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In a much-touted op-ed over the weekend, the NYT editorial board calls for the legalization of marijuana. "We recognize that this Congress is as unlikely to take action on marijuana as it has been on other big issues. But it is long past time to repeal this version of Prohibition."
Well, I'm glad to see the NYT come down on this side of the ledger, and I appreciate them emphasizing the Prohibition angle. But their week-long Come-to-Jesus stance on this would be more impressive if they actually put action to words and stopped testing their employees for weed usage.
There's also a strong and somewhat irritating element of Captain Obvious here. As Gawker's Hamilton Nolan well put it:
"This is something that has been clear to the majority of American high school students for the past forty years. The fact that it took our nation's paper of record this long to catch up does not inspire confidence. The only reason the Times gets attention for expressing this opinion is because it is the Times. This is not thought leadership. It is thought following. The Times' endorsement of legal weed is remarkable not because we look to the Times for new or thought-provoking opinions, but because the Times is such a self-conscious, careerist, and cautious institution that if they want to legalize drugs, you know that shit is really mainstream now…
I do not say this to scold the newspaper for its position. Drug legalization is an issue that can use all the support it can get. I say it to kindly suggest that the New York Times editorial board — and all of the 'serious' mainstream media 'thought leaders' that define the boundaries of discourse acceptable on Sunday talk shows — ease back a wee bit on the self-importance. You're not defining the times. You're behind the times."
Aaaannnd speaking of those "serious" mainstream media thought leaders, several of them aren't quite on board yet anyway: "MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said at the time he didn't 'get the legalization thing' and offered a pithy defense of prohibition. 'Pot just makes you dumb,' he said. Former Newsweek/Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown said that 'legal weed' will make the United States 'a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the Chinese.'"
Er…first off, Scarborough better hope, for his own sake, that we don't exhaust our domestic reservoirs of dumb anytime soon, or he and his morning ilk are out of job. I was going to post a longer retort to this ridiculous pundit kvetching — which could only really come from deeply privileged people who'd never, ever have to worry about being arrested for weed — but Wonkette's Kaili Joy Gray has already done the heavy lifting:
"[E]ven if pot makes you fat and stupid, so does watching Fox 'News' and eating Big Macs, but last time I checked, none of these Very Serious People were on the Sunday shows pearl-clutching about that. Also…recall that Michael Phelps has been known to take hits from the bong, and he's the fastest swimming motherf**ker on the planet, and he is not fat or dumb and can compete with the Chinese just fine, thanks, and he has eleventeen trillion gold medals to prove it, so, you know. There's that." What she said.
Upon the release of the abovementioned report, the WP's Emily Badger gives a concise overview of our country's unhealthy addiction to incarceration (white collar criminals notwithstanding, of course.) "The 'war on drugs'…also ensured that drug crimes received more attention from police and harsher punishment in courtrooms…As a result, between 1980 and 2010, the incarceration rate for drug crimes increased tenfold."
A day before the big show, Joshua Keating's consistently funny If It Happened There column at Slate looked at the State of the Union. "Members of the opposition typically do not applaud, though they occasionally join in with approval of paeans to the nation's powerful military, the leaders of which typically sit stone-faced in front of the gallery."
Which, of course, is exactly what happened. There are innumerable things Congress could be doing right now to create jobs, spur opportunity, expand the frontiers of knowledge, and generally make life better for families in America. Some of them — raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay for women, investing in infrastructure and early childhood education, admitting climate change is happening and proceeding accordingly — were even mentioned in Obama's remarks, not that we can expect much in Year Six of this presidency (and an election year to boot.)
But with all due respect to Sgt. Remsburg's sacrifice, when the only thing all of our nation's legislators can get effusive about is venerating Americans wounded in battle, the republic is in a bad way indeed. As James Fallows put it: "[W]hile that moment reflected limitless credit on Sgt. Remsburg…I don't think the sustained ovation reflected well on the America of 2014…the spectacle should make most Americans uneasy." That it should – The last refuge of scoundrels and all that.
ICYMI, If It Happened There has aptly covered the Superbowl also. "The ethics of such an event can be hard for outsiders to understand. Fans, who regularly watch players being carted off the field with crippling injuries, are unbothered by reports of the game's lasting medical impact on its players. Nevertheless, fans and the national media can become extremely indignant if players are excessively boastful at the game's conclusion."
Speaking of the handegg finals — as usual, also not lacking for tawdry paeans to militarism — congrats to the Seahawks on a convincing Superbowl XLVIII win. As I said on Twitter, I had no real dog in this fight – I was just happy to see the two states with sane marijuana laws karmically rewarded for their forward thinking.
As a follow-up to this post, Gallup finds that support for legalizing marijuana has shot up to 58%, following a similar pattern as gay marriage in recent years. Again, if they want to mitigate the usual midterm electorate problem, Dems should follow the Rove playbook on this, and get weed on the 2014 ballots ASAP.
Yet another for the Hope-and-Change file: Obama's DOJ urges the Courts to keep prisoners convicted under outdated sentencing requirements in jail, because…because…well, it's hard to fathom, really. "For several years, federal judges have done nothing to remedy this injustice; one famously concluded that the prisoners sentenced under the old law had simply 'lost on a temporal roll of the cosmic dice". So, there are American citizens serving tens of thousands of years in prison because, according to all three branches of government, it's just their tough luck?"
If you're keeping score at home, folks, Obama's Department of Justice has basically said at this point that whistleblowers and non-violent drug offenders should get the book thrown at them, but economy-toppling banksters and torturers should walk free. Yessir, they're really speaking truth-to-power over at DOJ these days. What a courageous bunch.
In The Guardian Jill Filipovic examines the national shame that is our private prison-industrial complex. "Imprisoning that many people, most of them for non-violent offenses, doesn't come cheap, especially when you're paying private contractors…who are doing quite well living off of American corporate welfare -– at the expense of the American taxpayer." $50 billion a year — that funds a lot of stadium.
This article was found, by the way, in Slate's discussion of Sesame Street's new incarceration kit, which helps explain to 3-8-year-olds that their parent has gone to jail. "That this even has to exist in the first place shows how much pointless damage our prison system does not just to people who are caught up in the overly punitive, often racially biased justice system, but also to their families."
It'd be nice to say this fiasco is on the national agenda, but, Jim Webb's efforts in 2009 and some green shoots earlier in the year notwithstanding, Congress and the Obama administration, for all their talk of belt-tightening, seem pretty content with this ridiculous status quo. (One key reason: felons can't vote.) But, hey, you know who they still don't put in jail these days? Wolves of Wall Street. So there's that.
More fruits from Californication: With public support for legalizing marijuana over 50% for the first time, and a new documentary, The House I Live In, once again calling attention to the many cruel absurdities of the Drug War — $1 trillion spent, 2.2 million in prison — signs suggest the ill-advised War on Drugs may finally be receding as a sacrosanct institution in Washington.
"For decades, the politics of the drug war were straightforward: Being tough could help at the polls and came with no political downside; being open to reform had few advantages, but would be used against a candidate on the campaign trail. That calculation is no longer so simple."
