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Nobody's Perfect: Rupert Murdoch VS Burger King
Nobody's Perfect
This week, we have the subject of two separations: Rupert Murdoch VS Burger King.
Hey! I didn't even know (or care) about Rupert Murdoch's love life, but there it was in Vanity Fair: Rupert's young Chinese wife of 14 years, Wendi, had been having sexual affairs with other men—- and not just any men. Tony Blair, Google's Eric Schmidt, and co-founder of MySpace, Chris DeWolfe. (How she missed Bill Clinton is anybody's guess.)
Get the feeling she likes to feel connected?
Really, what's a billionaire mogul to do? His mother tried to warn him to stay with his last wife, who wanted him to retire, but Wendi saw her way to riches, and Rupert saw his way INTO China, and with the help of science, he was off to another marriage…his third.
But, good news all you Chinese gold-diggers out there! Rupert is now divorced.
It's not the shock that a young women took advantage of an older man's riches, it's that she had to bed the one man Rupert had put into power, Mr. Blair, and she did it in their own house…and yacht…and who knows where else? Probably even in the Tower of London!
Rupert had raised LOADS of money for Tony, who really doesn't need more either. But in the hall of fame gold-diggers, Wendi choose carefully: ALL these men …were powerful, rich, and mostly married.
And then we have the divorce of Burger King and its money, from Obama. Yes, Burger King is taking its big Whoppers and moving its headquarters to Canada where it will pay less taxes.
Obama has called this exodus of major American companies to other countries…unpatriotic!
After all…Walgreens wanted to move, and stopped cold after hearing those words, so, should we all be mad that Burger King is NOT going to pay its fair share, and you and I will have to fork out even more? Is it really their fault?
Who wins the Nobody's Perfect award for the week? (No, it's not Al Sharpton, I'm sick to death of him.)
Is it Rupert Murdoch, who failed to see that he was marrying a gold-digger? Rumors are he lost over $1.7 billion. Wendi got him into buying MySpace, which he paid $545 million and sold for $35 million. Uh….not exactly what you would expect a smart man to do.
And even though she signed a pre-nup, she got the Rockefeller triplex on Fifth Avenue ($70 million), the house in Beijing ($40 million), $14 million for each year she was married, jewelry and half of their art collection.
Or does the trophy go to Burger King, who just couldn't stand to keep paying Obama's high taxes?
It's obvious isn't it?
What a man will do for a pretty face, and a busty oriental beauty.
We really can't blame Burger King for wanting to desert America. That fault goes to our past Presidents (of BOTH parties) who threw America out the window with the bath water when they dreamed up globalization.
Burger King doesn't need us anymore…it's in every country in the world now, and its the American people who continue to lose.
As for the REAL loser of the week…Al Sharpton……go ahead……fill in the blank………………………………………
Monsanto…Wants to Get OUT of the Country.
Nobody Reads
Once of the things I tell myself, whenever I hear Dick Cheney or Obama saying that we will CERTAINLY be attacked again–I say, "Good thing Monsanto has its world headquarters here! No one would DARE bomb the world center of genetically modified crops! "
I just read that Monsanto wants to take its world headquarters from St. Louis to Switzerland, to avoid paying U.S. taxes. The deal didn't go through, but it's only a matter of time.
Today, by sheer coincidence, I was reading about just how many people who work for Monsanto, are big on the "control the food supply" band wagon and work for the government.
Michael Taylor: The number two at the FDA was a former attorney to Monsanto, and later a Monsanto Vice-President for Public Policy. Obama picked him to be his food Czar.
Christine Lewis Taylor, his wife: Is a long time employee of the food and Drug Administration and is promoting that nutrients are toxins and that nutrients should be defined as toxins to justify the imposition of limits on the quantity of essential nutrients that people can consume.
Margaret Hamburg: Was appointed by Obama to head the Food and Drug Administration and is on the board of directors at Trust for American's Health and the Rockefeller Foundation, which has spent a fortune promoting genetically modified food.
Rosa DeLauro: Introduced HR 875 (US Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009) She was a Democratic Congresswoman from the Skull and Bones of New Haven, CT, at Yale University, and has a master's degree from the London School of Economics.
Well, you get the idea. Yale, Harvard, Obama…Monsanto…New World Food Order.
In the meantime, while we are all getting to realize the 'food' on our grocery shelves is filled with things that aren't exactly good for us..the real reason for Monsanto to take over the world's food supply is..
You guessed it: money.
I don't know WHAT fool in the Patent Office gave the okay for "genes" to be patented and owned, but you can bet he is living the high life somewhere.
Monsanto leaving the United States will not upset any congressman. It's the new 'globalization', but this globalization…to the regular citizen: sucks. I much preferred Americanization.
Is it any wonder they want the old people to die off? I'm not against modified crops, but what is atrocious, it the dictatorial monopoly of Monsanto, given to them by our government.
I suppose I should look at it from the other point of view: We'll have fewer jobs–we might become the second Detroit–but Muhammad is going to care less about us. And even if Monsanto DOES leave, it will still have the same control over every single farmer in the world, thanks to the elites.
Who…no doubt, eat home-grown food from secret elite farms.
I hope a giant ebola spider jumps off their breakfast orange.
Nobody's Perfect: The American Embassy in Iraq VS The Pentagon
Nobody's Perfect:
This week, we have two buildings that are in grave danger: They are both big, they both employ thousands of people, and they both could be taken over. (Or have been already.)
FIRST: The American Embassy in Iraq.
President Bush really didn't talk about it much, but when he decided to build the biggest embassy in the world, in that unstable country called IRAQ, and on top of that insane idea, make it look more like a summer home for King Saud than an American embassy–well let's just say it was more than a bit over the top.
Its so big, Obama would even consider living in it.
We understand that the officers like to have a nice place to spend their hours, but did they really need to build the biggest swimming pool in the world?
I'm having a flashback: Saddam was invading Kuwait—and in order to protect the sissy Muslim boys in their palaces, Daddy Bush came to the rescue. And now, we see Obama had to take a few moments from his putt shot on the 18th hole to try to 'save' that billion-dollar complex called the Baghdad Embassy from ISIS.
Who would really love a nice dip after their hard days of slaughtering. .
"President Barack Obama announced late Monday that he plans to deploy approximately 275 troops to Iraq who will "provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad."
ONLY 275? They need that for the pool alone. Obama has more guys protecting him than that when he takes a trip to Ireland to drink beer.
"The force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat," Obama wrote in a letter to Congress. "This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed."
The exact number of people being evacuated from Baghdad — the American government prefers to say they are being "relocated" — was not disclosed. But the embassy will remain open, and most of its staff will remain, according to the State Department.
Ha.ha.ha. Notice the words, "No longer needed." That's..when? 5055?
Which brings up the second very expensive complex called the Pentagon. It actually costs LESS to build than the Baghdad embassy…only $83 million, as opposed to several billion, but employs over 24,000 thousand people. According to the reports, only 5,500 American are working at that biggest embassy in the world.
And Nobody asks: Which was a bigger waste of taxpayer's money?
So who wins the Nobody's Perfect Award for the week?
