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Paris is 'Still' Burning
By Steven Thrasher
Photos by Kevin Amato
Though less than eight miles apart, the Bronx Pride Center couldn't be more different from the better known, much better funded Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center in Manhattan's West Village. There are no Keith Haring murals adorning its bathroom walls; in fact, its second-floor toilet doesn't even have a proper handle. If not for its modest canopy sign -- right next to a butcher's prominent MEAT MARKET lettering -- you'd pass the dilapidated building without so much as a cruising glance.
But for some of New York City's most marginalized LGBT youth, the Bronx Pride Center is one of the few places in the borough where anyone cares if they live or die.
The Mott Haven neighborhood where it is based has one of the highest rates of AIDS-related deaths in the city. It's also in one of the poorest congressional districts in the United States. That lethal combination of poverty and disease makes the queer kids who call these streets home particularly vulnerable.
It is here where the underground ballroom drag scene, observed by much of the world for the first time in Jennie Livingston's 1990 Paris Is Burning, still sizzles. On any given weekday, you can find queer kids hanging out on the center's second floor practicing duck walks, hand performance, spins, and dips. Faced with the task of simply staying alive, they catwalk. Just feet above the streets where they could have the shit beaten out of them for acting so flamboyantly, they vogue to their spirits' content, arms flying freely.
Ballroom drag events account for about 80% of the center's first contact with the 4,000 youth they service each year. But getting them off the streets and onto the dance floor is an act of triage that creates its own undesirable side effects, the center's executive director Dirk McCall acknowledges.
'There are kids here who have seroconverted,' says McCall, 'and they're selling their HIV medications on the street for money to buy their clothes for the balls.' Concerned, the center plans to start a fashion workshop, so kids can use their facilities to make their own clothes from donated materials for free.
Not that making your own outfits would get you into, say, the House of Milan or the House of Mizrahi. But it may get you a walk on the 'kiki' circuit, the junior league that evolved for kids wanting to get into ballroom before they're old enough.
The runway is where many shattered young queers have turned to feel beautiful when their own families have rejected them. And when those selective ballroom "houses' won't give them the time of day, they come here. The Harlem River may be a poor substitute for the Seine, but here, Paris is burning hotter than ever.
'This is a shade-free zone!' cries out Pony, a dance instructor who has the look, energy, and moves to pull off his name.
'Throwing shade' at someone is ballroom slang for dissing them, and Pony will have none of it in his Tuesday afternoon vogue class.
'How many of you have ever walked a ball?' he asks the 15 or so drop-ins. Only three -- including an alluring, confident girl named Jenovia -- raise their hands. 'How many have ever walked a kiki ball?' The same three hands go up.
The group is very different from what you'd expect if your main exposure to drag was La Cage Aux Folles or RuPaul's Drag Race. As cliquish as it can be, there's room for everyone in ballroom drag, especially kiki. There are categories for boys and girls of all body types, many of which have nothing to do with cross-dressing. 'Thugs,' whom the untrained eye wouldn't suspect of being gay, let alone drag queens, look nothing like those walking 'BQID' ('butch queen in drag').


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How painkillers and alcohol nearly killed a friendship and a college career
A friend's battle with addiction and alcoholism leads to the ER -- and anger on the part of a friend who tried to help. But there's real strength in fighting every day to move forward rather than slip back toward another relapse.
Editor's note: Stephanie Schendel, a journalism student at Washington State University, interned at InvestigateWest during the summer of 2011. Here she shares a compelling first-person account of how the prescription drug epidemic affected her own life and that of her roommate, Justine, who agreed to be interviewed for this story. It's a personal tale, but also one that is playing out on campuses around the state and country as colleges grapple with the ready availability of alcohol and prescription drugs, and the students who get hooked on them.
This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between InvestigateWest, an independent nonprofit newsroom covering the Pacific Northwest, and public broadcast station KCTS 9. An accompanying documentary airs at 9 p.m.Monday (Jan. 30), to be followed by a half-hour in-studio discussion.
When I first met Justine, she was chugging from a bottle of vodka. I was 18 years old and at my first frat party. I barely knew anyone, and the fraternity's basement smelled like old beer and cheap deodorant. The smell, blaring music, and the amount of people and alcohol overwhelmed me, but not Justine. Outgoing and friendly, Justine seemingly already knew everyone there, even though it was her first week of college.
The first thing Justine told me that night was that she'd already downed 18 beers in order to "medicate" for the tattoo she had gotten earlier that day. I was alarmed and impressed. She showed it to me, the irritated skin still red and puffy. It was three words written in Hungarian. She said they meant "strength, loyalty and compassion."
She didn't remember meeting me that night. Or even the second or third night we met, but I remembered her: She was girl who had an insane tolerance for alcohol and could out-drink a fraternity any day of the week.