Our culture veers even closer to self-parody upon the news that Florida Atlantic University will name its stadium after a private prison conglomerate. "GEO Group reported revenues in excess of $1.6 billion in 2011, income generated mostly from state and federal prisons and detention centers for illegal immigrants."
What the?! Honestly, how shameful is it that we ostensible lovers of freedom — mainly on account of our ridiculous incarceration rates (for anything other than white-collar crimes) — not only have a private, for-profit prison industry flourishing in our country — one that routinely maintains substandard prisons and undercuts workers' wages by outsourcing their captive labor force — but that we're sufficiently unembarrassed about it to start naming stadiums after them? Pathetic.
Update: FAU students make their displeasure known.
I saw this a few weeks ago, and Follow me Here reminded me of it: As we pass the fortieth anniversary of the failed war on drugs, Wire creator David Simon makes a deal with Attorney General Eric Holder: End the drug war for a Wire season six. As if there weren't already enough good reasons to do so, S6 would be the cherry on top.
I've been meaning to blog this for a few days, via Genehack: After the show is harangued by Baltimore's current police commissioner, the consistently take-no-guff David Simon sticks up for his creation, The Wire. "As citizens using a fictional narrative as a means of arguing different priorities or policies, those who created and worked on The Wire have dissented."
Oh yes, it is: Delving into the exit poll numbers for California, Robert Cruickshank points out how the GOP have staked their territory on ground that is fast eroding. "[T]here's really no evidence that the 2010 election portends long-term doom for Democrats. Instead it is Republicans who are in trouble. They won by appealing to a shrinking group of people who are determined to hog democracy and prosperity for themselves at the exclusion of the young and the nonwhite." In other words, demography is destiny, and, when it comes to the GOP, to paraphrase the Peppers, even a tidal wave can't save them all from Californication.
Speaking of Golden State politics: Unfortunately, Prop 19, which decriminalized marijuana usage, also went down to defeat. (A victim of the older midterm electorate, it still pulled more votes than any Republican in the state.) That being said, the die has been cast now — it's only a matter of time. "'There's a fair amount of latent support for legalization in California,' said Anna Greenberg…'It is our view, looking at this research, that if indeed legalization goes on ballot in 2012 in California, that it is poised to win."
"Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did, and California may now be pioneering a saner approach." In very related news, the NYT's Nick Kristof makes a case for Prop 19. "One advantage of our federal system is that when we have a failed policy, we can grope for improvements by experimenting at the state level. I hope California will lead the way on Tuesday by legalizing marijuana." (Note also the example of Portugal, as studied by Glenn Greenwald.)
"'There are only two possibilities here,' Mr. Webb said in introducing his bill, noting that America imprisons so many more people than other countries. 'Either we have the most evil people on earth living in the United States, or we are doing something dramatically wrong in terms of how we approach the issue of criminal justice.'"
In his latest column, the NYT's Nicholas Kristof makes the case anew for comprehensive criminal justice reform. "[O]ver all, in a time of limited resources, we're overinvesting in prisons and underinvesting in schools. Indeed, education spending may reduce the need for incarceration…Above all, it's time for a rethink of our drug policy." (Via Sententiae.)
"Having fought the war on drugs, we know that ending the drug war is the right thing to do — for all of us, especially taxpayers." In the WP, two longtime Baltimore cops once again lay out the case for drug decriminalization. "Legalization would not create a drug free-for-all. In fact, regulation reins in the mess we already have. If prohibition decreased drug use and drug arrests acted as a deterrent, America would not lead the world in illegal drug use and incarceration for drug crimes." See also: Prohibition.
"'The commission could be the most ambitious attempt to re-examine and reform the criminal justice system since the 1960s,' said Mark Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit group that supports reducing incarceration rates. 'It is a huge undertaking,' he said." As he promised a few months ago, Sen. Jim Webb begins the push for a bipartisan commission on prison reform. (Webb's effort drew particular kudos from Salon's Glenn Greenwald this morning.)
Speaking of which, count me among the many (like Greenwald) who found Obama's glib answer on drug decriminalization during the online town hall the other day to be too smug and snickering by half. People are spending their lives in prison for basically harmless behavior that he — and countless other tsk-tsking political elites — engaged in. That's not really something to chuckle about.
That being said, it's obvious that, with everything else going on, Obama has nowhere near the political capital he would need to deal with this sort of thing right now, even if he does possess the inclination. But, Webb's proposed commission might be exactly the sort of body that could grant Obama the cover he needs to get serious about drug and prison reform. In fact, other than punting on a popular issue like social security, which prison reform emphatically isn't, that's pretty much the sole purpose of a bipartisan commission.
Update: In very related news, NY Gov. David Paterson announces a deal has been struck to soften NY's draconian Rockefeller drug laws and get rid of many mandatory minimums. "'Since 1973, New York has had the harshest drug laws in the country, and they have simply not worked,' Paterson said Friday in a radio interview."
"'I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility,' Clinton told reporters accompanying her to Mexico City a day after the Obama administration said it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the Southwestern frontier and help Mexico battle the cartels." During a visit to our ailing neighbor, Secretary of State Clinton admits American culpability in the exacerbating of Mexico's drug war. "'Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,' she said. 'Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians… Clearly, what we have been doing has not worked and it is unfair for our incapacity… to be creating a situation where people are holding the Mexican government and people responsible,' she said.'That's not right.'"
Well, cheers to Sec. Clinton for being honest about some of the causes of Mexico's escalating drug violence. Still, in pledging tighter borders, more troops, yadda yadda yadda, she and the administration are still dancing around one of the more obvious solutions to the problem.
"Marijuana is California's largest cash crop. It's valued at $14 billion annually, or nearly twice the value of the state's grape and vegetable crops combined, according to government statistics…But the state doesn't receive any revenue from its cash cow. Instead, it spends billions of dollars enforcing laws pegged at shutting down the industry and inhibiting marijuana's adherents." Also in Slate: In the wake of California's money troubles, Daniel Gross makes the economic case for marijuana decriminalization.
"So what are the numbers? A national legalization effort would save nearly $13 billion annually in enforcement costs and bring in $7 billion in yearly tax revenues, according to a study by Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron…That doesn't include any indirect revenues as, for example, rural farming communities grow or marijuana tourism, which has been lucrative for the Netherlands, takes off."
The obvious economic benefits aside, it's well nigh time to establish a sane drug policy in this country. And weed in particular is an easy call. We haven't had a drug-free American president since 1992 (at best), and yet we still pretend that a goofball like Michael Phelps ripping bong hits is some sort of egregious sin? Time to grow up, people.
"I think you can be a law-and-order leader and still understand that the criminal justice system as we understand it today is broken, unfair, locking up the wrong people in many cases and not locking up the right person in many cases." In an auspicious sign for 2009, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) announces he'll be taking at stab at criminal justice and prison reform in the coming year. "Webb aims much of his criticism at enforcement efforts that he says too often target low-level drug offenders and parole violators, rather than those who perpetrate violence, such as gang members. He also blames policies that strip felons of citizenship rights and can hinder their chances of finding a job after release."
It sounds like he's on the right track, and bully to Sen. Webb for even taking this issue — normally not one that brings in the votes — on. (Let's hope Webb knows his Wire.)