Or should it be: Which President has wasted taxpayers money the most?
That's a HARD one, because the figures are all hidden in Cayman Island bank accounts.
Did Bush build that embassy because he expected someday for the Saudi Family to take it over? Or was it for the elite American officers?
If you picked the Embassy in Baghdad I'd have to agree. It wins for being the biggest waste of taxpayer's money on the planet, second only to Obama's vacations, in my Nobody's Opinion.
Glenn Back had this to say about it:
"I hope to God we detonate that thing," Beck said, but his co-host Pat Gray predicted that American leadership would never order such a move, and it would fall into the hands of extremists first.
"I can guarantee you that's a listening station," Beck said of the embassy. "When we were at CNN, we started looking into the Baghdad embassy, and … it was estimated to be over $1 billion at the time. And there were no pictures of this, no one was talking about it, and it is … bigger than all of Vatican City."
And what will the terrorists say if they mow down the 275 soldiers protecting that Disneyland of opulence? I can hear it now:
"We are coming for the Pentagon, next."
Nobody's Fool: Pat Buchanan
Nobody's Fool
He's called a right-wing conservative nut, but when it comes to the "big picture", Hillary could take some lessons from Pat Buchanan.
I've read many of his books, and he explains our dire situation that America is in with facts and solid numbers.
I wanted to share this piece he wrote on WMD in my files. It's called, How the GOP Lost Middle America.
Here's an excerpt:
To understand why and how the Republican Party lost Middle America, and faces demographic death, we need to go back to Bush I.
At the Cold War's end, the GOP reached a fork in the road. The determination of Middle Americans to preserve the country they grew up in suddenly collided with the profit motive of Corporate America.
The Fortune 500 wanted to close factories in the USA and ship production abroad – where unions did not exist, regulations were light, taxes were low, and wages were a fraction of what they were here in America.
Corporate America was going global and wanted to be rid of its American workforce, the best paid on earth, and replace it with cheap foreign labor.
While manufacturing sought to move production abroad, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants, farms and construction companies that could not move abroad also wanted to replace their expensive American workers.
Thanks to the Republican Party, Corporate America got it all.
Read the rest of this excellent article here:
Congratulations Pat! Everything you have predicted in your books is coming true. At the helm of our politicians, America is falling….
You win the Nobody's Fool Award for the decade.
Nobody's Perfect: Mozilla VS GM
Nobody's Perfect:
This week, we have two companies that are trying very hard to cover up past mistakes. Let's see if we can pick the lesser of the two evils
FIRST UP: Mozilla. Which runs a search engine called Firefox. It seems, the company's owners found out too late, that it's appointed CEO, Brendan Eich, had committed an unspeakable crime:
He helped set up an Al-Qaeda training camp in California—no wait. That was a California Senator.
No, Brenda did something evidently much worse…he donated money to outlaw same-sex marriage, which in California is a crime far exceeding setting up Al-Qaeda training camps.
Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich is stepping down as CEO following protests over his support of a gay marriage ban in California. At issue was Eich's $1,000 donation in 2008 to the campaign to pass California's Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that outlawed same-sex marriages.
HIS boss, who happens to be a woman, said this when she found out:
"We didn't act like you'd expect Mozilla to act. We didn't move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry. We must do better," Baker wrote.
She said that Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech and that "figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard."
Yes, MS Baker just can't seem to get the concept of free speech, which is why I'm immensely proud of the fact that I never downloaded Firefox, even though Kim Komando (I really like her) suggested it. I went with my gut: Google and Microsoft do enough damage to a computer, why add a third?
SECOND UP: GM. This now great Chinese company was in the hot seat this week, for cutting corners, and not replacing a small ignition switch that cost 57cents.
A safety watchdog group has released a study that shows General Motors (GM) airbag failures resulted in the death of some 300 people, eight times the number that GM stated.
GM said there had been 12 deaths in 34 cars; the study shows 303 in 1.6 million vehicles from the vehicles GM recalled last month. GM did not recall the cars until February, despite learning of problems with the ignition switch in 2001 and issuing related service bulletins to dealers with suggested remedies in 2005.
So what did GM do? They immediately promoted the smartest and most innocent looking woman they could find in their stack of employees and made her CEO to take the heat: Mary Barra. And Mary went before Congress to explain:
Barra, who has been CEO for less than three months, fielded questions from the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for two hours, avoiding any obvious gaffes and keeping her cool but also largely ducking specific answers, saying an internal investigation is underway into why it took GM so long to address ignition-switch problems first detected in 2001 this year.
She was battered for speaking "gobbledygook," thumped for not firing an engineer who apparently concealed a change to the potentially deadly switches, and blasted because GM made an economic decision to keep the flawed component in production while knowing it didn't meet GM standards.
So, who wins the Nobody's Perfect award for the week?
Mozilla…basically hurt, not only one guy, who didn't deserve to be ostracized for his own opinions about sex, but their bottom line. Many conservatives are going to stop using Firefox, and they will lose customers, and Mozilla might end up on the not very popular proverbial floor looking for CNN.
GM on the other hand, has killed 300 people with their negligence, and no one has been fired.(Proof that it's been nationalized)
BUT…having said that…they are small peanuts compared to how many people will die due to the new Obamacare "less is more" healthcare law.
But, I know, I'm always doing this at the end of my Nobody's Perfect opinions. So…
I pick GM.
If a bunch of gay people running Mozilla want to have only gay liberals working for their company, hey, doesn't bother me. It's a free country, and it's a good thing now we know we don't have to use your product.
But, GM…was bailed out by the American people…and murder is murder, no matter if it comes from a greedy bottom line, or a population-culling healthcare law.
So, to make ourselves forget both these companies…enjoy the SNL skit on what all scumbags do, whether they are big multinational companies or corrupt government officials…. when they are caught being…scumbags. They lie.
I could not for the life of me find it on Youtube, but you can see the SNL video HERE. It's worth the watch!
Putins' BEST New Idiot Friend: Barack Hussein Obama
Nobody's Opinion
The big headline today: Vladimir Putin is taking back the Ukraine, and the rich western elites, who are busy enjoying their ski vacations in Snow Mass and Switzerland, are going to have to call a meeting, because, gee…what are they going to do?
They thought Putin would accept his place in the world, and now, they are afraid. Obama dismantled the missiles that protected Europe and destroyed our military, downsized NATO, and has left the middle East open to the Muslims Brotherhood, and doesn't even seem concerned about Europe, or Putin.
At the emergency meeting of ambassadors from the 28 Nato member states, it was said: "Russia must stop its military activities and its threats." The United States dramatically intensified pressure on Moscow, threatening to remove Russia from the G8 club of developed economies
Wow…I'm sure Putin is really concerned, about missing the caviar served at the G8 meetings. It's probably imported from Russia anyway.
There is a dirty little secret .shssssssssss. You might have figured it out by now, maybe…but frankly, because I watch the same cable networks as everyone else, it really didn't dawn on me either, until I read this today:
The article was called Russian's New Icon: (Time Magazine, November 9, 1998) Remember—by 1998 Russia had been defeated by Ronald Reagan, and Yeltsin the great American backed puppet, was a drunk, and so a man named Primakov became Prime Minister.
