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Once America's Leading Hate Group, the Neo-Nazi National Alliance Now Considered 'a Joke'
Last year, a balding, 46-year-old man slipped quietly into the men's rooms of three Orlando, Fla., area biker bars, where he warily pasted "Bring Our Troops Home" stickers on washroom mirrors. From there, his secret mission took him to an upscale Irish pub and a seafood restaurant, where he again made his way to the men's rooms and pasted up that sticker and another, "Stop Immigration!"
A few days later, Wendell Duke Witten detailed his daring exploits to fellow members of the neo-Nazi group he'd joined seven months earlier, and on whose behalf he had been propagandizing. "I will check [the stickers] in a week to see how many are still where I placed them," he earnestly assured his comrades.
Welcome to the new National Alliance, once America's leading hate group. Ten years after the death of founder William Pierce — a former university physics professor and radical intellectual with a major following both here and in Europe — the Alliance has been transformed from the nation's radical-right powerhouse into a tiny band of small-time propagandists, criminal thugs and attention-seeking losers. Recruitment and income are dismal, and the group rarely makes the news. Its leader, fresh from a withering divorce from his stripper wife, is widely disrespected by his followers and does not even live at the group's West Virginia headquarters.
And the revolutionary activities of the Alliance, which seeks to build a fascist state peopled solely by whites, have been reduced to a few bathroom stickers.
Not that the group isn't dangerous. In the last decade, the organization that once prided itself on the quality of its members has been distinguished by the pure thuggery of its people. Since Pierce's death, four Alliance recruits have been convicted or accused of having carried out at least a dozen murders. And that's not all. Even many more humdrum members are distinguished by their criminality.
Take Wendell Witten, who battles for the Aryan race with stickers pasted in the men's rooms of seedy bars and chain restaurants. Witten, who goes by the name Edmond W. Duke on the Alliance's Resistance Web forum, is a registered Florida sex offender with convictions for aggravated assault and sexual battery that go back more than 20 years. His many tattoos include one that reads, "No Mercy."
Ten years ago, the Alliance had 1,400 carefully selected and clean-cut members, a paid national staff of 17, and great respect in radical-right circles in America and abroad. Its publications, including a newsletter and a journal, set the standard on the extreme right, and its leaders regularly met with their counterparts in Europe. In Florida, it bought radio time and billboard ads. Between dues and income from its white-power music label, it was bringing in almost $1 million a year.
Today, the National Alliance is widely viewed as a joke.
"It's a shame watching yet another organization collapse," one poster lamented in a long thread about the group on the racist Stormfront Web forum this March. "There are hundreds of White 'Nationalist' organizations in the US — [but] not one is taken more serious[ly] than a street gang in LA. And most not even that serious[ly]. … Even the lowly negroid eclipses our best attempt at organization."
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Not long after the July 23, 2002, death of founder William Pierce, the Intelligence Report published excerpts from Pierce's last speech, given on April 20 of that year. In his talk at one of the Alliance's "leadership conferences," Pierce mocked the white power movement, saying there was no such thing, and denigrated members of other neo-Nazi groups as "hobbyists, freaks and weaklings."
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ALBUM REVIEW: Patterson Hood
Patterson Hood described Drive-By Truckers' acclaimed 2003 album Decoration Day as "an album about choices, good and bad, right and wrong, and the consequences of those choices." His latest solo venture, Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance, is replete with the sort of ruminations and introspection fans have come to expect, but nearly ten years since Decoration Day, Hood—who's weathered divorce, remarriage, children, and a tumultuous twelve years fronting DBT—has clearly matured.
The most marked change in the album is the semi-autobiographical bent of its stories and characters. Known for his vivid depictions of Southern tropes—from incest to murder to clannish communities and familial ties—Hood shifts his focus to his own life. The two most pronounced periods he depicts are 1) the early '90s, before his great successes as an artist, in which he was a man made abject by divorce and despair, and 2) the present day, in which he puts things into perspective.
This is by far the most personal music we've ever heard from Hood, and these narratives bring out a more soulful sonic feeling. Don't expect too many heavy-hitting Southern rock tunes here. This album's more "The Deeper In" than "Sink Hole." Some of the stories and scenes are almost literary in tone—Hood recalls hayrides of his childhood, youth-group lock-ins, rare Southern snowfalls, adultery, escape. He even delves farther back in time, somewhat dispelling the clichés that belie his grandfather's generation in "Depression Era."
The album is neither entirely autobiographic nor an individual effort, though. "Come Back Little Star" was a collaboration with Kelly Hogan, who wrote the song's lyrics (in memory of Vic Chesnutt) and lends pretty harmonies. Other contributors to the album include DBT band mates Mike Cooley, Jay Gonzalez, Brad Morgan, and John Neff, as well as members of Centro-matic from Athens and his father, David Hood. As Hood's third solo album, it's his best yet.

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THE GROUP fighting to save Redditch Youth House has been refused permission to take on a three-month lease of the building.
Redditch Youth and Community Enterprise applied to Worcestershire County Council for a Meanwhile Lease to allow them to run the building from January to March next year while it puts together a business case to takeover the site permanently.