Of course, a lot of headway could be made if we just started taking a saner approach to drugs in this country, i.e. unclogging the justice system of non-violent drug offenders and doing away with mandatory minimums. From there, I hope Sen. Webb sets his sights on the shameful and grotesque private, for-profit prison industry that has sprouted here in America. I for one believe running an unsafe, substandard prison and getting rich by outsourcing your supply of "captive" laborers to corporations that don't want to pay market wages is much more immoral and criminal behavior than getting high in some fashion and being unlucky (and/or black) enough to get caught. And I don't think I'm in the minority in this assessment anymore.
"The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated, and I am sorry for it." Clinton consigliere and inveterate torturer of reason Mark Penn gets into trouble for playing both sides of a Colombian trade deal, is forced to apologize, and subsequently gets sacked by the nation in question. If only Sen. Clinton had followed Colombia's example months ago, she might still have a shot at the presidency right now.
In related news, Al Giordano of Rural Votes explains why Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is rooting against Obama, and why that speaks strongly in the Illinois Senator's favor. "The Uribe regime, after all, continues a chummy friendship with Bill Clinton, granting him the government's 'Colombia Is Passion' Award last June. That, during the same 2007 spring when former vice president Al Gore cancelled his appearance at a Miami environmental conference because he did not want to share a podium with Uribe, the hemisphere's poster boy for state-sponsored terrorism, narco-trafficking, and assassinations of opposition political, labor and social movement leaders."


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It's finally here. This was a series that had fans, connoisseurs, observers and neutrals alike agog with anticipation. The wait seemed interminable when South Africa came to India in the early part of the year and left with a score-line of 1-1. Who was the superior side? It was difficult to tell. Both teams dominated the Tests they won, both sets of fans were left wanting more. At that time, it seemed sheer lunacy that a series between the Number 1 and Number 2 sides should comprise only 2 Tests, and there was talk of the ODIs being a waste of time until Sachin Tendulkar went out and scored 200 not out. While that may have diverted attention from a Test series that seemed only half-done, we can now get back to the business of deciding who most deserves the crown of the Number One team in Test matches. History seems to favour South Africa - especially when they play at home - but then, history had also suggested that no one would breach the double century mark in ODIs. It has been a marked trait in the Indian team of this decade that history has been politely discarded and re-written. To start with the obvious, at the outset, the series looks too close to call. In South African conditions who would you pick amongst Smith, Peterson, Amla, Kallis, AB de Villiers, Prince and Gambhir, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman, Raina? If Indian fans say Sehwag and Gambhir have been the most statistially imposing opening pair, South African ones will point to the fact that they haven't been tested in South African conditions while Smith and Peterson have excelled there. If Rahul Dravid is amongst the greatest batsmen in the history of the game, his declining form has been in contrast to Hashim Amla's currently insatiable appetite for runs. If Sachin Tendulkar is the modern master, Jacques Kallis is not too far behind, and has better stats in South Africa. If VVS Laxman has perfected the art of conjuring victories out of nothing, AB de Villiers is amongst the brightest talents that world cricket has seen. India's bowling could have been thought of as a weak link, but both Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma have hit their straps beautifully in recent outings and the troika of Zaheer, Ishant and Sreesanth does not suffer too much in comparison to Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Tsotsobe. India can point to Virender Sehwag as the X-factor in their batting who can turn a match in a session; South Africa can do the same with Dale Steyn in their bowling. Just like Sehwag gives India something no other side has in international cricket, so too Steyn gives South Africa the fire-power no other fast bowler has. Their clash at the top of the order is just one among the many mouth-watering ones that are lined up in this most awaited of series. The one thing India must guard against though, to ensure that the competition stays even, is injury. India's prime focus must be to keep the trio of Zaheer, Ishant and Sreesanth fully fit and functioning through the length of the series. There isn't much back-up to speak of, if one of the three has to sit out, or misplaces his bowling radar. While batting, there is the vastly talented Cheteshwar Pujara alongwith Murali Vijay, and though they might not be in the same league as men they could replace, they are decent back-ups to have. It is the bowlers then, that India must wrap in cotton-wool if necessary. Not that South Africa can simply shrug off injuries to any of their key men in the starting eleven. Dale Steyn may be in a fast-bowling league all of his own, but even if Morne Morkel has a niggle, South Africa will be mighty uncomfortable. The term 'marquee' series is bandied about rather freely in an age when every advertiser and television channel is out to grab their 15 minutes of fame, but for this one, it sits well. Over the years, the Ashes have produced outstanding classics, in the last decade and a half, India and Australia have fought each other to the brink, but the two sides who are undoubtedly the best in the business as of today are India and South Africa, and it is fitting that the last time the term 'marquee series' is used this year, will be for one involving these two teams.
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3 Clips and 13 Minutes of Behind-the-Scenes Footage for WARM BODIES Starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer
by Matt Goldberg Posted 1 year, 345 days ago
Summit Entertainment has released three clips and 13 minutes of B-roll for Jonathan Levine's rom-zom-com, Warm Bodies. The film centers on R (Nicholas Hoult), a zombie who falls in love with Julie (Teresa Palmer) after eating her boyfriend's brains. I haven't watched the clips or the footage since I want to go in having seen as little of the movie as possible. Warm Bodies is one of my most-anticipated movies of the next three months, and I want to be surprised. However, if you still need to be sold on the flick, then you might want to see the new material.
Hit the jump to check out the clips and the B-roll. The film also stars Rob Corddry and John Malkovich. Warm Bodies opens February 1st. Click on the corresponding links to read about my visit to the set and my interviews with Levine, Hoult, Palmer, Corddry, and producer Bruna Papandrea.


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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday allowed market entities to verify the permanent account number (PAN) of qualified foreign investors (QFIs) through the Income Tax (I-T) department's website, as against the current practice of asking for their original PAN card.
The move will ease the process of obtaining PAN card details from QFIs but they will have to give on alternative identity proof.
A QFI investor is an individual, group or association resident in a foreign country that is compliant with the Financial Action Task Force standards. QFIs do not include foreign institutional investors (FIIs) / sub-accounts.
"With a view to bring about operational flexibility and in order to ease the PAN verification process, the intermediaries may verify the PAN of their clients online at the income tax website without insisting on the original PAN card, provided that the client has presented a document for proof of identity other than the PAN card," Sebi said in a circular.
Individual foreign investors and trusts that invest directly in the capital markets need to acquire a PAN, a mandatory requirement for all tax payers.
The circular has been sent to stock brokers, depository participants, mutual funds, portfolio managers, KYC registration agencies, alternative investment funds and collective investment schemes, among others.