The Afghanistan war had depleted Russia of men and money, and the great Ronald Reagan saw an opportunity to defeat Russia when they were at their weakest, and he did. Russia broke up into little pieces.
Here's the paragraph that struck me:
Though he seems every inch a disciplinarian, Primakov has not yet been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat.
Primakov cannot wave Russia's current disaster away. Wages have to be paid on time, even if the government still cannot afford payment of back salaries for a while. the Nations' idled factories have to start production again, even if they are not producing anything of great quality.
Sound familiar? This is what an American reporter was saying about Russia. Now, close you're eyes, and that is America, 2014.
Now…we don't get the real news from the world here in America. Sure, we have our internet, but FACEBOOK keeps most people occupied with their favorite dog picture. To the rest of the world, America has already collapsed…and it happened in 2008. Bush had spent trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, 9/11 destroyed the economy more, the rich guys played casino, and we could have recovered…but then the second blow, came. A radical Marxist was elected, and he put the final nail in any recovery.
We are broke…and just like Russia, we just keep printing money. Mostly to keep the rich elites in their mansions, or at least that's how it looks.
So now the tables are turned: Putin…like Reagan, sees a weak nation, with a communist sympathizer as its' President. He trumped Obama in Syria, and he has been playing his cards carefully, getting surrounding nations dependent on Russia's energy, and so, he knows it's time: He wants to reunite the old Russia.
And Nobody will stop him. Not Europe, not Obama. Nobody. Because, we just don't have the money, or the will of the American people.
What does our President do with the news? He just goes about his day…as if it's no big deal. After all, from Obama's point of view, he probably thinks he would do the very same thing as Putin.
And so the above speech was taken by us, and the rest of the world as a joke. My favorite part was when Obama said that the Ukraine people have a
"Universal right to decide their own future."
Wow, from the lips of a hypocrite. Yes, Obama stands for everything he thinks you'll fall for.
Does Obama let the America people decide their own future? Hell no. These are just platitudes that he doesn't believe in. Obama has almost complete control over the media, with just FOX and talk radio holding him to account, (which he recently tried to take over with the FCC) and he has managed to make all Americans who do not want to become Russia, or communist, look like uncaring, unfeeling and backwards fools.
He's too busy destroying America to worry about Russia. He truly is Putin's best friend.
On George Stephanopoulos today, the communist Van Jones, (who was working for Obama before he lost his job thanks to Glenn Beck) could not stop attacking the tea party and how it's backward, and weak. Almost the whole hour was spent on attacking Americans. Russia didn't get much attention.
But…Russia is rising.
It's very obvious, that the rest of the world has already seen America, as no longer on the world stage. Even Britain ignored Obama when he wanted their help on Syria.
Yes, it's a secret…kept from the American people daily, Why we have global warming to worry about. Snow is everywhere.
America cannot stand up to Russia, or anybody anymore. We have left, like Russia before us, Iraq and Afghanistan in defeat. (Not our men, our leaders) Trillions spent for nothing. Good men and women lost forever.
A waste.
Simply because both Bush and Obama were afraid to look…mean. They cared more about their appearances in history, (and their global corporate connections) than the survival of the country.
Both should be tried for treason, but that's just my opinion.
Whether our politicians did this on purpose, or if they were just too busy watching their portfolios it hardly matters now.
Can America come back? Sure. Anything is possible. Russia, like America, has an older population, but he has the clear advantage because his army will not be filled with gays, pregnant women, and held to impossible directions to not "hurt the enemy."
When the communist that is your enemy starts looking more like a leader than the communist leader of your own country, then your ass truly is in deep water.
Nobody's Email: Hey there nobodies– Buy 'Made in the USA'!
Nobody Gets Email
Here's something I don't think about much, I admit. When I go shopping I'm usually in such a rush I don't bother to take the time to read the labels. Maybe we should demand "Made in the USA" to be included on all our products. After reading this reminder, I'm going to start checking.
(Thanks to my liberal friend, JR)
ACE HARDWARE–Made in the USA
Costco sells Goodyear wiper blades for almost half the price that you will pay on the outside and they are made in the U.S.A.
Unfortunately our politicians and top CEO's (GE etc.( have pushed for trade to China and Mexico for years so Americans are now out of work. Did you know that there is no electric coffee maker made in the US and that the only kitchen appliances made in the U.S. is Viking?
I didn't know Hallmark Cards were made in China! That is also why I don't buy cards at Hallmark anymore, they are made in China and more expensive. I buy them at the Dollar Tree-50 cents and each made in the USA.
I have been looking at the blenders available on the internet. Kitchen Aid is made in the US. Top of my list already.
Yesterday I was in Wal Mart looking for a wastebasket. I found some made in China for $6.99. I didn't want to pay that much so I asked the lady if they had any others. She took me to another department and they had some at $2.50 made in the USA. They are just as good. Same as a kitchen rug I needed. I had to look, but I found some made in the USA and they were $3.00 cheaper.
We are being brainwashed to believe that everything that comes from China and Mexico is cheaper. Not so. I was Lowe's the other day and just out of curiosity, I looked at hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in the USA.
Start looking people. In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else–most often their job.
My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed though that it is now marked "made in Mexico." I don't buy it anymore.
My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico. Now I have switched to Crest.
You have to read the labels.
This past weekend I was at Kroger…I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to GE brand I normally buy, was an off-brand labeled "Everyday Value." I picked up both types of bulbs and compared them: they were the same except for the price….
The GE cost more than the Everyday Value that are made right here.
So on to the next aisle, Bounce Dryer Sheets. Yes, you guessed it. Bounce costs more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand costs much less and is made in the USA. I did laundry yesterday AND the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years, at almost half the price.
MY CHALLENGE TO YOU Is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA. The job you save may be your won or your neighbor's!
If you accept the challenge pass this on to OTHERS in your address Book so we can ALL start buying American, one light bulb at a time!
Stop buying from overseas companies–you're sending the jobs there. We should have awakened a decade ago.
Let's get with the program and help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the USA.
Obama Was Promoted ALL over the World: Who Knew? Not us.
Nobody Wonders
I found these pictures by chance today, and I was taken aback because here in America we did not see ONE of these images on our cable networks anywhere. Evidently they were posted by the Atlantic right after Obama won the 2012 election, but what is shocking is that someone in the 'leftist' party was promoting the Obama presidency all over the world, not just here in the United States. Evidently the communists. If Mitt Romney had the same thing going on, I would have been just as shocked. Cities all over the world, had Obama tee-shirts, and Obama parties, and just WHO was promoting this?
Nobody Remembers The International Bankers and the Fly
Nobody Remembers
Although it's not much, Obama has done one very good thing while in office: He has trashed the Constitution so much, that millions of people, who had never read the Constitution, actually started paying attention to our nation's "rule of law' and then exclaiming…"Whoa. He can't do that."
Yes he can, and yes he does. Coming up soon, Obama is about to unconstitutionally sign the next globalist wet dream: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership:
The measure would grant President Obama what is known as "fast track authority" to ram through Congress the Trans-Pacific Partnership with limited debate and no opportunity to propose amendments. The international trade agreement, negotiated largely in secret by the Obama administration, is regarded by globalist free traders as a cornerstone of the emerging "New World Order." Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TAP, to what is being developed as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP.
