 per month. So the global sales number is currently not exceeding the 60,000 per year rate, which was GM's goal for 2012. GM reports that as of today, all Volts sold have been driven a total of over 157 million miles. Overall reliability appears to have been among the best of any car on the road to date. The development of the Volt 1.0 started in 2006 and was essentially completed in most vital aspects by the time the production version of car was shown to the public in September 2008. The work on Volt 2.0 started taking shape in 2010. By now -- November 2012 -- the car is fully baked, undergoing the kind of durability testing that will ensure customers who buy a 2014 Volt can drive it reliably for millions of miles over more than a century to come.
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They say ''Write what you know,'' so Kenny Chesney's co-written a batch of songs focused on his preoccupation with sailing the Caribbean; it's a slightly more commercial sequel to 2005's similarly mellow and nautical Be as You Are. Lucky Old Sun feels encouragingly personal for Chesney particularly ''Way Down Here,'' written in the wake of his 2005 divorce, which sadly advocates a retreat to seafaring as an escape
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After 35 years of studying health and nutrition for herself, family and friends in an informal manner, public speaking, and leading bible studies she realized that all roads led to becoming a Health Coach. Currently a student at the Institute For Integrative Nutrition, she coaches clients 1:1, leads women's wellness workshops and holds retreats.
Women are in crisis right now. They are tired of fatigue, the increase of auto-immune diseases, diabetes, obesity, and the risks being handed down to their children. For the first time in history, parents are expected to outlive their children. Sorting through the latest studies in health and nutrition, which is often conflicting, is a full time job. Due to the stressors of everyday life, the increasing complexities of raising children today, and caring for loved ones who are part of the aging baby boomer population; women crave balance and peace like never before. They have to be reminded to breathe. So often their lives feel out of control and they wonder…."Is this how I was meant to live?"
Cynthia's upcoming book, The Holistic Christian Woman addresses all of these areas. It helps women address their health goals and take charge of their family's health by understanding how their bodies work in conjunction with the heart, mind and soul.
There are many books, lectures, workshops and retreats out there for secular women that are tempting. They typically include yoga, meditation, and tools that other belief systems use in their spiritual practices. They tend to lead away from God and focus on the Self. Christian women either abstain from these, or more often than not, think that they can participate and filter out what they don't believe, or what isn't Christian, believing that they will recognize it when they see it.
Cynthia believes that Christian women should be able to experience guidance on holistic health with their focus on the one and only God. Not allowing other spiritual practices to corner the "Holistic" market as their own innovation. Not referring to a "Higher Power" or "The Universe", but GOD. The Trinity, One in Essence and Undivided. If our spirituality is the central focus of who we are holistically, it shouldn't be watered down.
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I want this
man,Dr. Ron Paul, to be the president of the United States.
Believe me,
I'm not the type to go from one so-called leader to another pinning
all my hopes on their greatness like some Deaniac. I don't like
politicians. I didn't like Ann Richards. I don't like Bush Jr. I
didn't like Ronald Reagan, I don't like Bush's dad and I don't like
Bill Clinton. I don't like Dick Gephardt, Tom Daschle, Trent Lott,
Newt Gingrich, Nancy what's-her-name, John D. Rockefeller IV or
bitch-ass Harry Reid. I can't stand any of the presidential
candidates. Politicians are scum. All of them. Nothing but a band
of highway robbers, the lot of 'em. Liars! Warmongers! Jailers!
Bastards! Two wings of one bird of prey! Not a dime's worth of difference!
Except Ron
For more than
10 years I have had one and only one reason to have hope for the
possibility that the course our government is on could be turned
around short of ruin; one congressman out of 535 who represented
me. One politician I could refer to and say, u201Cgo read his u2018A
Republic, If You Can Keep It,' and you'll see what I mean,u201D
and know that there was a damn good chance whoever-it-was really
would understand by the time they were done.
Not only is
he right about 95% percent of the time, Ron Paul is a kind, decent
and principled individual and individualist. Read his position on
natural rights here,
for example.
Paul ought to have his own Ph.D. in Austrian economics, the school
of peace, little-to-no government and free trade. He's a medical
doctor, not a lawyer. The lobbyists don't even bother to knock on
his office door since they know he'll smile and nod and then vote
u201Cnou201D on their project anyway. He refused government welfare for
his kids to go to college, he delivered babies for free or on a
sliding-scale type of payment plan rather than accept Medicare and
Medicaid, he is refusing his congressional pension and he returns
a substantial portion of his office budget back to the treasury
at the end of every term (or fiscal year or however they do it).