The Meanwhile Project is a Government scheme aimed at reducing the number of empty buildings while allowing small charities and community groups or social enterprises to make use of low cost spaces to promote their aims.
Councillors Greg Chance and Debbie Taylor, which represent the area the Youth House is based in on Redditch Borough Council, said they were concerned the doors of the centre could be shut at the coldest time of year while 'the bureaucrats shuffle paper'.
"If there are people willing to run the centre and people who need and want to use it why can't the county council join the dots and keep the venue open while RYCE put together a business plan, after all it will probably cost a lot of money to keep it boarded up.
"Come on county, don't be Scrooges, don't board up the Youth House and leave Redditch young people out in the cold.
"As central ward councillors we feel our ward is again taking the brunt of the cuts. The Redi Centre closed and now the Youth House is about to be boarded up, are we really all in this together?"
Coun David Thain, responsible for transformation and change on the county council, said the proposal to enter in to a short-term lease would lead to building management, health and safety and insurance issues.
"The county council is also in the process of entering in to contract to commission positive activities with a local provider and is keen not to do anything that may, or may be perceived to, prejudice their business plan.
"With the county council's assistance Barnardo's, who used the centre three Tuesdays a month, has relocated to the Arrowvale Youth Centre. The county council has endeavoured to support other groups during their transition period and will continue to do so."
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Installing Python 2.6 from source on Ubuntu Hardy
Python 2.6 was released yesterday! This version aims to smooth the transition from Python 2.5 to Python 3.0 which is planned for release soon (currently available as a release candidate). Python 3.0 will be break backwards compatibility with the 2.x series. Python 2.6 is backwards compatible with 2.5. All the backwards compatible features of 3.0 have been backported to 2.6.
One of the new 2.6 features I'm particularly intersted in is
the new
multiprocessing module which has a similar interface to
threading module, but it uses processes instead of threads.
This avoids the limitations imposed by the Global Interpreter Lock
in a multi-threaded Python program. Yet it still has the nice
communications and management features like
Pools, etc. I didn't plan to
focus so much on the multiprocessing module in this post-- I just want
to document my install notes on Ubuntu Linux. For all the new features
in 2.6 see What's
New in Python 2.6. (It is a long list).
- Download the Python 2.6 compressed source tarball
$ cd incoming $ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/Python-2.6.tgz
- Unpack
$ tar zxvf Python-2.6.tgz
- Read the README at
- Install prerequisites (Disclaimer: I know nothing about libraries,
packages, dependencies, etc. This is what I did-- I am not sure
if I grabbed the correct prerequisites or not.)
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential $ sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev $ sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev $ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev $ sudo apt-get install libgdbm-dev $ sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev $ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev $ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev $ sudo apt-get install tk-dev
- Configure. I am installing to
$ cd Python-2.6 $ ./configure --prefix=/home/sofeng/lib/python2.6
- Make
$ makeNote I got the following message:
Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: bsddb185 sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.I was not able to find the Ubuntu packages for these.
- Try it out (Optional)
$ ./python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Oct 2 2008, 15:32:46) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>
- Test (Optional)
$ make testI got the following status:
327 tests OK. 33 tests skipped: test_aepack test_al test_applesingle test_bsddb185 test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_curses test_gl test_imgfile test_kqueue test_linuxaudiodev test_macos test_macostools test_normalization test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_py3kwarn test_scriptpackages test_socketserver test_startfile test_sunaudiodev test_timeout test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg test_winsound test_zipfile64 Those skips are all expected on linux2.
- Install
$ make install
- Finally, I added
~/lib/python/bin/python2.6to my
The first time I ran, I got this message:
Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules: _hashlib _ssl bsddb185 bz2 gdbm readline sunaudiodev To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.
I think I found Ubuntu packages for some of them:
- _hashlib and _ssl in libssl-dev
- bz2 in libbz2-dev
- gdbm in libgdbm-dev
- readline in libreadline5-dev
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#1 -- commented on 2008-10-03:
For me (Hardy, too), additionally the following packages were missing:
libsqlite3-dev (for sqlite3) tk-dev (for tkinter)
I couldn't find packages for:
I recommend using 'checkinstall', because that way you can later easily replace the RC1 with the final:
$ sudo checkinstall
#2 Eliot commented on 2008-10-03:
--, Thanks for the tip. I probably installed sqlite and tkinter already, so I missed them. I will look into
#3 Sybren A. Stüvel commented on 2008-10-03:
An easier way to get all the required dependencies, is to use apt-get to install the build dependencies for Python 2.5:
apt-get build-dep python2.5
The only warnings I get then are:
Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
bsddb185 sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in
detect_modules() for the module's name.
#4 Eliot commented on 2008-10-03:
Sybren, This sounds like a much easier way. Thanks a lot for the tip!
#5 Marek Kubica commented on 2008-10-17:
bsddb185 is an obsolete module and sunaudiodev is only available on Sun Solaris.
#7 Henry.Huang commented on 2008-12-06:
i got all down except:
How could get _dbm module?
#8 Eliot commented on 2008-12-08:
Henry, I did not get this error so I'm not sure, but I found a possible solution here: http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/installing-python-30-on-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex/#comment-493
#9 James Rubino commented on 2009-04-03:
How can I make Python 2.6 the "Grand Pumba" of python installs in my system?