The little American nobody businessman is now simply an asterisk on the butt of a fly, sitting on a rock, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
As I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today, I must admit, I'm happy that he is siding with the people against the Rino's in the Republican Party at last..because to not do so would be to admit that he does not side with the Constitution. BUT…Rush still thinks the Rino's just want to stay in power and are silent because they want to be liked. Because Rush is rich himself, and has supported the big businesses of corporate America for so many years, he has trouble seeing the real problem—- Crony Capitalism —which is just another word for globalization. Mark Levine sees it. Rush hasn't gotten there yet.
Isn't it usually, all about the money?
During a visit to Britain in 1763, Benjamin Franklin said this to the officials of the Bank of England:
"In the colonies, we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producer to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one. The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hand of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary war. "
Benjamin was right. But…the old nemesis of John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, got us back in with the international bankers. And you don't want to mess with the international bankers. If you bring a stick to the fight, they will bring a thousand stealth bombers, loaded with the latest intergalactic planetary death rays.
Case in Point: Abraham Lincoln enraged the Europeans international bankers by abolishing the country's central bank. In 1862 he issued about $450 million in currency printed with green ink and they were called green backs. It was debt free fiat money. (Assassinated)
Case in Point: Hitler, did the same thing. He did not borrow from the international bankers and he issued his own debt free money, and put the Germans back to work. Within three years, Germany became an economic powerhouse—and this after the horrible depression they had gone through after the first war.
In Mein Kempt he said this:
"The fight against international finance and loan capital has become the most important point in the program of the German national fight for its independence and freedom. "
And then Winston Churchill said this:
"You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism but against the economic strength of the German people— which must be smashed. "
(Just pointing out some similarities here…Hitler was a monster, too bad all the assassination attempts did not succeed.)
Case in Point: John F. Kennedy issued $4.2 billion in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the Federal Reserve system in 1963. He then took steps to redirect the foreign investment of U.S. Companies. He wanted tax reform eliminating the tax privileges of US based global investment companies, and he wanted to crack down on foreign tax havens. (assassinated)
Americans have bailed out whole countries to save banks. In 2008, George W. Bush saved the banks. Obama did it again….(he still doing it)
Internet commentator Michael Rivero had this to say about the bailouts :
"In short the US government took your jobs, so the banks could take your homes to cover the losses from this gigantic swindle they were caught playing on the whole world. It is wealth confiscation to protect the banks, just like FDR did in 1933 with the gold."
No one was punished.
Not all Presidents wanted to jump in with the globalists international bankers. President James a Garfield, said this in 1881.
"Whoever controls the volumes of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled one way or another, by a few powerful met at the top you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. (He was assassinated…two weeks later)
It's never spoken about by our politicians. We print money to keep the stock market up and the rich making dividends while taking money from the middle class and passing it around to the poor. The plan has been to put all the inventions, the patents, the control, into the big multinational corporations. They now control the majority in Congress and Presidents, who only have to look at history to behave themselves.
Obama will continue the international bankers dream of a New World Order and they will keep us thinking that someday, somehow, the politicians in Washington will truly help that little fly at the bottom of the grand canyon.
So…as Nancy Pelosi says, 'Embrace the suck'…Which in Nancy Pelosi's mind is the same as "Bend over America—here comes the rest of the suck and you're going to like it! "
Can the poor little nobody fly sitting on a rock, battle the great international arsenal of wealth?
Goldman Sachs Agrees With Obama…Can I have my money back?
Nobody's Opinion
This week, the fight is clear: It's the globalists against the American people. And the globalists include both parties.
Here's something that I wish someone would point out: Obama, and his democrats are just as involved and working for the Fed and Wall Street as the Republicans, and nobody ever, ever, ever brings this up.
As you see in the above video, the President of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein (How's THAT for a Wall Street name?) basically blames the whole dysfunction of the government on the tea party. No, he doesn't say tea party, but he accuses them of wanting to default, and destroy the world. So does Christine Legarde of the IMF.
"But we say slow down because the point is not to contract the economy by slashing spending brutally now as recovery is picking up."
What? It's only picking up on Wall Street, because since the 2008 crash, the men on Wall Street have tripled their investments, thanks to the poor guy on mainstreet.
Nevertheless….here's a top Wall Street King, who is fighting on the side of 'President' Obama, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, and Harry Reid. They are complaining about the "people' trying to hold on to whatever power they can. Now, normal, family-loving, country-loving, conservative people are considered radicals by the globalists. We…are the enemy.
One thing that is good coming out of all of this fight in Washington is now we are seeing very clearly, who the American people's enemies actually are, and they are many.
To me, it's much simpler: There are the globalists, who are basically fascists and could care less about the American people, and then there are the politicians who really care about America.
That's why they hate Ted Cruz. Basically, with the help of only a few people, he has singlehandedly brought the American people back to the table of Congress…and Congress doesn't like it one bit.
Boehner is in a hard place. If he gives into Obama, the Republican party is gone. The reason John McCain and Romney lost is because they weren't Conservatives. If they run Jeb Bush, he will lose. There are simply not enough 'independents' to vote them in.
People will be hurting so badly with Obamacare they will blame the Republicans for not getting rid of it….so, he has to depend on the Senate to do all the dealing, and that's Mitch.
There's only one problem here: Our government really is broke. And it's not the Tea Party that committed that crime.
Fareed Zakaria's essay today was all about how Obama missed the all important meeting in Asia all because of the tea party people, and therefore China got all the big money deals. All I've heard from the CEO's on TV and all the democratic pundits for decades is, 'Why oh why can't we be like China?"
Frankly, I wish every S-n of a &$^$& I've heard say that, would get off my TV and go live there.
Nobody Thinks—our big multinational companies which own our Congress…want Obamacare, and they want a strong leader at the top, who they can control, so they can compete with China. Congress is just messing up their day. It's time consuming, and they have to WAIT whenever they have a request.
Not in China. They don't have to bribe 535 people, just two or three. And that's what they want here.
Who does Obama work for? He works for men like Lloyd Blankfein, and George Soros. And so did George W. Bush. And yet, every Wall Street Occupy gooney thinks all of Wall Street works for Republicans.
We did not need to bail out Wall Street. Even the liberal Vanity Fair admits huge crimes were committed by the bankers. Those people should lhave spent years in jail…where they could have gotten along very well with two other criminals who helped set that whole housing bubble up: Barney Frank and Bill Clinton. The stimulus money was stolen from the American people.
There is no money in Social Security now…just IOU's. When the fines start rolling in from Obamacare, you can bet, all that money will be used for some other reason.
Why should anything be different? They just want more money. And as Margaret Thatcher once said, "The trouble with socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
And that's what happened in Poland. Just recently, Poland went into their own people's pension accounts and stole half of their people's retirement money. Obama has his eye on that option. And maybe this whole debt ceiling thing would give him just enough chaos for him to pull it off.