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text: New HIV PSA Should End with Big Thanks to 'Evil' Drug Companies by Greg Gutfeld 15 Dec 2010 post a comment Share This: So last night, during another wretched episode of Fashion Show (imagine a bloated half-sister of Project Runway), I came across a new anti-HIV Ad. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's message was simple: "when you get HIV, it's never just HIV." Now, some gay groups want the ad pulled because they feel graphic warnings about unprotected sex "could further stigmatize.. gay and bisexual men." And the chuckleheads at GLAAD, of course, says it "misses the mark in fairly and accurately representing what it's like to live with HIV/AIDS." Which wasn't the ad's point, but check it out for yourselves. ----- At first, this ad bugged me. I mean, shouldn't the fear of AIDS be enough to keep you from practicing unsafe sex? Worse, are we now at a point where a disease that's killed millions is treated like it's no big deal? But then I changed my mind. I realized that this commercial wasn't just a scare tactic - but a tribute to drug companies and those who work for them. Think about it: thanks to them, HIV is now a manageable illness, like diabetes and...well, diabetes. And because it's no longer a death sentence, people who ARE ALIVE, now need a reminder that there are other diseases that come with carelessness. This is something to think about the next time you hear some d-bag railing against drug companies and their costly products. The fact is, drugs are expensive because so many of them fail, and even the highly successful ones may benefit only a few people. So without those evil drug companies - which are always demonized by trial lawyers and movies like Michael Clayton - there'd be no one alive hiring those trial lawyers or seeing movies like Michael Clayton. Even an angry activist should appreciate that (but probably won't). And if you disagree with me, you're a racist, homophobe. Tonight's guests! Larry Gatlin Bernadette Pauley Remi Spencer


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Jores Okore is also in contention after playing in an Under-21s game against Stoke on Monday. The defender suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury last September after just four appearances following his £4m arrival from FC Nordsjaelland.
Strikers Christian Benteke (Achilles) and Libor Kozak (broken leg) remain sidelined.
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Apple iCloud and MobileMe push email nixed in Germany because of Motorola's patent ban
Apple has disabled its push email services for iCloud and MobileMe in Germany, as a compliance measure for the Motorola-induced injunction against it. Cupertino apparently didn't have time to employ the workarounds that switch to timed email check, but didn't want to get fined either, so it just axed the service while it appeals.
Push for German iPhone and iPad users will work as advertised for contacts and calendar, just not for the email services. Push email will also work for German iFans when they go abroad, since the court ban is valid for the country only.
Motorola has a $100 million bond on the injunction, which it will have to dole to Apple if the court overturns the ruling during the appeal, and the sum might even increase much more if Apple claims damages, so we'll see how this snippet of Cupertino's legal saga will develop.
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1. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
you seed, you harvest......bad boy Apple
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2. x7black7x (Posts: 118; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
so Mr. Danial.P what u mean is that if you live in germany and buy an apple product you have to go out of the country to use it....
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3. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5953; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Apple is just too busy appealing the injunction to field a change to iOS users in Germany that would have the default Mail setting changed to 'pull' e-mail every nn minutes.
It sure isn't about serving customers.
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Arroz con Pato (Roast Duck with Cilantro Rice)
For the person who requested the Peru Duck
Arroz con Pato (Roast Duck with Cilantro Rice)
Epcot International Food and Wine Festival 2007, Peru
Serves 4
A 4 - 5 pound duck, cut into 8 serving pieces
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon ground cumin seeds
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup canola oil
2 - 12 ounce bottles light beer
1 cup water
2 cups long grain rice
1 cup frozen defrosted peas
1 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro
1. Set the duck pieces in a shallow dish and rub in in the lemon juice, cumin, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Cover and refrigerate for six hours.
2. In a large heavy casserole, heat the oil over high heat until it hazes. Add the duck and brown it well on all sides. Drain off the fat from the casserole and add the beer and water. Bring liquid to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 45 minutes. Transfer the duck to the plate, cover and keep warm.
3. Pour the liquid off and strain and measure 3 1/2 cups. Pour the liquid back to the casserole and bring it to a boil. Stir in the rice, bring liquid back to a boil, reduce the heat and cook the rice for 20 minutes, covered.
4. Stir in the peas, cilantro, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Arrange the duck on the rice; cover the casserole and return it to low heat for a few minutes to heat the duck.
5. To serve, mound the rice and peas on a serving dish and arrange the duck pieces on top.
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Because it will take a couple days to transcribe the recipes I was given them going to let you know the results of my big recipe search.
First of all I generally let the wait staff known that I was making this request on behalf of the 50,000 members of the Disney Board and the very popular recipe exchange. That definitely gets everybody's attention. I also promised to post the names of the staff that were especially helpful.
San Angel Inn: I didn't eat there but talked to the manager, Joel, last Sunday and requested the recipes for the Corn Chowder (Crema de Elote, post 70) and the Chiles en Nogada (p. 230). He was very friendly and seemed genuinely willing to help. He said he would pass on the requests and e-mail me the recipes. I haven't heard anything back. I was asked to fill out survey for Disney when I get home and when I do it I'll make sure to remind them about these promised recipes.
Sci Fi Diner Tony, my server was wonderful and brought me all the requested recipes, which included the 7 - Bean Chili (post 74 & 638), the BLT soup (post 85 & 638) and the Shrimp Penne Pasta (post 182).
Boma - when I presented the waiter was my request list he went to the kitchen and brought me a huge stack of printed recipes. Unfortunately, the MHencha and Melktart (p. 166) were not among them. He promised to pass on the requests to the kitchen along with my e-mail, but I'm still waiting for a response. He gave me the recipe for one of my favorite dishes the Cinnamon Raisin Rice (Geery), but I see lynninpa already posted it.
Of the desserts, the only one I really enjoyed was the Cocomisu which is the fluffy coconut stuff served in the big bowl. It's the only coconut dessert I saw on the buffet. The Recipe follows because it's already all over the Internet. The Chocolate Mousse Crunch was too sweet for me, and the Zebra Domes and Melktarte were not to my taste. Interestingly, I found some of the recipes I made from Boma tasted better than what was on the buffet. Their Mulva Cake was hard and cold and not nearly as good as what I had made at home. I'll post the Mudslide Martini recipe I had at their bar.
Earl of Sandwich Bread post 183 - this bread is brought in from the Open Hearth Bakery and reheated at the restaurant.
France Kiosk - Lemon Citrus Slush (post 236) - I walked into the restaurant holding the drink and asked for the recipe. The girl doing the seating left her post to take me into the restaurant and get me the recipe. That was very nice of her because it was lunchtime, there was a huge line of people waiting when she got back and I wasn't eating there.
Main Street Bakery Citrus Layer Cake (post 49). The cake was not available in the bakery when I went and they were very busy so I didn't stick around. MK was crazy busy the day I went (the kids were still off school) so I didn't bother to go to Liberty Tree Tavern or Crystal Palace as I'd originally planned to request recipes. I was just happy to get out of the park and didn't go back to MK again.
California Grill - my waitress is close to Chef Jens as she studied in Germany - very close to where I studied and where Chef Jens lived. She guaranteed me she'd pass on my requests so I'm hopeful about getting the recipe for the Teriyaki BBQ sauce which is basically what the Tamarind BBQ sauce (which is on our request list) is. They no longer serve the Tamarind BBQ sauce but I was assured the two are virtually the same - except the tamarind is left out. I also requested the Honey Crunch Cake and the Caramel Apple Shooter which is one of 3 dishes that make up the Caramel Apple dessert. The shooter was the best - very original and so good! And yes, I had 2 desserts - all in the name of research of course!