#10 Jeff commented on 2009-04-16:
I second that question. To remove all previous installations, and only use 2.6, what do we do?
#11 Eliot commented on 2009-04-16:
James, Jeff,
If you wait another week (April 23), you can get Python 2.6 as the default python package in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/python/python If you can't wait, the Jaunty Release Candidate is available today.


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Affton, MO
on May 15, 2014
Does anyone know if this recipe can be doubled? Cookies were easy and taste great. The flavor is mild at first, but gets more intense as they cool. So if you can, let them cool. I didn't need any extra flour. The dough was soft, but didn't stick much. My husband is a bee keeper, so thank you for a terrific recipe that uses some of his home grown honey.
Jefferson, LA
on February 23, 2013
Amazing cookie, hint of honey and crisp. Wonderful with cup of coffee in the morning.
on October 03, 2012
These cookies are the BEST! Thanx Laura. Please add more of your easy & fantastic recipes! =
By flourthumb
Columbus, Ohio
on January 10, 2012
Absolutely fantastic cookie! These are our new favorite cookies! I use a snowflake for winter cookies, and a maple leaf other times of the year - the shape does not matter. I have found a BRIEF chilling of the dough helps, but too long and they are difficult to roll out. I usually dont need it but try a bit of cornstarch sifted over the rolling surface instead of flour to keep them crispy.
I have made a couple of variations and they are all great. The best variation I have done is to top them with a sprinkle of kosher or specialty salt! The salt brings out the wonderful sweet flavor of the honey. Sounds crazy but is delicious! Try replacing part of the honey with maple syrup - yummy; add 1/2 t cardamom ( or replace cinnamon if you don't like cinnamon and they are great too.
on October 01, 2011
I chilled the dough before cutting and used a tiny bit of flour on the bottom of the board and plastic wrap on the top so as to not get too much flour in and make the cookies too tough. I love the flavor, but I think I won't cook them to such a crisp next time. Still LOVE these though. Some of the best cookies I have ever had of made :D
on September 11, 2011
A-ma-zing! The dough is very soft, so I just added a bit more flour while rolling it until it was the consistency I liked. 12 min worked perfect for me. I also used salted butter, and a very strong tasting honey.
Later, I tried a variation of this recipe since my husband does not like cinnamon. I replaced the teaspoon of cinnamon for a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Phenomenal cookie!
The best part? Since there is no egg, you can eat all the raw dough you want :-D
San Clemente CA
on July 27, 2011
Fleur de Lys, Heart in Hand, no matter what shape, this dough is amazing in flavor. I did have a bit of a problem with the softness of the dough, so I chilled it before the bake. I figure if a recipe started in grams, it should be used that way, or trouble is down the road, but I found that it was so sticky I had to add flour to the board and worked in less than a hand full more. Could the bakers here and Laura for that matter confirm the measurements of the ingredients? Want these to be ever so perfect.
Plainfield, IL
on June 18, 2011
My grandmother and mother would make these cookies every Christmas.
I miss them thanks you so much for showing me how to make these.
By KissKiss
on June 04, 2011
I can see why this is Laura's favorite cookie. I made honey hearts (my only non-Christmas cookie cutter) exactly as directed, and I absolutely loved them. I gave them to several family members, and everyone went crazy over them. Making another batch right away!
By electroguy02
Phoenix, AZ
on May 24, 2011
We had no Fleur de Lys cookie cutters, so my brother and I just cut them into triangles. The recipe doesn't explicitly say that you should chill the dough, but the long prep time might hint at that, and it should definitely help with the cutting.
I found these cookies to be a bit too sweet, but the honey and cinnamon go really well together. I think using salted butter would help in cutting through the sweetness. Also, because the cookies were supposed to be cooked until crispy, it actually tasted just the tiniest bit burnt; if you like it that crunchy, consider lowering the heat (or even turning off the heat and leaving the cookie in the oven for a longer period of time.
Will definitely make this again, but tweaking the recipe would make it better, at least for my taste buds.
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If you're looking for helpers today in the aftermath of the devastating tornado that touched down outside Oklahoma City, you need not look further than teachers. In many of the tragic events of recent years, teachers have emerged as the most inspiring examples of heroism. Over and over, we hear how their quick thinking and selflessness saved lives, or provided comfort during the worst moments of a child's life. Despite abysmal pay and an array of frustrating challenges, it's the teachers that many parents in Oklahoma, Newtown and other communities have to thank for their kids making it home safely from school.
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Newtown: First grade teacher Victoria Soto, principal Dawn Hochsprung, school psychologist Mary Sherlach, special education teacher Anne Marie Murphy, substitute teacher Lauren Rousseau, and behavioral therapist Rachel D'Avino all perished in the mass shooting. Others, like first-grade teacher Kristen Roig and kindergarten teacher Janet Vollmer read stories to keep the kids quiet and calm, and helped students look away from the carnage as they exited the building, according to CNN.
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With Shaq relegated to cheerleader duty down at the end of the bench in a black suit, and Kendrick Perkins out in Oklahoma City preparing for a playoff game, Boston Celtics fans had resigned themselves to the fact that this postseason run may be brief without a true big man in the middle.