China, is already chopping at the bit, not because of the tea party, but because Obama is President. China said this at their Asian summit.
"As US politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanised world,"
And here's the dirty little secret: that's exactly what Obama is doing.
Nobody Asks: Who EXACTLY–Benefits from Wars in the Middle East?
Nobody Knows
Nobody Knows just why Obama and the Rino's are crying out for war with Syria. Everybody that I read is pretty much guessing that it's all to save Obama from his own big mouth. But Nobody Thinks we should ask the very old but very sensible question: Who benefits? It's blatantly obvious that the United States citizens, would be hurt. We don't have the money or the will to fight another senseless war in the Middle East—-but how about our elites?
What are they getting out of this?
Nobody Knows and wonders—-what and IF some of our entranced Senators and Presidents get some personal money out of this from…big corporations, or even worse…other countries?
Nobody Knows…how influential big corporations and Saudi money are in calling the shots in Washington D.C. It seems, every politician in Washington is controlled and by big wads of money. P.J. O'Rourke was right when he said we have a Parliament of Whores. Nobody Wonders if we can also add a recent gaggle of Presidential Whores to that great title.
Let's go back to the first gulf war. Daddy Bush told us we were going over there to protect a defenseless country named Kuwait, and Saddam was a bad guy. Remember, we backed that 'bad' guy with chemical weapons, military hardware, and millions of dollars to help those poor tribal lords in Iraq fight Iran. We did the very same thing with bin Laden, in Afghanistan, to help him fight Russia
How did that turn out for us?
Daddy Bush gave our military support to those adorable Sunni sheiks in Saudi Arabia in order to protect them, and their family, and their oil with the FIRST Gulf war. Bush the elder put on a real patriotic display for…making himself look good and protecting the Sheiks. The propaganda was so good…we didn't mind much, because we still had money.
Then we had Clinton protecting the Muslims in Kosovo in THAT civil war. Remember, there was another 'bad' guy…Milosevic. Nobody Knows how necessary that was. Clinton kept away from bin Laden, refused the man nine times, because bin Laden had relatives in the Saudi family. He literally ignored the bombing of the Cole, (We will FIND the criminals who did this!) and the first bombing of the World Trade Center, which was done by the Muslim Brotherhood. Clinton airlifted Bosnian refugees over here because he felt sorry for them. He dropped 80,000 into St. Louis.
Expect more refugees from Syria to come over here because the democrats are already demanding it.
After 9.11, Bush Jr. protected the Saudi's kids and sent out planes to pick up their families here, while everybody else was grounded. Even though almost ALL of the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, Bush blamed one lone man. bin Laden, and he kept inviting those old Sheiks down to his Texas ranch, where he could give them big kisses.
Obama just has the thugs into the White House.
Who here believes that George W. Bush didn't know where bin Laden was for ten years…raise your hands.
(Okay. You there. Go back to your granola.)
Obama continued the Saudi King worship with low bows.
Are you starting to see a pattern here? Jeb Bush is about to give Hillary Clinton, the butcher enabler of Benghazi, a metal of honor. Hillary has a Muslim Brotherhood woman as her assistant and she is now the right hand man of Obama.
Tell me, when will the American people get some attention from their Presidents?
All these years, our Presidents have been protecting the Saudi's family…and we are still doing it. Iran is their biggest enemy. How nice it would be for them if we took out Syria, and then Iran?
You could say that our Presidents are doing this to keep us in oil, but we can easily get oil from other places, including our own country, and yet, we NEVER do. Our Congress AND President make damn sure we stay forever dependent on the Saudi oil.
Why? I want to know….what's in it for them?
Nobody knows, if the reason that rich people want the Presidency so badly is that the top politicians have their own very secret, and very lucrative contracts with Saudi Arabia? After all, the Saudi's and the Muslim Brotherhood are both Wahhabi. It would explain why we have a Muslim sympathize in the White House. The Saudi's could have told the Rhino's at the top, that they wanted a Muslim someday, in the Presidency. John McCain could have been in on that deal. After all, he ran to lose, it was almost too obvious.
Are our Presidents and some of our Senators on the payrolls of Saudi Kings?
Because Nobody Knows how John McCain, a decorated war veteran, could say this:
The bloodcurdling cry of "Allahu akbar" is a war cry, and is meant to "strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers." You can't tell me John McCain doesn't know that.
Nobody Knows if the Boston Mayor Menino who said when a reporter asked him what he'd do with Detroit "I'd blow up the place and start all over." if John McCain would think it was okay if the Mayor said "Thank GOD!" after he did it? (And wasn't THAT a racist statement?)
Nobody Knows why the democrats, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore helped get the network Al-Jazeera broadcasted into American homes, while in Egypt, the Muslims' Brotherhood network has been banned. Al Gore made millions, but what did Hillary get?
Nobody knows why now, Ft. Hood was treated as a work place accident. Nobody Knows why American Tea Party is higher on the FBI list as terrorist than al-Qaeda.
Are our Presidents getting paid in secret by the Saudi's to keep us at war? After all, a few top men making billions from secret payouts from foreign countries would be very hard to prove, and very easy to hide. Look how long they hid everything else? (NSA( We still don't know who killed JFK, and never will. Did FDR make a deal that American Presidents would forever more protect the Saudi Family as long as a few key people at the top of our government got big payouts? Could the Saudi Kings have insisted that payout as long as America was kept dependent on their oil?
Nobody knows, but it would sure explain the absolute absurdity of the last four President and their actions. And when you look all around you, it's the ONLY answer that explains it all.
If you think I'm nuts about this theory, ask yourself: "What have they done for YOU lately?"
Nobody Flashes: Don't Read Old Magazines
Nobody Flashes
I was throwing out an old magazine today, and it had some interesting 'fun facts' about St. Louis. (I live in a northern suburb.)
The book was published in 1998. Here's a copy of a list of employment facts for 1998:
St. Louis Largest Single Employers Ranked by Number of Employees:
More than 10,000:
1. Boeing co. /2. BJC Health system/ 3. Unity Health System /4. Schnucks Markets Inc./ 5. U.S. Air Force
This year, 2013, Boeing has lost half it's employees, and the U.S. Air Force is GONE: Schnucks market just suffered a vicious cyber attack. It's family owned. The hospitals are still standing.
5,000-9,999 Employees
1. Washington University /2. SSM Healthcare System /3. Southwestern Bell Telephone /4. Trans World Airlines/ 5. Chrysler Corp. Assembly /6. St. Louis University/ 7. May Department Store Co./ 8. St. Louis Public Schools/ 9. NationsBank/ 10. U. S. Postal Service
Washington University used to be the leader in Medical research and science. Now, most of the courses are in Social Science. The cost is $40.000 a semester. Trans World Airlines: GONE. Southwestern Bell…not exactly Apple. Chrysler is GONE. May Department Store went bankrupt, GONE. The U.S. Postal Service is on its way out. But the school system has grown by leaps and bounds.
2,000-4,999 Employees
1 General Motors Corp. Assembly /2. Anheuser Busch Companies Inc./ 3. Deaconess Incarnate World Health Systems./ 4. Olin Corp /5. At & T
General Motors Corp: GONE. Anheuser Bush was sold to an international buyer. Southwestern Bell…not exactly Apple.