Kona Café I got all requested recipes except the Tuna Oscar as its too new. Ill be posting Pan Asian Noodles, Nut Crusted Mahi Mahi (170) and Beef Teriyaki (676). I had the Caramel Banana Crème Brulée for dessert and it was heavenly. I also got the recipe for the Pomegranate Splash cocktail as it was very refreshing.
Le Cellier - their menu has changed considerably from what is posted online and only 2 of the requested recipes are still on the menu. My waitress hails from Vancouver (my hometown), and said they would e-mail me the recipes if they can retrieve them from the archives. I did get the Eiswein Martini (drinks are always the easiest to get), but am waiting for the Sweet Potato Puree, the Duck Confit and the Stir-fried Beef Tips.
Misc. recipes that were not requested:
I got No Way Jose from Beaches and Cream, Bongos Jungle Juice from Adventurers Club, Rote Grutze from the German Beer Cellar buffet, Banana Split Cake from the Boardwalk Café, The Pasta Salad, African Fruit Fool, Sun-dried Tomato Dressing, Ham and Cucumber Salad, and many more from Boma.
Cocomisu (Coconut Tiramisu)
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Yield: 15 servings
1 cup Sugar
2 cups Water
10 oz Coconut Puree
1 cup Kahlua Liquor
30 pieces Ladyfingers
3 lb Mascarpone Cheese
1 lb Powder Sugar
8 Egg Yolks
7 sheets Gelatin
10 oz Coconut Puree
½ can Coco Lopez
1 qt Heavy Cream
1 cup Toasted Coconut
Make syrup by boiling water and sugar in a saucepot. Once it boils, remove from flame and transfer into another container. Mix with coconut puree and Kahlua.
Soak each ladyfinger while syrup is still warm and set aside on a sheet pan.
Soak gelatin leaves in cold water until soft. Remove excess water, then place gelatin in coconut puree in a small bowl. Place over a hot bath to dissolve the gelatin. Set aside.
In the mixer, whip mascarpone cheese with powder sugar. Add yolks, Coco Lopez and heavy cream. Whip until thick.
Temper some of this mixture in the gelatin and put it back with the rest of the filling.
Continue to whip until mixture has doubled. Be careful not to over whip and curdle the cheese.
Place soaked ladyfingers on the bottom of desired deep dish, about 4 inches deep. Ladle about an inch and a half of the filling.
Place another layer of ladyfingers, then ladle another layer of filling.
Smooth the top with a spatula, and then sprinkle the top with toasted coconut.
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What can I say?! You are going to make many Disers very happy with the findings in your quest for Disney recipes!
I have always wondered why recipes from Sci-Fi are so far & few between. I think you are in possession of more Sci-Fi recipes than anyone in history. Have you considered E-Bay? Just teasing.
You must have had a grand time on your recipe quest. I know I am jealous as it sounds like a wonderful adventure. To us Disney Foodies any way.
I put little "Coming Soon!" notes on the recipes on the requested list that you will be sharing with us! heehee
Thanks again, Tatania! Looking forward to your next post!
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Can't wait to add all those recipes to my collection, Tatania! Thanks so much and great work! Very timely - I was planning to make the No Way Jose Sundaes for Super Bowl Sunday - now I won't have to fake it!
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New England Pot Roast
When I've caught up on all the chores waiting for me today (plus I'm heading to the post office is morning), I'll start transcribing recipes. What's interesting about Sci-Fi Diner is that they have their recipes printed on little yellow postcards which you can mail out to friends. I wouldn't be surprised if other MK restaurants have the same. So for anybody visiting there, don't be shy about asking for the recipes.
Llyinpa - I wanted to give you the recipe of the New England Pot Roast from LTT (out of the Cooking with Mickey and the Disney Chefs) as you were asking about the cooking times. The cookbook version has different ingredients as well. Did your version comes from an online source or a different cookbook?
New England Pot Roast
Liberty Tree Tavern, MK
Serves 6
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 pounds boneless beef shoulder roast
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 cups large diced carrots
2 cups large diced celery
2 cups large diced onion
1/4 cup chopped garlic
2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup Burgundy wine
6 cups beef broth
1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Heat 1/4 cup oil in heavy pan, then brown the meat on all sides. Do not let it scorch.
3. Remove the meat and add butter. After butter has melted, add carrots, celery, onion, garlic, and fresh thyme. Sauté until vegetables are tender. Stir in the flour, and continue cooking until flour is lightly browned.
4. Stir in Burgundy wine and beef broth. Add the meat back into the pan.
5. Cover and bake for 40 minutes to 1 hour, or until meat is fork tender.
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LTT: Pot Roast
I agree about the editing on Disney cookbooks. This is also sometimes true about recipes people have gotten directly from restaurants. At times, ingredients are missing, cooking times can be off, etc
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Thanks for sharing the other great recipes, too.
I'm glad you had a great time at WDW!!
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Thank you sooooooooo much for getting those recipes. I was just craving that soup again this weekend (cold & rainy, perfect soup weather)
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Senseless Loss
I just moved to Denver, Colorado. Just, as in we arrived late last Thursday night. It was very hard leaving my friends and family behind; especially those friends who have become my family. I'm going to miss them all very much.
I am still subscribed to all the local Seattle news affiliates on my facebook page. I got an alert about a stabbing in Lynnwood and that they were on the hunt for the murderer in the homocide. My thoughts were "I know somebody who knows that guy", although there was no reason for this thought. It's Lynnwood. One city up from Everett, WA. Everett isn't exactly known for it's lack of violence so it's not a huge surprise and I put it off.
Later that night I learned that the victim was a co-worker of mine. He worked for me several times on a big project I was a part of running. He always had a smile on his face, and you could always count on him for some happy enthusiasm. It was never the fake enthusiasm, either. Jesus wore his heart on his sleeve, and I'd be willing to bet that if you needed it, he would give you the shirt off his own back.
My fiance is working weird hours this week, so he was asleep in the evening. I sat and stewed over so many thoughts, and even more tears. He wasn't my best friend – we had never hung out beyond the walls of work and the smoke deck.
He stopped by my desk last week to see exactly when I was moving and made sure to tell me how much I would be missed, how amazing I am, and how lucky he was to have worked with me. I was on a call, so I couldn't reciprocate much. Not as much as I now would have liked to. There are a few people that when I go back to visit Washington I was looking forward to be able to see again. We weren't close, but his smiling eyes were definitely on that list.
I pain for his loss, the loss for his friends and family. It pains me even more that I'm not there to help support my friends and fellow co-workers in the loss of this wonderful soul.
I spent the next few hours crying on and off. I've never known anybody who was lost to an act of violence like this. I've never once known anybody who passed with so much life and love left to give. I pondered over all the things that naturally go through our heads: "What if I was there? Could I have stopped it?" Knowing full well that even if I had still been in Washington, I wouldn't have been with Jesus.
Jesus is dead. Nothing anybody does at this point will EVER be able to right this wrong.
A few hours later I tried to man up and hold it all in. Peder woke, and I smiled to see him. I'm sure my eyes were red and puffy. I wrapped my arms around him. He asked what was wrong, and if I was okay. I said I was, but pulled him back to the bedroom and explained. I couldn't contain the tears any longer. He asked if I needed to fly back to WA. I said that wasn't necessary, but I appreciate the offer.