Danny Ainge had done it. He ruined the chances of hanging another banner, No. 18, in Boston, when he rolled the dice and traded Perkins to the Thunder just prior to the trade deadline.
Jermaine O'Neal was an afterthought. No, he wasn't even quite that relevant.
But lost among the sweet stroke of Ray Allen's game-winning 3-pointer, the last of his 24 points on Sunday night, were the "other" O'Neal's invaluable contributions.
It wasn't just that the broken-down 32-year-old made all six of his shots. It was how he sacrificed his body to take charges, how he battled in the paint with Amar'e Stoudemire (28 points, 11 rebounds), and that he gave the Celtics a much-needed defensive presence in the paint.
"We won this game because of Jermaine O'Neal," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said following the 87-85 victory in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series. "That's it."
O'Neal was signed by Ainge in the offseason almost as an insurance policy for Shaq. He wasn't the same player who established himself as a force with the Indiana Pacers in the early 2000s — one who averaged a double-double in three consecutive seasons.
Boston had clear evidence: a playoff series exactly one year ago while O'Neal was with the Miami Heat.
"Sometimes people focus on what they last see," O'Neal said. "And what they last saw was a horrific shooting performance."
O'Neal looked more inept on the offensive end than Perkins. He shot a miserable 9 of 44 from the field in five games and mustered just 21 points.
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O'Neal said he doesn't listen to the critics, but he was well aware of what they were saying: This O'Neal had even less of a chance than the other one, seven years his elder, of coming back.
"When I had surgery, I wasn't sure because you never know," O'Neal said. "You don't know what they'll find when they go in."
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"Then I never had any doubts," O'Neal said.
O'Neal did three weeks of intense rehab in Chicago with Michael Jordan's famed trainer, Tim Grover, which helped allow him to rejoin the Celtics.
"It was the most difficult thing I've gone through in my 15 years in this league," O'Neal said.
With Shaq on the mend and virtually all of New England criticizing Ainge for unloading Perkins, a fan favorite due to his defense and toughness, O'Neal may have rescued Boston from a disastrous series-opening loss.
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There was no resemblance to the explosive O'Neal who was once one of the most feared frontcourt players in the league, but he gutted out 22 minutes, finished with 12 points, grabbed four rebounds, swatted four shots and altered several more.
"He was huge for them," Knicks forward Bill Walker acknowledged. "I think they were resting him for the playoffs."
The Celtics needed something. In the first half, they looked old. They couldn't stop the Knicks — despite Carmelo Anthony sitting nearly the entire first quarter with foul trouble — and the offense was stagnant.
But then the team that was able to flip the switch a year ago did just that after the break, ramping up the defensive intensity, which resulted in more precise offensive execution, especially in the fourth quarter.
In crunch time, the plan is for Glen "Big Baby" Davis to finish the game in the middle along with three future Hall of Famers — Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Allen — and All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo.
"It's not how I planned it," Rivers said. "But J.O. played so well and we needed stops. … It was more of a gut."
And it resulted in the Celtics dodging a significant bullet.
Perkins has taken his toughness and scowl to the Midwest. Shaq's return is still uncertain as Rivers said he's day-to-day with his latest injury.
However, the Celtics still have that "other" O'Neal, the one who is no longer a forgotten man.
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You are wrong. The correct blend of most anything with water will cause the lowering of the freezing point. Salt, vinegar, glycerol, alcohol are all ingredient which can lower the freezing point 20 or more degrees below freezing depending on the concentration. Salt is frozen (solid) at room temperature, yet when you add a little to water the freezing point drops to well below normal. With salt you can drop waters FP to -20ºC--and salt was already solid! It is an effect well known to people that have studied chemistry in college.
- November 13, 2013 at 8:25 AM
Oohhh got you moded!!!
JK - I was curious if this actually worked or not too. Anonymous 1 sounds like a physicist. Interesting comment
- November 13, 2013 at 11:57 AM
You are correct that additives to water do cause lowering of the melting point (or freezing point if you prefer). That's why salting a driveway helps to melt the snow. It lowers the temperature at which the snow will melt. However, store vinegar is already a very dilute solution of acetic acid in water, so it only changes the melting point very slightly, from 32 degF to 28degF. You have your principles right, but your data wrong, anonymous 1.
- November 13, 2013 at 12:06 PM
- CeeCee said...
exactly, Anonymous #2. Where as Anon #1 is correct in their statement that it will lower the freezing point, it only lowers it to a mere 28 degrees, vs 32 for water. Salt water on the other hand has a freezing point of -6 degrees, and most commercial grade deicers can reach up to -25 before freezing. So if you use the vinegar and let it sit over night, depending on the temperatures reached you very well may have a much bigger mess to deal with come morning.
- November 13, 2013 at 12:31 PM
I just found this... b/c I was curious. I saw this "tip" on facebook today...and I was wondering if this was a hoax or not. I did a google search and found a windshield business that says "vinegar eats pits into the windshield glass". Not sure if THAT is true but I'll just err on the side of caution and scrape like I usually do....
- November 13, 2013 at 1:05 PM
- CeeCee said...