The Olin corporation which makes ammunition is moving it's operation to Mississippi where there is union-free work.
So after the devastation, what is left? I have watched my city die. And I'm NOT supposed to be depressed? If you are thinking of moving to St. Louis or Detroit:…don't bother.
So, despite what Obama is telling you, the job market is gasping due to politicians. You're life choice is slim unless you go into education or Health care or fast food.
Where do you think al the new illegal's are going to get jobs?
Remembering Our Presidents
Nobody Remembers
Once again, the timing of the dedication of x-President, George W. Bush's library, couldn't have had come at a more propitious time. The nation had just been attacked by Muslim radicals, giving the Bush family a platform to remind us all, that Bush kept us safe throughout the rest of his Presidency after 9/11. And in this light, it was okay for George himself to push for another Bush in the White House: His brother, Jeb.
As I watched the former Presidents all standing, and then the speeches, I can't say that any one of them talked about what THEY had done for our country. It was all about how they, while doing the 'toughest' job in the world…changed the world, and plan to keep on doing it.
Not much about helping America. No mention of the hard times we are going through now.
I posted Jimmy Carter's speech, simply because to me, what all of the former Presidents seem to be most proud about is what they have accomplished in other countries. That's all they bragged about in all their speeches. According to the former Presidents, Bush's best legacy was his work on aids in Africa. Clinton, Carter, and Obama all mentioned it.
George W. himself continued his great theme of globalization. America's future is to spread democracy around the world. Never mind that since Bush and Obama, the trillions of American dollars spent to spread democracy around the world has not done a damn thing but strengthen more tyrants and America haters abroad, and destroyed the economy at home.
The theme of Bush's library is freedom. But…while he dreams of spreading freedom all over the world, in America, the citizens continue to lose theirs.
The Bush doctrine is that only in freedom will democracy flourish, while true and noble….it makes no sense to a religion based on anything BUT freedom. All the children of Islam are brainwashed before they start to walk. I guess Bush thinks sometime 3,000 years from now, the world's population of Muslims will decide to vote for someone who goes against everything they've learned from birth, and will thank George Bush for saving them from poverty and giving them democracy.
Frankly, I don't see it happening.
Nobody Thinks that the reason all these Presidents have to praise themselves on how what they personally did to further and help the world is because none of them have down a damn thing to help Americans. All of them are too busy helping the rest of the world. Globalization may make good speeches and wonderful ideas for American Presidents who build multi-billion dollar museums to themselves and keep their own families working forever, but they all just become another part of the 1 percent that live among the rich and famous. The Presidential museums will be the last remaining things standing if we keep on this "We will fix the world" path.
George W. Bush comes off as a very sweet and likable man, but so does Bill Clinton. But, they were paid to work for America…not to eliminate poverty all over the world because it makes them feel better about themselves. (Or helps out big corporations who want into the global markets.) We must not judge Presidents on how much we like them as people, but on what they have done for us. And let's be frank: None of them can be considered great.
So, when Bush started crying at the end of his speech— when he said the future of America will be great…a lot of us felt like crying with him. Everyone said he was crying because of all his friends. But to those watching, he was crying because America might never recover, and he knows it.
Personally, I don't think Bush is that dumb.
Instead of talking about what they have all done for America, all they could talk about is how much money they sent out to the rest of the world. It's enough to make you mad. And we still have good men dying in Afghanistan.
After the ceremony, I came across this video of Daniel Hannan, explaining how Margaret Thatcher took a dying England and brought it back to life. It's what we need here. A President that takes care of his country: FIRST.
That's what we should have heard today: George W. Bush could have brought America's strength back. Instead, he choose his own course of "saving the world."..and because he chose the wrong course, the communists, came forward.
George…you broke my heart.
You know, maybe our "Presidents" should just start building their libraries in Africa, and Iraq, and all over the world. And I apologize tonight to anyone who feels I'm too cynical about them all, because frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about any of them.
And I will spend the rest of my life, trying NOT to remember the years I spent feeling betrayed, by each and every one of them.


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Given that none of the state electricity boards (SEBs) concerned were willing to pay a higher price to either Tata's Coastal Gujarat Power Limited or Adani Power Limited whose costs were badly affected by the change in coal prices due to new Indonesian coal regulations, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission's (CERC) job was always going to be a tough one. More so since, as CERC itself recognised, the new Indonesian law could not be either considered a �force majeure� or a �change in law� as counsels for both firms argued while looking for tariff hikes. CERC rightly argued that, since the Indonesian laws did not prohibit the export of coal�only the price was raised�there was no �force majeure�; as for �change in law�, if changes in foreign laws were to be considered, there would be no end to what factors would need to be taken into account by CERC or other Indian courts.
In the event, CERC made some reasoned arguments and found that it had strong basis in the law for deciding on a compensatory tariff hike. CERC argued that since the tariffs of the power plants were reasonable, and shutting them down was the only alternative to not hiking tariffs�the Tata power plant makes annual losses of R1,800 crore right now�consumers in all states would end up either having large electricity shortages or paying much higher prices to other suppliers. Having set up the framework for why providing for compensatory tariffs was in everyone�s interest, CERC used Section 61 of the Electricity Act which lays out the principles for tariff setting and Section 79 that gives CERC the power to regulate. In a normal transaction between a buyer and seller, the act of buying tomatoes for instance, the buyer is free to walk out if the price is too high, and the seller has the option to find another buyer. In the case of utilities, however, this free-market principle does not operate. Which is why Section 61 of the Electricity Act says the CERC�s job is �safeguarding of consumers� interest and at the same time, recovery of the cost of electricity in a reasonable manner�; and that �the tariff (must) progressively reflects the cost of supply of electricity�.
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Marketing Association (IMA) announces that it has assembled an International Executive Council comprising an extraordinary group of individuals to provide vision and influence for the Internet marketing community around the world. "Our industry is expanding, crossing every continent and industry sector with unprecedented transformational change. The purpose of the International Executive Council is to better understand cultures, standards and policies as they relate to the global Internet Marketing industry," says Matthew Langie, director of product marketing, Adobe Inc. and member of the board of directors, IMA.
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Wish someone had told Pat not to put on his "stupid hat."
If Tillis is elected he'll be a yes man for "Senator No."
Trust me, Pat McCrory will eventually have his Eric Cantor moment.
Let's bury that airport bill with the coal ash.
I will not become a target at Target. I'll shop elsewhere.
Thanks Target!
Wasn't really all that noble of IKEA to raise wages. We put their furniture together.
Want to stop the influx of immigrants? Put that USA goalie on the border.
Don't like Facebook manipulation? Get off Facebook!
I-77 toll lanes are the worst idea I've heard since that bus lane on Independence Boulevard.
A $21 highway tax...I mean toll...on I-77 from a legislature adverse to tax increases?
Don't like the traffic on I-77? Then move out of the sticks!
If Boehner can sue Obama for not doing his job, can we sue Boehner for not doing his?