Being in the line of work he is in, he's encountered death multiple times. Including having caused it. He made a point to make sure there were a few things I knew as I process this… and I feel it's important information to share with the people who are also dealing with this loss.
There is nothing you could have done. It's not your fault. While it hurts, and we wish we could have been there to prevent it from happening, we can't. For our own sanity, we cannot dwell on those "what-if's". They can eat us alive. A senseless loss like this one is just that. Senseless. It will never make sense, even after we have all the details, IF we ever have all the details. This is one of those cases where there is no justice, and never will be. We cannot dwell to deeply in it. Living too far in this pain is unhealthy, and can lead down the wrong path.
To my friends: I love you all very much. I am sorry I am not there to help, to hug and cry with you. I know it will be awhile before some of you are ready to move past this. When you're ready make sure you put a big smile on your face. That's what he always did.
Watch "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – George W. Bush" on YouTube
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – George W. Bush: http://youtu.be/DepakUSDtQE
Guns aren't the Issue.
It's always interesting to me how many people seem to think that guns are the issue. . . but they're not. They never have been, and never will be. Canada has had shootings, and its not legal to have a gun there. Well, you can, but its a whole process is far more complicated than here in the United States. If you want to know more, check out the RCMP's website.
If you really take the time to study those who commit these crimes, then you'll see a lot of facts emerge. Sadly, the left doesn't really care about facts, so much as personal opinions and beliefs based on "feelings". Its really as if the entire left is comprised of overly hormonal females.
It's important to remember that:
Don't get me wrong, the right has their share of morons as well. Ann Coulter, for example. While some of her ideas have offended me greatly, I have come to realize that most of the time I am severely offended it's because she's pretty accurate, I just didn't want to admit it because it makes me realize who I am – and I don't always like to do that. Other times (most really?), she's just freaking bonkers.
Most of the time the people who are committing these mass shootings are highly intelligent. Having to deal with so many people having a lower IQ than myself, I understand that being intelligent leads to a more difficult and complicated life. Because I am aware of just how stupid the general population is; however, to say that gun control itself will make the murders stop is incorrect.
James Holmes picked the Aurora movie theater BECAUSE it was a gun free zone, and he isn't the only one. The majority of the shooters know what they're doing with the weapons. The majority of them spent a good chunk of time creating, developing and perfecting the details. The majority of them show signs of mental illness. I am pretty much completely anti-ObamaCare because I do NOT like to be told how to spend my money, BUT… if free health care means that these people who are mentally ill can afford to get, and maintain the medication they need to get through life [not that anybody NEEDS medication to get through life, but I would rather have them on medication if they can't figure it out on their own, than not], then it will be worth it.
But here is the REAL problem:
Our kids are self-righteous brats that are growing up into self-righteous murderers.
There. I said it. Don't deny it. Yes, there is the exception to every rule. and the odds are greatly in our favor that we won't raise a murderer… but I guarantee that the odds are not in your favor that your kids aren't brats. Mine is pretty great – even adults who don't like kids are completely willing to chill with Londyn – but I talk to her as an adult, and she comprehends more than a lot of kids. . . but even she has her bratty moments [usually when she comes back home from her dad's house]. But I do not hide reality from her, and she is much more capable and mature than most of the 6 year olds I've met. I don't tell her fantasy stories of magical fairies, and fat guys in suits that deliver presents, and I don't completely hide her from reality. It is really any wonder that our children reach adulthood and aren't trusting of the world?
How great is it to live in a world where losing teeth garners you money, and a fat guy in a suit you have never met leaves you the most amazing presents once a year? And an Easter bunny leaves CHOCOLATE EVERYWHERE?!! Mommy and Daddy should be married and live together forever and agree on everything? Christopher Columbus was a sweet saint who found the United States? The pilgrims and the Indians [pardon me "Native Americans"] got together to celebrate? Johnny Appleseed wandered the country dropping apple tree seeds everywhere? Paul Bunyan had an AMAZING BLUE OX?
Okay, now I want a blue puppy.
Oh, wait. None of that is true? Fuck & Me. I'm going to blow up the world now. Who wants to live in a world where none of this is real? HOW DISAPPOINTING??!
[and for the simple minded, since there are so many of you – I'm over generalizing on purpose].
We are encountering an era where being politically correct, and being happy and positive is how we "should" feel all the time. But the fact is we shouldn't. Nobody has any right to be "happy" 24/7 if they can't recognize what happiness really is.
A girl won't sleep with you? Why on EARTH do you think that killing her, or anybody will suddenly make your virginity disappear? Unless you're Muslim, 72 virgins aren't going to fall at your feet.
You have to WORK to earn money? You have to work to be somewhat smart to get a job? You can't just rob a bank and steal to survive?
Happiness is a choice. I have lived through a life that explains my tattoos, my colored hair, and my piercings all too well, but it doesn't mean that I get to walk around scouring and wanting to murder everybody. I don't get to walk around entitled and make you bow down to me because I have had a pretty crappy life. A lot of us have lives that we didn't like. I can sit and stew and blame everybody around me for the fact that I don't live the life of the millionaire-TV-Rockstar type.
My life will never be handed to me on a silver platter. And I'm okay with that. I work for my money, and I do fairly well for a single mother. Not as well as I'd like, but better than most — even if it doesn't always feel like it. But I am happy. I have the love of a wonderful man, and I don't need him. I can absolutely get by without him. . . I don't want to, and I'm not going to – in fact, I know I am going to spend the rest of my life with him. But knowing that I COULD manage without him just makes how much I love and want to be with him that much sweeter, and honestly will probably make our relationship that much more survivable.
We need to teach our kids that failure is okay. We fail, we get up, we try again… we fail again, we try again… and we keep failing until we look back and realize that every single one of our failures was actually success. We just weren't capable of seeing it then.
We need to teach our kids how to work. How to earn. How to be curious about the world. How to analyze. How to question. How to respect that our opinions aren't the only opinions. How to respect others. How to respect ourselves.
There are SOO many factors that are creating the world we live in.
Here is the truth of the matter. If you reach a point in your life where you feel the need to go kill several people before you kill yourself, or end up in prison for life [and doesn't THAT sound like a much better life than you have now?] please spare society the pain of your whining, selfish, assaholic deed and skip the middleman. KILL YOURSELF AND YOURSELF ALONE.
We are becoming more and more anti-suicide as a culture and there are several campaigns fighting against it. I have a TWLOHA tattoo on my wrist that lets you know I care – if you need help, or want to talk… and are thinking about offing yourself, I am COMPLETELY here to help. Suicide is never the answer. I have thought about it. Never seriously, but I won't lie – the thought as crossed my mind. It would absolutely be easier if I weren't here. Easier on me, anyway. But then curiosity gets to me. I will die in time. . . but I need to know what else is in store for me.
I would still rather see somebody who wants to die kill themselves than to read about them taking the lives of innocent children, men and women with them.