I was wondering why I was suddenly getting a HUGE flux of hits on this post today. Sometimes my posts get picked up by places like Life Hacks, what page on facebook if you don't mind me asking?
- November 13, 2013 at 1:11 PM
I agree with just covering up the windshield. You can buy something at the auto supply store, or just just use cardboard as they suggest.
- November 13, 2013 at 1:24 PM
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- November 13, 2013 at 1:26 PM
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- November 13, 2013 at 1:27 PM
- CeeCee said...
thanks! :)
- November 13, 2013 at 1:32 PM
That's why I came here. Though I didn't really find an answer. Oh well.
- November 13, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Several times, have seen the suggestion on facebook with variations. Your page was one that made more sense.
- November 13, 2013 at 2:43 PM
park in a friggin' garage
- November 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM
- Michael said...
Gee, why didn't I think of that? What I dope I am to live in a part of the city where street parking is the only option.
- November 13, 2013 at 3:31 PM
If the cardboard get wet and then freezes you could have a terrible mess as it tears apart when you try to peel it off the window.
- November 13, 2013 at 5:12 PM
The best and easiest thing to do is to put a sheet of cheap polyethylene (painter's drop cloth) across your windshield and tuck it inside your front doors and close the doors to keep it in place. I use a sheet that is wide enough to also hang down over my front door windows. I put sandwich bags and rubber bands on my mirrors. In the morning, I just remove all the plastic, shake the ice and snow off them, and throw them into the garage...and off I go while my neighbors are scraping and cursing.
- November 13, 2013 at 6:13 PM
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- November 13, 2013 at 7:09 PM
- CeeCee said...
Just an FYI - I really don't mind negative or combative comments (They make me laugh, because you're basically arguing science at this point, especially on this post) but I do however delete comments with an insane amount of "The Mother of All Swear Words" in it.
- November 13, 2013 at 9:08 PM
So I can say it a reasonable amount then? Sweet thanks!
- November 13, 2013 at 9:25 PM
- CeeCee said...
Only if you use it in a positive way to say how much you love my blog :P Then it wouldn't be a "bad" word right? That sounds logical.
- November 13, 2013 at 9:38 PM
oh my just scrap the frickin windows!
- November 14, 2013 at 2:57 AM
Well people who are disabled or have heart conditions might not be able to scrape and shovel so any winter tips are useful.
- November 14, 2013 at 4:14 AM
I was told the Vinegar will ruin my paint job on the car..
- November 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM
Seems a little extreme to "scrap" your windows rather than just scrape them.
- November 14, 2013 at 8:29 AM
I imagine this would eat at your car considering Vinegar is an acid based substance. Salt water destroys your car, wouldn't this be worse? This would just eat away at your car.
- November 14, 2013 at 10:28 PM
- Anna Fine said...
Not everyone has the luxury of parking in a garage!
- November 16, 2013 at 9:19 AM
wow that first comment was from someone who need to repeat chemistry. Salt does is not frozen at room temperature. It's a solid it has no freezing point. It does not melt when you add water it dissolves.
- November 16, 2013 at 4:19 PM
Ha ha ha. And I thought I was horrible in chem class. so I wonder at what temperature salt turns to a gas?
- November 16, 2013 at 9:47 PM
- Miss Laurie said...
Salt vaporizes at 2575 degrees F.
- November 17, 2013 at 6:30 AM
"wow that first comment was from someone who need to repeat chemistry. Salt does is not frozen at room temperature. It's a solid it has no freezing point. It does not melt when you add water it dissolves".
It is you who needs to go back to school im afraid ... check what you say before you sound off....salt is indeed fozen in its solid state at room temperature and melts(not disolves in water) to liquid at 801c and boils to vapour at 1413c it is used for at least one aplication in liquid form i know of for tempering steel tools. I have used it myself
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- November 17, 2013 at 11:07 PM
doctor's office today when sleet started falling, freezing on windshields. Didn't even know where a scraper was as I seldom get out in icy weather (have carport). So I ran out and put the nylon type sunshades I had in my car from a few days ago in Texas that is was 80 degrees and put them on the outside instead of the inside, held by windshield wipers. Luckily no wind blowing and it worked great. Swished them off to a clean window and threw in the back of van and came home. :)
- November 22, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Ha! I was just telling my sister I saw this post on FB about spraying your windscreen with watery and vinegar... and that I've tried it and by the time I sprayed all windows and came back around to the windscreen again the ice had melted nicely enough so I could just push it down with my scraper. I am not worried about the little bit of diluted vinegar damaging my car, I think it's probably negligible.
- November 27, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Thanks for the tips and not so-tips.. great duscussion
- December 3, 2013 at 6:27 PM
could you just keep a spray bottle of a windshield de-icer in your car (don't they have the kind that suppose to cut ice right away..?) for emergencies...? you can spray by the time you get to the other side...it would be easier to scrape..?
am going to try the plastic on the windshield thing / plastic bags on mirrors (cool idea). does it have to be the thicker plastic? i had to scrape this morning.. really sucked!
- December 5, 2013 at 12:33 PM
- Elisha said...
This is the reaon I wouldn't do this. Vinegar is bad fot your car and the window. Do this repeatedly and you may have bigger window problems on your hand.
- December 6, 2013 at 5:45 AM
- ~Sweet T~ said...