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Manchester newcomer's retro debut is out now on Tigersushi
"Everything will be just fine," Elliott Williams sings on "Heavy Crown," and as the post-punky pop of his debut single builds to a rapturous climax of fuzzy guitars and bubbling horns, even the perennially pessimistic may find themselves briefly convinced. Things are certainly looking up for Williams, a.k.a. Y.O.U, a Manchester singer, songwriter, and electronic producer that Tigersushi's Joakim Bouaziz recently took under his wing, and who recently signed to Play It Again Sam.
Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan recently gave "Heavy Crown" a flickering, synth-heavy remix (listen and download at XLR8R), and now Tigersushi's own DyE (so many ungoogleable names!) puts his own clubby, '80s-kissed touch to the original. Flush with side-chained synths, springy claps, and a faint wash of dissonance, it's as tough as it is wistful: synth-pop as redemption song.
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I use Debian 5.0 lenny. Whan I activated default firewall rule in ISPconfig 220.127.116.11 I can't able more to get any data via http/ftp proto (apt-get update/ apt-get install ) , ping...
I find that ISPconfig use /etc/init.d/bastille-firewall and /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg .
Where I can find how to write rule into ISPconfig3? (I need see answer in sources?)
I've run ispconfig on VPS, and can limit user root to connect any sites, except site's with updates useing:
-m owner option for iptables
For security reasons deny for php-cgi/apache/modphp access to network(for upload shell), except when client's need use external support.
Allow for chroot-ssh users upload files.
The ISPConfig firewall does not block any outgoing connections, it blocks only incomming connections. If you need a more fine grained control, you can use any other firewall you like on a ispconfig server.
How do I disable the iptables rules used by ispconfig? or how would I change them? Munin has been blocked.... on port 4949
There is no need to change any rules manually. Just add port 4949 to the port list of the firewall in the ispconfig interface.
Hi, I am new to ISPconfig and currently testing ISPconfig 3 on Debian 5.0. I would like to implement NAT between my openvpn network and internet. Where can I edit iptables firewall rules to perform this? I even duno where is the config file for iptables, which is controlled by ISPconfig firewall function. Please help! Thanks,
I think the firewall configuration is in /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg.
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the easiest channel I found on youtube is julianmather1. a lot of his tricks are for kids, but if you don't know how to perform the trick it is still "magic" 2 years ago
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the easiest channel I found on youtube is julianmather1. a lot of his tricks are for kids, but if you don't know how to perform the trick it is still "magic" 2 years ago
I love magic I'm trying to get in one of the beast magic college for witches and wizards I'm going to learnd how to becme the witch in side of me yell I'm a witch a baby one that mends I'm in the middle not share yet to become one 3 years ago
I was, in fact, a nerd at heart. Picked up card tricks and magic during middle school and can shuffle cards all too well, but now I'm unable to enjoy friendly card games. It was worth it, as a neat hobby. I still have a few good decks, in the back of the game room ;-) 6 years ago
m 7 years ago
I'm still going to the magic meetings and trying to learn what I can. I've learned a lot of tricks, mostly card tricks though. I am trying to master slight of hand lately. I bought some sponge balls and I've been trying to learn a routine with them. I also got balls for juggling so I have been trying that out. Plus praticing balloon animals. My father and I have decided to make Thursday's our practice night. We need to cement our routine and get it so that it runs real smoothly. 7 years ago
my father goes to a secret magicians meeting every week and he happened to mention to them that i am learning also. so they told him to go ahead and bring me along! so far i have gone to 2 meetings and I love it! the magicians are super nice and really talented. its amazing to watch them all practicing and trying things out. hopefully i will be able to get to their level eventually. :)
my dad also had me come and assist him at his first official childrens show. I basically just helped him set up and clean up and make balloon animals for the kids. it was fun tho and i'm definitely hooked. aside from children's shows and other stage shows, some of the guys at the meeting do table magic at a resteraunt and one of the guys does motivational workshops involving magic for schools and companies. so these are some good ideas of things i could get into myself eventually, if i really work hard and stick with this. i guess we'll see…regardless, at the least, it is proving to be an interesting and rewarding hobby. 7 years ago
I learned a couple more card tricks. i also practiced the Elmsly Count and I do that pretty decently. then i started on some simple card flourishes. i decided to start writing down the tricks in a notebook as i learn them, so i can refer to that when needed. i bought a bookbag recently so i'll be able to carry around lots of cards and small tricks so i can practice where-ever. I want to get those squishy balls for tricks and some silk scarves. i noticed that since my hands aren't man sized, i can't seem to palm a quarter. like i have big hands for a girl, but they still aren't quite big enough. i was getting discouraged about this, but then i read how some famous magician, The Great Melini or someone, had such small hands that he had to wear women's gloves. so there's hope for me yet. this weekend i looked up women's magicians too, just to see who's out there. i only found 1 female magician in NJ. i tried to look and see like what she and other female magicians do to earn their living. a lot of them do children's parties of course, some do corporate events like motivational speaches, trade shows, comedy routines, cruises, etc etc… sounds like a pretty awesome job to me! 7 years ago
my dad is going to start doing children's parties soon and he asked me if i wanted to be his assistant. so i'm really excited about this. i mean, i won't be doing much but handing him his wand and whatnot, i'm sure, but i'll get to learn the ropes. then maybe one day i can start doing my own parties. i'm also going to start buying and learning, little by little, children and adult tricks. he also does balloon animals, so maybe i can learn that too. plus i always wanted to learn to juggle so i got a kit for that which has an instructional dvd. shit, i should go get a unicycle too, hahaha… 7 years ago
My dad is an apprentice magician and he's given me the bug to learn as well. I also find it an interesting challenge cos there doesnt seem to be many female magicians. I bought a book on tricks and I've taught myself a few things. When my dad unveils new tricks, I have him teach me them as well. My only problem is that I don't have any outlet to show off new tricks and thereby practice them. My dad is a barber, specializing in kids, so he does tricks all the time to calm the kids down. I sit in a cubicle by myself all day. So I tend to forget a trick once I've learned it. I'm going to have to find a way to keep sharp. 7 years ago
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Giants top Reds 8-3, tying NLDS at 2-all
|San Francisco Giants' Angel Pagan is congratulated by third base coach Tim Flannery (1) after Pagan hit a home run in the first inning of Game 4 of the National League division baseball series against the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
CINCINNATI — Facing elimination again, the San Francisco Giants came out swinging. Got a saving relief appearance from Tim Lincecum, too.
Angel Pagan led off the game with a home run, Gregor Blanco and Pablo Sandoval connected later and the Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 on Wednesday, evening their NL division series at 2-all.
Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young winner relegated to the bullpen, also delivered. He entered in the fourth with the Giants ahead 3-2, struck out six while giving up just one run in 4 1-3 innings, and allowed his team to pull away.
The Giants can complete an unprecedented comeback today. No team has recovered from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five series by winning three on the road, according to STATS LLC.
Matt Cain, who lost the series opener and has yet to beat the Reds in three tries this season, will start Game 5 against Mat Latos.
The Giants' hitters emerged from a series-long slump and extended Cincinnati's playoff misery. The Reds haven't won a postseason game at home in 17 years.
One thing in the Reds' favor — they haven't dropped three straight at home all season.