If this makes me wrong, I don't care. If you have an opinion about it, there is a comment section below. I am ALWAYS up for political and philosophical discussion. I'm even willing to admit that I am wrong as much as I am willing to play devils advocate to keep the conversation and the mutual learning between open minds going. My thoughts and opinions are generally free-flowing. I do ask that you acknowledge and respect facts [isn't it interesting that the 'facts' of something like Global Warming, and the Bible being non-sense are okay, but the moment facts come out about opposing opinion rationale and logic both disappear and it becomes a purely illogical "oh yeah, well you're a stupid head" debate?] and
The guns laws are already there. The solutions are there. WE THE PEOPLE [read it on my chest] are the problem. WE need to obey the rules that WE created. We the People means that WE [you and I] are the ones in control, and we can't ever forget that. The government was created BY THE PEOPLE [oh, that's us. The simpletons. The voters. The informed and uninformed] and FOR THE PEOPLE [yup, still us].
Happy Flag Day, America! Please never stop questioning everything around you.
@Brendan_Hines Called Me An Idiot, and I didn't even know who he was…
The other day I popped onto Twitter, something I like to do every now and then. I'll randomly Tweet replies to people trying to insight thought into the world… or piss them off [which is really my true goal].
One of the first tweets I saw after the Seattle Pacific University shooting was this:
Anybody who knows me knows that I'm pro-guns; however, I am very much anti-guns-in-the-hands-of-stupid-people. To do this I feel we need to work very diligently on creating less stupid people. I have not exactly figured out HOW we are going to do that, but I have ideas. Lots and lots of ideas.
My response to the moronic quote above was simply:
If I had a gun and was there, that shooter would be dead. If more people had guns there would be less shootings, if any.
To which he replied:
He didn't reply to my next Tweets:
Ah, incorrect. For example The CO theater shooter specifically picked the theater BECAUSE it was a gun free zone.
If everybody had guns, and nobody wanted to live there, at least the would have the power to make that true.
I would rather live where citizens were armed and able than live in a fantasy world where the insane are the only sane.
Its insanity to think gun control will stop the death.
It didn't dawn on me until yesterday, but at the time I had no idea that the person I was tweeting to was actually an actor from one of my all-time favorite TV Shows, "Lie to Me" [Seriously broke my heart when that show ended]. @Brenden_Hines was one of my favorites. Kudos to your acting skills, you play an intelligent man very well. Clearly great acting! ;)
As a thinker, and a planner, its a scenario I have ran over in my head a million times over. Not ONE time I've run over this idea have I considered that the best option for me is to be not carrying SOME sort of weapon. That being said, its been about nine years or so since I've handled a gun, though I was raised with them.
Truthfully, I've avoided guns due to the circumstances I was in, and the PTSD [and TSD while I was in it] from a severely emotionally abusive [or as one friend put it, torturous] relationship that has affected me on many levels. I sold the S&W .380 my dad gave me when there were visitors over at my and my then boyfriends house to pick up various forms of non-prescription recreational … yeah, I'll just be blunt. Drugs [Weed, Mushrooms – the plants. Nothing really crazier than that.]
I wasn't comfortable knowing that people knew there was a weapon in the house. At that point, the gun didn't scare me, but the people around me terrified the crap out of me. It DEFINITELY didn't help that I took this boyfriend shooting and he didn't understand, know, or care to know and understand "The Rules". It is VERY important if you're shooting with me that you live by these rules. If you wave the gun around like a dumbass, then it's clear you don't understand or respect what is in your hands and it very well MAY go off unintentionally.
Aside from all of that, the issue with the world is NOT the weapon itself, but rather the people who are weilding it. We don't need to take away guns from people. If we took away things that killed people then life as we know it would be AWFUL.
In 2012 there were 34,080 deaths from automobile accidents.
So much for cars! Clearly we don't know how to use those.
In 2012 there were 69,071 deaths from Diabetes.
Damn you sugar, you gave me the sweet, sweet taste of death.
In 2012 there were 31,672 deaths by firearm in the United States.
(Somehow that feels a little high to me…)
In 2012 there were 8,855 murders by firearm in the United States
(Ah, there. That feels a little better. Where the hell are the rest of those numbers coming from?!)
Total ADD Moment:
At this point in my research, the numbers are hurting my brain. It's 1am. Why am I still awake?
The United States is the Number 1 country when it comes to Rank of Ownership, that is, we have the most number of guns per capita at 88.8 firearms for every 100 people [damn, I didn't expect that number at ALL.]
While the United States may have a large ownership of guns, we don't tend to carry them around. I won't lie, having a gun next to my bed is incredibly comforting, but what good is it if I'm not there? What good is it if its on the nightstand safe when I'm in the mall parking lot at night? What good is it if I can't carry a weapon from work to my car when I park in a dark alley? What good is it to not even allow me to carry it in my car at work if I have to drive to the city later that day?
If I'm in a parking lot in the middle of nowhere, hell– the middle of somewhere!–and a gun is pulled on me [likely by a criminal who already isn't allowed to have them], what should I do?
What good does ownership of a weapon do if we're not allowed to have it with us when we might need it the most?
There are a LOT of things to consider in The Great Gun Debate, but the biggest one to consider has nothing to do with guns at all, and it has EVERYTHING to do with our children. I feel this blog is really going to need to become more. . . s0 more t0 come.
Despite all of this, I was watching Suits last night and saw Brendan on TV. I giggled and pointed and squealed "Hey, that's the guy that called me stupid!".
Brendan, thank you for once again making me realize that there are people out there that are irrational. I would be happy to discuss this further, but I'm pretty sure you've already made up your mind to stay closed.
[Now, if only I could convince him to adlib my name, "Eternity" into one of his lines as an acknowledgement to agree to disagree… what? I'm a writer… Girls got to have hope somewhere, right?]
Dear Addict
It pains me to see your mother hurting so bad for you. If only you knew and understood just how much she loves you. But you can't because right now you're selfish and the only thing you can see is your wants and you "needs". I promise none of this has to continue. The pain. The suffering. The anger. The anguish. The fear.
There is more to life than just expecting people to hand you things; in fact, if you live your life expecting everything to be handed from you then your soul has nothing to be happy about. We reap the most self-assurance, and confidence and even happiness from discovering that we can take care of ourselves AND others. That we CAN count on ourselves to make it through and live another day. The fact that you act as if life should be handed to you on a silver platter may explain why you anger so easy, and hurt the ones you love. But you're locked in such a red rage that you can't even see just how miserable your actions are making everybody around you.
It doesn't have to be like that. You do have a choice. You do have the ability to rely on yourself, but you have to humble yourself to the experience. You have to open your eyes and realize that this world isn't a bad place. There are bad things that happen. Your feelings will get hurt, but those are moments to learn. Those are the moments when you have to step back and realize that you don't feel the way you feel for the reasons you think. There is far more to it then that.
You say you're angry because your mom won't take care of you; but in reality, you're angry with yourself because YOU won't take care of you.
You won't settle for less than $20 an hour?!? How ridiculous is THAT!? If nobody is willing to hire you at $20 an hour, you need to start out at minimum wage and work up. Prove you are WORTH $20/hour. Start at the bottom. Nobody EVER said it was going to be easy. Working minimum wage isn't the most fanciful life. But with dedication, and hard work and a good resume, you CAN eventually find $20/hour. I've been working non-stop for 13 years and I still don't make $20/hour.