FYI: Another take on Vinegar damaging windows …
Windex (and other glass cleaners) are normally 5% ammonia in some sort of volatile solvent, with some detergents and other chemicals. The more environmentally-friendly variants replace the ammonia with acetic acid. A solution of 5% acetic acid (typical white vinegar) isn't going to hurt anything that 5% ammonia wouldn't.
- December 6, 2013 at 6:22 AM
- ~Sweet T~ said...
FYI: Another take on Vinegar damaging windows …
Windex (and other glass cleaners) are normally 5% ammonia in some sort of volatile solvent, with some detergents and other chemicals. The more environmentally-friendly variants replace the ammonia with acetic acid. A solution of 5% acetic acid (typical white vinegar) isn't going to hurt anything that 5% ammonia wouldn't.
- December 6, 2013 at 6:27 AM
- ~Sweet T~ said...
FYI: Another take on Vinegar damaging windows …
Windex (and other glass cleaners) are normally 5% ammonia in some sort of volatile solvent, with some detergents and other chemicals. The more environmentally-friendly variants replace the ammonia with acetic acid. A solution of 5% acetic acid (typical white vinegar) isn't going to hurt anything that 5% ammonia wouldn't.
OR as PhotoBug suggested :
The best and easiest thing to do is to put a sheet of cheap polyethylene (painter's drop cloth) across your windshield and tuck it inside your front doors and close the doors to keep it in place..
-Or- use a sheet that is wide enough to also hang down over my front door windows.
• Put sandwich bags and rubber bands on my mirrors.
• In the morning, - Just remove all the plastic, - Shake the ice and snow off them, - And throw them into the *garage...
And off you go while the neighbors are Still scraping and cursing.... :)
[* Only one problem, if you have a garage, all this is useless.. haha. So I would say - Throw them in the store room... :) ]
- December 6, 2013 at 10:17 AM
- ~Sweet T~ said...
** Throw them in the store room....
Because if we had a "garage" then we really wouldn't need all this, Right?!?! :)
Good suggestion, tho... Thanks
Never thought about the 'baggies & rubber bands' on the mirrors...
- December 6, 2013 at 10:26 AM
- ~Sweet T~ said...
The issue of whether this method of ice prevention will indeed pit windshield glass is a matter of contention, with some cautioning that it does:
Pour a mixture of vinegar and water on the windshield so that it freezes to the glass before the rain does, thereby preventing ice. Unfortunately, vinegar eats pits into the windshield glass.
However, others assert that vinegar is commonly used in glass cleaning solutions and ordinary household vinegar is far too weak a form of acetic acid to produce this sort of damage:
Very few acids will dissolve glass — that's why they keep them in glass bottles. Does your vinegar bottle look pock-marked?
Windex (and other glass cleaners) are normally 5% ammonia in some sort of volatile solvent, with some detergents and other chemicals. The more environmentally-friendly variants replace the ammonia with acetic acid. A solution of 5% acetic acid (typical white vinegar) isn't going to hurt anything that 5% ammonia wouldn't.
Yet others note that even if vinegar doesn't harm windshield glass, it might cause damage to paint, chrome, or other exterior surfaces, so it should be used on automobiles with caution and wiped up promptly if spilled.
Not sure -"READ" articles & decided for yourself…
- December 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM
- CeeCee said...
I think the bigger issue at hand though, is even if this is fairly ok to use on your car, the fact of the matter stands is that vinegar freezes at 28*, probably even higher temps since the original idea involves mixing it with water. If it's cold enough for ice to form on your windshield, it's probably cold enough for this to freeze as well. I was personally really excited when I saw snopes had finally gotten to this idea, but disappointed once I read they only focus on the idea of it damaging your car - that's an afterthought in my opinion about this idea, since the original idea stands the chance of failing miserably.
- December 6, 2013 at 11:47 AM
You should never assume. I actually tried this-and yes, the temp was below 28°- and it actually worked. Saved me a lot of time since I didn't have to stand out in cold scraping the ice off. Plus, there was no damage to my windshield. I think this article is based off of a hypothetical situation instead of someone actually going out and trying it. I don't think it's right for someone to be like "Here's why I think this won't work, but wait, I haven't actually tried it." So please people, don't let someone else's opinion deter you from trying a helpful tip.
- December 6, 2013 at 7:46 PM
I have tried it too and it worked wonders for me. It was 20 degrees when I went outside this morning and my car was iced except for where I sprayed the windows. Also, the "pitting" of the windows is not true. If it was, why would they bottle the vinegar in glass bottles? That doesnt pit, does it?
- December 7, 2013 at 12:36 PM
you really think that a glass bottle is the same as your windshield? smh
- December 7, 2013 at 8:26 PM
I just tried this and it works.
- December 8, 2013 at 1:23 PM
- Judi Howlett said...
I live in Wisconsin and i use this all the time 3/4 cup vinegar to 1/4 cup water and it works awesome .. dont always believe what people post saying things are not true .. oh and it works to melt ice from stuck shut doors ..
- December 10, 2013 at 9:29 AM
- December 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM
I live in MN and moments ago tried this. It is 8º windchill right now and we are having s sleet storm so the ice was ready to be tested. It worked fine. As a matter of fact, I not only did the windows, I tried it on a trash can lid, a bird house roof and even my concrete steps. Works better than scraping.