He's never voted himself a pay raise (not even through the modern
technicality of u201Cautomaticu201D cost-of-living increases), and has never
— never — voted to raise taxes.
They call him
u201CDr. Nou201D because 95% of what the national government does is unconstitutional
and he votes according to his oath — which often leaves him all
by himself. A committed non-interventionist, he predicted the fall
of the USSR if the U.S. would only stop propping them up. He opposed
the first Iraq war in 1990/91 and the second Iraq war since 1998.
When first coming back to Congress in 1997, he spoke against the
overseas bases being used to stage the endless attacks on Iraq which
provided the motive for those responsible for the attacks of September
Paul has opposed
every Federal gun control bill that has ever come his way, along
with the PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Transportation
Security Administration Act, the Homeland Security Act and just
about anything else you could think of.
A fierce defender
of America's independence — and that of every other country
— Paul opposes NAFTA, CAFTA, the WTO, IMF, World Bank, UN and NATO.
He's against central banking — recognizing it as the cause of, not
solution to, the business cycle and a destroyer of savings. He proposes
to let Americans circulate their own gold-backed currencies, repealing
the taxes and restrictions which now forbid it. He wants to use
his bully pulpit to encourage the Congress and the several states
to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, abolish the personal income tax
and to end, once and for all, the depredations of the sinister IRS.
When they ask
him about his heroes, he answers Gandhi and MLK. They resisted the
state non-violently, and that's important, Paul says.
Rep. Ron Paul
M.D. is, as far as I can tell, the greatest congressman in American
History — the last of the Jeffersonians — and that doesn't mean
he's flawless. He's just a regular, humble old guy. That's part
of why I like him so much. He sometimes stumbles around and starts
his sentences over again the same way I do when I'm trying to explain
something right. A lot of times he speaks in a sort of shorthand
that just leaves it to the audience to try to figure out what the
hell he means. He's not like one of those Mitt Romney/Rick Perry–type
polyurethane politicians. In fact, lately I've seen him do a pretty
funny politician impression in a couple of interviews.
if rarely, I disagree with how he votes in the House and there have
been a few mistakes in his campaign, including, as has been pointed
out — with some undo hysteria, it seems to me — some pretty lousy
TV spots, particularly the one about one of the issues I most strongly
disagree with him on: immigration.
Well, good.
It's nice to have something to criticize the man about for a change.
(As far as
the smears about Dr. Paul being some sort of mean bigoted type,
I think it is quite obvious with a moment on YouTube that it
simply cannot be true; that he just doesn't have the temperament
to be a hater. The angriest I've seen him in all these clips has
come out in statements like u201C…and you jolly-well better
realize it,u201D u201C…that can sometimes be pretty annoying,u201D and u201CI mean,
what the devil?u201D Sorry, the champion of individual liberty for all
is not a meanie, a racist or oppressor. I'm afraid the smear artists
will have to stick to arguing against his policies, which can be
quite difficult, I know.)
Ron Paul is
no knight on a white horse, but a just regular man running for Napoleon's
job — as it already exists — in order to turn it back into the presidency
as described in Article II of the Constitution. This mission of
Paul's, running for President and against the presidency,
is something that any defender of liberty must value in this current
age of executive kidnapping, u201Cghost prisons,u201D torture, aggressive
war, widespread wiretapping, trillion-dollar military budgets, the
u201Cunitary executiveu201D doctrine, signing statements and the doctrine
of the u201Cplenaryu201D powers of the commander in chief of the armed forces
in undeclared wartime.
Face it, America
has gotten this entire post–Cold War/Beginning of the 21st
Century thing off to a real bad start. The peace dividend is blown,
the population of most of the world now puts our government in the
same category as the old Soviet empire or worse, the budget is blown,
the dollar is worth less all the time and our liberties are under
more threat from the government than they've been in a long time.
The candidacy
of Ron Paul is the best hope to get America back on track. This
is particularly true in regards to our government's relationship
with other states in the world, protection of individual rights
here at home and in terms of preserving our republican form of government;
the checks and balances and separations of power defined in our
Constitution and its Bill of Rights (restrictions)
which are meant to protect us from the kind of tyranny overthrown
by the generation of 1776.