The Reds were hoping to start ace Johnny Cueto, but had to drop him off the roster a few hours before Wednesday's first pitch because he was still bothered by a strained muscle in his right side. He won't be available if Cincinnati wins Game 5 and reaches the NL championship series.
The way the Giants have started hitting, that's now in doubt.
San Francisco managed only four runs in the first three games of the series. The Giants avoided the sweep by pulling out a 2-1 win in 10 innings on Tuesday night with the help of a passed ball and an error by third baseman Scott Rolen.
They broke out against Mike Leake, who replaced Cueto and had a rough time. Leake threw his first career complete game in San Francisco on June 29 and was 3-0 career against the Giants.
Pagan homered on his second pitch of the game. Blanco hit a two-run shot in the second. The Giants had another breakthrough in the fifth, when back-to-back doubles by Joaquin Arias and Pagan ended an 0-for-14 slump with runners in scoring position during the series.
Sandoval's two-run shot in the seventh made it 8-3, matched the Giants' season high for homers and drew loud boos from the crowd of 44,375 — the third-largest at Great American Ball Park. Fans quietly settled into their seats and used their white rally towels as lap warmers against the evening chill.
The Giants normally don't hit many homers — only 103 during the season, fewest in the majors. They're only the seventh team since 1900 to reach the playoffs after finishing last in the majors in homers.
While the offense went to work, Lincecum bailed out the bullpen.
Manager Bruce Bochy didn't hesitate to put the guys he wanted on the mound, using four pitchers in the first four innings. Lincecum got the final out in the fourth and kept going, allowing only two hits in his second relief appearance of the series.
Lincecum threw 42 strikes out of 55 pitches and even batted twice — just like a starter.
Bochy decided to go with left-hander Barry Zito over Lincecum for Game 4, choosing the better pitcher down the stretch. Zito was left off the postseason roster when San Francisco won the World Series in 2010, but finished the regular season with seven straight wins.
The left-hander lasted only 2 2-3 innings, his shortest career outing in the postseason. On came Lincecum to save the day.
The Reds finished with the second-best record in the majors at 97-65, one game behind Washington. The rotation was the foundation of their championship season, with all five starters making it through unscathed — a franchise first.
Things changed dramatically when Cueto had to leave the first inning of the playoff series opener on Saturday with the injury. The Reds made it through that game with Latos filling in for a 5-2 victory, but couldn't win without him on Wednesday.
NOTES: The Reds honored RHP Homer Bailey on the field before the game for his no-hitter in Pittsburgh on Sept. 28, presenting him and C Ryan Hanigan with framed photo montages. ... It was Zito's shortest outing since he lasted 2 1-3 innings on Aug. 29 at Houston. The Giants won it 6-4. ... San Francisco has won each of Zito's last 12 starts. ... Leake lasted 4 1-3 innings, giving up six hits and five runs. ... The Giants hit three homers in a game eight times during the regular season.
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Hession ready as acting mayor: West's departure sparks jockeying for city's top political posts/Mike Prager, Spokesman-Review
About Hession: A longtime business attorney and former Spokane Park Board member, Hession is widely viewed as a cautious deliberator not given to quick, unstudied decisions. He promised during an interview on Monday to maintain West's administrative staffing for the time being. He would have to leave his law practice and become a full-time mayor under the City Charter.
Question: Rather than put the city of Spokane through another election grind after the long West controversy, wouldn't it be a good idea now to simply make straight man Dennis Hession mayor?
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In his Weekly Dish column, Brian McKitish offers fantasy advice regarding players on the rise and on the decline after the first quarter of the season. Indiana's Paul George is trending upward while Brooklyn's Deron Williams is struggling.Story | Conversation | December 17, 2012
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Wings and Power Regained
Women of many generations have been painstakingly imbibed with notions of what a woman's role in life should be. It does not matter if a girl is showing signs of being good at fixing electrical gadgets or if she is pretty good at football, all these are mute. All that matters is that she focuses on the more important 'life skill' of learning to cook and keeping a good home. If she needs something extra to do on the side then singing or sewing will be a nice enough hobby, appalling voice and an awkward thumb notwithstanding. We do not know to dream dreams of stellar careers or a future of going places and having terrific experiences, no. We dream dreams of waiting to be endorsed in life by the opposite sex; that is the singular most important achievement dictated to us by society.
When I completed my university degree, three of my best friends were also graduating with me. They did not share my excitement at the prospect of going out to 'conquer' the world. They were disappointed, God had failed them. The four years spent acquiring a college degree had not been for career purposes, it was a prelude to marriage. They had hoped to move from school to their husbands' homes, maybe a career would follow, maybe not, to them it was totally the man's call. The pressure on them was particularly heightened because their mothers would occasionally seat them down to ask not how good their grades were doing, but how well they were doing in finding husbands. And they were only in their early 20's. I would be the first to agree that marriage and committing to someone could be a beautiful thing, but allowing men and the process of getting there to define our existence is just sad. We seem to have lost our wings.
How can change be cultivated when decades have been invested in meticulously ingraining in women the perception of whom or what should make us happy? How can we erase generations of distorted views on what defines the African woman? How can we work to ensure that women begin to become receptive to the new wave of awareness and to taking their lives back as independents?
Global reorientation and behavioral change communication holds the key to unlocking our wings. Online platforms like World Pulse pose possible solutions. These online communities will serve for me a universal safe house and school for women from all works of life who are lugging behind years of experiences; good and bad. On these platforms will we learn the other sides to life and womanhood. Women everywhere will begin to realize that we have a choice, that we can be happy without having the opposite sex entirely dictate us. We will begin to see the unlimited possibilities that life and the world holds and be ready and willingly to reach far and beyond. Virtual communities empower me to give women their wings back.
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Nice piece.
It's funny how we ladies from Nigeria tell almost the same story. I used to feel like I was the only one refusing to compromise. Good to find that we are not alone.
If we keep speaking up we can effect a change of mindset maybe not in the men but in our fellow women who feel they have no other choice than to succumb to societal pressure.
It is my belief that women can do more than just be "submissive wives". We can play more than one role in society and still not lose our "womaness".
We only just need to tell ourselves that and keep encouraging each other.
Keep up the good work.
Athena is a good name
And she would say YES! YES! YES! to your article. It was as if the winged goddess were speaking directly through you, reminding women of their power and strength and how absolutely necessary it is at this time for women to stand in their power and change the world. There is nothing I believe that can hold you back from anything.
You inspire me
It is reading articles like yours that fuel my drive for equality, and the opportunity for every woman, worldwide, to soar with the gifts and skills she has! I really love how honest and straight forward you were in this piece, the first hand experience you provided, and positive outlook. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you!
Hi Athena,
Thank you for sharing! While your story is personal and discusses your experience in Nigeria, at the same time, it feels like it hits at the root of what many women in many societies experience, including myself. The need to fit that mould, handed down to us in speech, behaviour, customs, etc., of 'woman' feels so ingrained sometimes...and it's sad that it does because it is so limiting. We are all more than what we have been told to be by our societies.
Best wishes,
Emily Garcia
World Pulse Online Community Lead


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