- January 3, 2014 at 6:39 PM
it is -6°F here and much colder with windchill. My car doors are completely frozen shut so I'M going to put this vinegar/water idea to the test. Wish me luck :)
- January 6, 2014 at 5:29 AM
- Matt Bland said...
The real trick is to WASH your windshield with the vinegar and a lint-free towel. That will remove all or most of the tiny dust particles that cause the frost to form and cling to your windows. As far as some people saying it pits your glass, doesn't vinegar come in glass bottles? How many of those bottles are pitted when the vinegar is gone?
- January 6, 2014 at 2:41 PM
- Matt Bland said...
As far as the OTHER people saying that glass bottles are not the same as the glass in your windshield, yes it is. Laminated glass (what your windshield is made of) has a sheet of plastic sandwiched between two sheets of glass. The glass is the same type of glass as the bottle of vinegar. I have been a glazier for nearly 10 years. The silica content of the two types of glass varies only a few percent.
- January 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM
Okay, obviously none of you ever grew up in the upper north. Aside from the cardboard or cover which are sold and a great idea, the rest is wrong. It's true that vinegar and even alcohol at a high enough concentration, will eat through your clear coat, the same one protecting your paint from road salt and sand. They will also eat through your paint. The ones designed and marketed for vehicle use are designed to not do this. In all honesty, the best way is to wake up early enough to turn your car on and let it warm up. Turn your defroster and heater as well as the rear defroster on high. Go back out about 20 to 30 minutes later and push it all right off. Another way is that you don't have to completely melt the ice. You only have to warm the underside connected to the windshield in-order to detach it. Then all you do is push it off. So just get the defrosters heated and on high, a few minutes and it will scrape off easily. In a hurry, this works I have been doing it for years. If in a hurry start your vehicle give it 5-10 minutes to warm turn the heat and defrost on high. Have a big pan of boiling water and slowly pour it over the ice. Right after follow up with windshield de-icer, or the de-icer you should have in your windshield washer. Yes the water will cool and freeze fast but not after melting and removing ice. The de-icer in the windshield washer fluid will keep it from icing. However it will ice on the body of the car.
- January 7, 2014 at 5:23 AM
Though I will admit I never thought about trying saltwater. That is a very interesting Idea, I will have to try that sometime. However, as it stands when you're -20 degrees below zero and -40 with windchill salt does nothing. They stop putting salt on the roads when the temperatures go below 0, as it will not melt or prevent melting. They then use sand, lots and lots of sand. Oh, my poor car. Never drive a sports car in the winter, tip. Yes I am an idiot!
- January 7, 2014 at 5:33 AM
Esh, I need more coffee. I meant prevent icing, sorry about that.
- January 7, 2014 at 5:35 AM
Everyone knows you should never ever pour boiling water on cold glass. It will bust that windshield open. Try lukewarm water and I do mean lukewarm. I was cooking in my oven and using a pyrex rectangular shaped dish. I don't use it often, I open the oven and peeled the foil back and added cold tap water, the whole dish shattered into hundreds of pieces. I never did this again. Never pour boiling water on a windshield in cold weather.
- January 28, 2014 at 6:07 AM
- GROOVIX GROOVE said...
Greetings to all,
I have a method to share. I have been doing the following in Northern New Jersey every time Mother Winter leaves us a gift of toil and trouble. Firstly, make certain you have Calcium Chloride, spray bottles, plastic bucket, flat broom/s, shovels. Depending on the severity of the storm, you must arise with anticipation or early enough to do this, if you have to go in to work or if you decide your children will go to school, if schools are open. Dress warmly in layers and please wear gloves and head cover. Make sure you are wearing boots or impermeable footwear, if possible. Have a hot cup of coffee/tea/cocoa, before or even during the extrication of your auto,(Thermos or water bottles work fine).
NOW: prepare hot, "not boiling", water in a spray bottle or a large reservoir,(bucket) and as you are outside next to your vehicle, carefully pour the hot water over the driver-side door, door seam and handle. (You will do the same afterward for the passenger door, mirrors, windshield and rear glass). When the driver-door opens without problem, enter and "start your engine" and turn on the heater on the closed-circuit windshield setting at the hottest level and allow your car to warm up inside, close your car's door. Then as you pour rest of the hot water on your vehicle, the ice or snow will melt instantly.
NOW: you may be able to remove the rest of the snow with a broom, yes a broom, not a shovel. If the snow is soft, the broom should remove it easily from your car's windows, roof, trunk, etcetera.
The undercarriage is always a challenge and it is why you must start your car's engine as soon as you melt the ice or snow from your driver-side door. Make certain you have also poured hot water also over any snow that may be blocking your driver-door's exterior, at the bottom, etc. If you remembered to turn on your car's heater, let your vehicle run for awhile, the car's engine will melt or soften the snow underneath. After twenty or so minutes, your car's interior will be very nice and the snow and ice from the windows will have begun sliding off as the ice/snow is defrosting. You might want to sit inside your now warm car for a few, before finishing the job.