I can't afford everything I want, but I can afford everything I need. I understand the reasons for saying you won't settle [but sadly, you're settling for way worse]. My life isn't peaches and cream. If I was given a choice to draw out my perfect life even 10 years ago, I would never pick even half of what I have now because I would pick something better for myself. I'm amazing. I know that. I deserve better, right? Don't we all? But sometimes, you just have to deal with what you have and keep working to make it better. And for me, it gets better and better with each day I live. Each step I take, and with each difficult moment I make it through, whether on my own or with the help of those I love, and who love me.
I have never met you. I honestly know incredibly little about the situation. I did, however, marry somebody who is a bi-polar addict. He never dove as deeply into the world of drugs as you have, at least not for very long. But being hurt by him emotionally and physically taught me so many things and how to see the world for what it really is.
I matter. I can't let ANYBODY tell me that I don't. If they don't see that I matter, then I don't have time to waste on them. This speaks of you also. You matter. Your mother matters. She is a wonderfully sweet-hearted woman who cares for you on levels that you'll never be able to understand.
Nobody ever guaranteed happiness. Happiness is a choice. You can't chase it down with drugs. Nobody has ever won with that method.
But none of that will ever matter if you can't take the time to sit down and listen to your own heart and mind. None of that will ever matter if you keep ignoring what your heart has been telling you for years.
I can tell you a million truths about yourself that will open you up and wreck you into tears, and I have never met you. Because I love and care about your mother I chose to write this. You may never read it, but you already feel it.
I pray someday soon you'll begin to live it.
Proper Wages
As I realize a large part of my position is helping people who have been here years longer than me do their job I realize they also likely earn more per hour than I do. Since Seattle is seeking an outrageous $15/hour minimum wage it makes me ask the question: rather then based on tenure and "experience", what if wages were determined by competence?
I know what would happen, competent people wouldn't find work anywhere and we would have everything ran by the incompetent because they cost less.
Why are we not paying government officials what they are worth?
Things that make you go "Hmm…"
I am going to preface this with the fact that I've been watching a rash of YouTube videos that are completely and utterly ridiculous. Please expect this post to be nothing more than a reflection of that. My brain has left the building and I'm just typing the words that are scrolling through – this doesn't mean I believe what I am saying. Entirely.
Conservatives are anti-abortion cause you can't tax 'em if they're dead.
Liberals are pro-
abortion choice because it means they won't have to hold up the "we'll take care of you" end of their bargain.
Personally, I'm pro-first-trimester-choice. That would make an AWESOME bumper sticker.
After that, you're
screwed "punished with a baby".
In 2009 there were 420,000 children in foster care. 108,000 children are located in a group home, or "other," whatever that means [Stats available here]. All I know is it means there are 108,000 children in the United States that don't have foster parents or family that have taken them on. Financially and time wise, I barely have time and money for my own child… but being a foster parent is on my "To Do" list when my life opens up the opportunity.
I'm also of the belief that if you're ANTI-abortion, then you need to sign up to either be a foster parent, or adopt a child.
Well, I started writing this sort of joking anyway. I'll have to clarify more when my eyes aren't so fuzzy and I can actually see the words I'm typing.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
City Life is So Restricting… and I hate it.
Talk to me for awhile, and its no surprise at all that I despise living in the city. I grew up in the country, and have a deep longing to get back to who I am at the root of myself.
I like being around people sometimes, but there are just too damn many people around here.
I grew up on roughly two and a half acres of land with a quaint 4-bedroom manufactured home. It was nice because we had neighbors that were near and dear to us, but if we wanted our space and privacy – we had that, too.
If I wanted to pull out my BB gun and go target shooting in the yard, that was no problem at all. It was easy to know who could possibly be behind your target when the lot behind you is nothing but acres and acres of grass or corn. If dad was feeling goofy and wanted to turn his stereo up really loud, we could do that, too. And not a single cop would show up for a noise complaint. In the city, sometimes it seems as if the cops are called when somebody sneezes too loudly.
If we wanted to grow our own food, we could dig up the earth and make a feeble attempt at growing corn. Sure, it's only like 3 inches long, but it still tasted great!
When I was 10 I got a crossbow for Christmas. Nothing too crazy, but man did it feel awesome to have gotten something so cool! When I was 12 or so I got a re-curve bow from my mothers boyfriend. There was nothing like setting up the foam deer, strapping on the arm guard and discovering I had something that felt like a natural talent for sailing an arrow straight through its little foam heart.
I grew up in Everson, Washington. One point three square miles [832 acres] with 2,400 people, and surrounded by vast acres of farmland with even less people, and not a single stop-light to be found. You could drive the 4 miles to the grocery store pretty quick and only have to deal with 3 stop signs.
But now I live in Everett. Fourty-Eight square miles [31,033 acres] and packed with 104,000 people. Its a little congested up in here. There are cars everywhere. People everywhere. Stores everywhere.
Today I went to Cabela's for the first time. A magickal store filled with all sorts of things that I wish I could have has hobbies either again, or for the first time. I would love to teach my daughter how to use a bow, but the only way to do that is to have a TON of land where she can safely miss, and we just don't have that here. Hell, I don't need television. I'd rather be outside with my own bow or rifle plinkin away at empty soda cans and getting my revenge for any and all papercuts I've sustained over the years [you've had a papercut, you know that paper sometimes deserves to die!].
There are other things I would love to do with my life, that I feel are more where I'm meant to be than I currently am. Why am I paying $1-$1.50 for onions or green peppers, when a few hours of labor and love and I could grow and freeze my own to last all year? Same goes for all the fresh foods I commonly eat… Asparagus, Carrots, Spinach, Basil, Raspberries and Strawberries. . . not to mention, I'd probably eat more Beets, Green Beans, and Peas if I grew them myself.
There are many other aspects to city life that are unappealing. If I let myself dwell on it too long, I begin to loathe myself and the trade-offs I've made for who I should be, and what I am.
Stop Living the Lie
If our job and purpose on this planet is to help create the utopia of world peace, and there are people in the world who will never abide to the concept, and if sometimes to be a good leader you need to tell people they are wrong then is a good leader somebody who can give a direction of murder to accomplish the ultimate goal?
When does destruction save us from destruction? When does death save us from death? When does theft save us from thieves?
When will we all stop wasting our time, our lives, our friends lives, and our families lives? When will we stop wasting the lives of our children?
When will we realize that every single one of our parents and their parents, and their parents have lied to us for generations and generations?
When will we all stop and realize it is up to us to both live and teach the truth? For the sake of the world, only we can stop the lies by deciding to stop living the lie ourselves.
Rant: Cherry Halves (Artificially Colored)
We've all done it, numerous times. Opened that can of fruit cocktail, poured it out and hungrily searched for that juicy succulent cherry… only to to discover (yet again), that you have instead put a piece of wax in your mouth. It was NOT a cherry. It was some fake monstrousity that can barely be called food.
And yet, on every can of fruit cocktail those enticing cherries call out to you. And every now and again you dig for one in your great aunts fruit salad thinking they've smartened up.
And every time you're wrong.