These are principles
which, at this point, federalists and antifederalists, liberals,
conservatives, right-wingers, leftists, communists, rednecks, boys
and girls, employers and employees, country and rock-n-roll and
individuals of all ethnic backgrounds, religions and descriptions
in America ought to be able to agree on. They are the principles
that make this America in the first place.
The message
of individual liberty unites us. Isn't it cool how that works?
To the
Right: Paul wants to get at the actual threat. What he opposes
is all this empire
building, foreign "aid" and the backing of other
people's dictators. The former chief of the CIA's bin Laden Unit
says Paul's policy is the best for solving the Osama problem. Quite
a few others agree. See here
and here.
What other problem do you have? Paul represents what you claim to
believe in — at least he agrees with you about what government ought
to stop doing to people, if not all the things you want government
to do to people. Seems like a reasonable compromise to
me. And none of the other GOP candidates even come close.
To the
Left: Many of you object that Ron Paul wants to set the corporations
free along with the rest of us, which to you seems a terrible mistake.
Here's what
you're missing: The entire project that is the national government
of the United States is to take money from us working folks and
give it to the people who are already rich. I know this is hard
to accept after a lifetime of beltway "libertarians"
complaining in your ear about the transfer payments the other way
around, but no, really.
It's the bazillionaires
who benefit the most from big government. It is their escape from
the risks of the market. You want those greedy corporate bastards
to have to shape up or go out of business don't you? You have to
set them free — to face the wrath of the sharp competitor and the
fed-up consumer. No more welfare for Lockheed. No more welfare for
Archer-Daniels Midland. No more welfare for Halliburton. No more
welfare for Goldman-Sachs or Citigroup. No more welfare for Wal-Mart.
No more welfare for Exxon. No subsidies. No bailouts. Get it? This
is Austrian economics. Please don't mix u2018em up with the right-socialist/demand-side-for-the-rich
Chicago monetarist school.
Also, no matter
what they may have told you, Ron is running to rein in the empire
and reinstate the Bill of Rights, not to abolish the welfare state
for social security and Medicare recipients. In fact, he offers
the only real plan to shore those programs up, bring the military
home from overseas, save the dollar and guarantee that for the people
who have been made to pay in their whole lives, they not only get
their checks, but they get them in dollars whose value is not being
inflated away day by day.
Ron Paul is
the only credible candidate who means to end the Iraq and Afghan
occupations and bring our military home from their 750+ overseas
bases. Isn't that what you want?
To the
anarchists: I personally would very much like to see major
portions of Article 1, Section 8 removed, followed by a return to
the Articles of Confederation, secession and eventually a private
property, individual liberty–based anarchy in the world, but
there should be no doubt that reinstating the Constitution as the
law of the land would be a great step toward that wonderful no-government
future. A Paul presidency is not likely to justify or legitimize
the state, but instead will prove just how little we need it. And
what's the alternative, wait for the empire to crash all around
So far, the
Ron Paul campaign for the presidency has gone far, far better than
I could have imagined when I first heard he was running. It turns
out that just because he is one of a kind in terms of politicians,
it didn't mean there weren't millions of us who believe in the same
things — enough of us to compete with the financial totals of the
War Party players. Many on board this Revolution have been little
l libertarians all their lives and just needed someone to
explain it to them out loud. If Paul gets the nomination, I think
he'll have no trouble beating Obama or Clinton in the fall and as
president will be able to refuse to do a great many things. It would
be cause for beer drinking, barbecues, fireworks and celebrations
across the land.
If he doesn't,
then whether he goes back to the House, makes an independent run,
both or however it shakes out, no one really knows. But America,
as local Meetup organizer Paul Davis pointed out in his speech at
the Austin, Texas Tea Party of 2007, has already been changed forever
by this movement of regular Americans stepping up to restore the
rule of law to this country, to prevent any further descent of our
society into this brave old world of mercantilism, perpetual war,
and the expansion of executive power into every aspect of our lives
— and even to make some major reversals before the worst consequences
of empire come due. It's the fruition of the classical liberal
revival so many libertarians have worked so hard to build over the
years. Perhaps it is even the beginning of a permanent new realignment
in America. Peace and Freedom are a big deal again.
Already the
other congressmen are asking Paul how to get people to like them
(and give them money) too. The message is loud and clear: start
with following the example of Ron Paul's dedication to liberty.
Maybe Garet
Garrett was wrong. Maybe it's not too late to restore the republic.
3, 2008
Scott Horton
[send him mail] is assistant
editor at Antiwar.com, hosts Antiwar Radio in Austin, Texas and
runs the blog Stress.