NOW: with your plastic or steel shovel, you can begin to remove the snow blocking your car's path of exit. If the snow is ice-like or too hard, you must use hot water again to melt the snow and then removal with the shovel becomes so much less taxing. Remember, you must pour calcium chloride onto the pavement and areas where the water you poured, landed. This will make it safer for any pedestrian or vehicle traffic. When you are redy to move your car, turn your steering left and right several times to release the tires from the snow underneath. Carefully drive forward and reverse several times also to loosen the vehicle from the snow. When safe, carefully exit the spot and drive with your loved-ones in mind always. It keeps us from driving like idiots, well some of us...
I understand that this all sounds like too much work or too difficult, however, inclement weather is never easy on us and snow storms maybe the worst, only after hurricanes. Yes, I've also been through three hurricanes in Florida. It is a hassle either way, yet I have used this method in the winter, successfully and been on my way to work or whatever else on my agenda.
Use the least common denominator and if you DO NOT need to go anywhere for the rest of the storm or day, please stay inside until it's over. When it's allowable, do your duty safely. Most importantly as with everything in life, be safe and use sound judgment. Always be certain you can do this sort of physical activity and if you have cardiac conditions, get a younger person to do it for you. No shame in that.
Peace and God Bless!!!
Antonio Melero
- February 12, 2014 at 2:59 PM
Never pour hot water on an ice covered window you can crack the glass also you can do one of two thing to deice any car very easily in about ten minutes, either start the car and let it run with the defroster on or buy a block/ oil heater for your car and do it that way, its been a pretty rough winter this year and I have never spent more then ten minutes clearing off my car except when my door was frozen shut which I went in through a different door and then after I unfroze it I coated the weatherstripping ( the price of rubber on the inside of your car door) with a dry lubricant to prevent any more freezing.
- February 17, 2014 at 8:26 PM
Anyone who has lived near the beach can tell you, Salt water + car = damaged paint. Don't use salt either!
- May 12, 2014 at 12:07 PM
- aldex said...
- July 29, 2014 at 5:36 AM
- June Huston said...
That sounds interesting! I'm going to use your advice that winter! Thank you for sharing!
- November 6, 2014 at 4:33 AM
parking in the garage makes a lot of sense too
- November 15, 2014 at 7:56 PM
Will the plastic bags be frozen on mirrors if we have ice storm?
- November 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM
5x8 tarp + 4 bungee cords + 3 minutes = one Dodge Neon with windshield, top, and most of the side windows covered up. In the morning, a couple minutes to take it off, shake off snow and put in trunk. MUCH easier and faster than scraping.
- November 16, 2014 at 6:02 AM
The vinegar/water mix works marginally, but does help. I use an antifreeze windshield wiper fluid and add a little vinegar, alcohol and dish soap. If I must park outside, I cover my windshield with a large trash bag split open end-to-end, held in place with the windshield wipers and tucked into my doors or windows. Works like a charm, better than one of the store-bought cover. My store-bought cover didn't work well at all.
- November 17, 2014 at 11:10 PM
- David Thornton said...
Just pour coke on the ice, it will work great
- November 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM
- David Thornton said...
Also it works great on rust too
- November 18, 2014 at 1:03 PM
Why pay a lot for de-icing chemicals when you can make it at home? Using 2 quarts of rubbing alcohol, 1 cup water and 1 teaspoon of dish detergent, you now have a winter window washing fluid at a fraction of the price at a local store. Pour a similar mix on walkways to prevent freezing after shoveling: 1 teaspoon liquid dish detergent, 1 tablespoon of rubbing alcohol, and 1.5 gallons of water. Spray 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water on your car windows the night before to prevent ice from forming. You will still need to brush off the snow (of course!).
- November 20, 2014 at 6:55 AM
- M Wood said...
Cardboard will blow away if its windy, your windshield wipers wont hold it down.
- November 21, 2014 at 11:38 AM
Plastic newspaper bags on the wipers, regular plastic shopping bags on the side mirrors, rubber-backed door mat on the windshield. The mat is heavy enough to stay on the windshield without moving and will stave off the snow and ice without sticking to the glass. If the mat doesn't cover the whole windshield, then at least the vital part is clear and you'll be able to defrost the rest on the road.
- December 2, 2014 at 5:31 PM


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Really nice image, thanks for sharing.
Just beyond words…
One of my favorite shots of all time! Incredible man!
beautiful shot,I like the rim light in the photo.
Awesome shot, and an awesome travel schedule coming up too Otto. Very nice brother.
What Mark said – felt like I was reading a riddle there but after processing it, he's right
beauty on this pic.
There are four stages a photographer goes through,
Unconsciously incompetent
As always beautiful work my friend.
WOW!! Just amazing!
otto. sweet jebus. love that frame.
Absolutely stunning! Gosh, I wish I could get this effect. ♥
variation on the silhouette. very beautiful and i can still see the expression on their faces! perfect.
Holy hair lighting Batman.
you're the man. for sure.
really pretty! Great lighting
absolutely stunning!
Hi Otto
This is not really my photography sector but I followed a tweet and I must say that this is a stunning wedding portrait and takes it to a new level of creativity. Grant
This is awesome Otto.
This is awesome Otto.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Beautiful capture.