By then, she was already deep into her addictions. Years later, she told me her substance abuse had started in middle school with pot and alcohol. By the time she was thirteen she was stealing pills from her grandmother's medicine cabinet.
Pot and alcohol spiraled into Darvon, Percocet, Vicodin, and OxyContin. Cocaine and heroin came later. By the time she started college, Justine had done it all.
But I didn't know that then.
I didn't meet Justine again until our second year of college, when she moved into an apartment down the street from me. She was friends with one of my roommates, and began to spend a lot of time at our house.
Because both of us were loud, outgoing, and sarcastic, we got along great. The main thing we had in common at first was partying, but within a few weeks we also realized we both a bad habit of laughing at inappropriate times and were obsessed with going to the gym.
That semester I went through a lot of personal turmoil. My relationship with my roommates had deteriorated and I went through a rough breakup with my boyfriend. Justine was my support. She listened to my frustrated ranting during our daily walks to the gym.
We became inseparable. But as we became better friends, I began to notice Justine not only drank a lot while partying, she drank a lot the rest of the time as well.
Then again, in college, just about everyone drinks a lot.
And despite drinking or using drugs every day, Justine had a 3.7 GPA. Her academic success while partying daily was a source of pride for her, and furthered her justification for drinking or getting high every day.
The amount of time she spent high or drunk began to make me feel uncomfortable. The main difference between us was that I could stop drinking and be sober and she couldn't. On Friday nights when I chose to stay home to watch a movie, Justine stayed home with a bottle of wine. Still, she was my best friend.
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Boy oh boy. That Crosscut would publish this story is so wrong in a number of ways it's hard to know where to start. Yeah I get that the media are now in an inoculate-the-public phase about a chemical crisis in society. Every drug purchase is recorded in a data base, just for our own good, available to our doctors, and, oh yeah the police. Tighten supply, embarrass legitimate use; works every time.
Where in this article is there a debriefing on the lessons learned by the writer, for this story is really about her. Her university, like all in the state, have large administrative fiefdoms, called variously Offices of Student Achievement, or perhaps even the old fashion Student Affairs, where vast sums are spent on resources and people to provide counseling and referrals for people experiencing the very situation faced by the writer. Wonder why tuition in this state is going up at double-digit percentages each year? Look on the non-academic side, but I digress. Yet our young writer does not mention accessing these resources. Getting help for herself is a big part of this story, and stories like it.
But she didn't have to restrict herself to university resources. Al Anon is an organization that would have (and still will) welcome her with open arms, anonymously, to help her deal with her obsession to be a hero and rescue her chemically dependent friend. There are probably other equally effective groups, counselors and therapists which deal with co-dependency, but Al Anon has 60 years of experience behind it.
Crosscut -- journalism demands analysis, investigation, reflection and facts. Everything else is opinion and commentary, which, so far, characterizes your "collaboration with InvestigateWest".
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Sorry if this is not the right place, but I have mistakenly acquired 25 corms of the blue Anemone de Caen, and they will not (apparently) survive in the ground over my Toronto winter.
So, what are my options? Force them over the winter? Not a bad option if they will bloom. Keep them overwinter (in the fridge? at room temperature?) and plant in early Spring? How long will the dried corms last and remain viable? Thanks in advance. |
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Here is a link that might be useful: Anemone de caen hardiness?
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In my experience, Anemone tubers are among the few bulbs that can be stored completely dry, at room temperature, for up to three years! Wow! =-O |
If you have the room and the windowsill space pot up about five corms in a 20cm pot. You probably wouldn't have to force them. When you first plant them keep them almost dry and have them in a mix that drains well. Once they've produced leaves you can add more water and feed them every week at the strength recommended for indoor flowering plants. Really important - excellent light and a cool temperature (7C) and excellent air circulation to keep the foliage dry/mildew free. No standing in water. Tip away surplus water in the saucer. They flower for ages if you deadhead regularly. It might not be true in your area: I've found that spring-planted Anemones tend to rot unless the soil is warm and free-draining. Hope they do well for you. |
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I'm looking forward to seeing Keller's role with Tanny, he should have plenty of room to work with MW11 stretching the field.
At some point in time, JUNC was just frustrating with his arguments defending Mark Sanchez, he kinda had a point with this guy bringing their team to 2 division games. And although the most common NFL fan would argue Mark wasn't what brought them there and that in fact he was just a passenger on that team, he still had those 2 consecutive defeats to brag about. But its just not frustrating anymore, its actually become very entertaining for me to watch these threads. Keep on entertaining me JUNC
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The medical center's expansive cancer research program has been responsible for advancing knowledge and treatments, said Dr. Julie Vose, M.D., chief of the UNMC Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Neumann M. and Mildred E. Harris Professor. She also is a physician on staff at The Nebraska Medical Center. Researchers receive funding from a variety of sources, including the National Institutes of Health, and collaborate with some of the top cancer centers in the world such as MD Anderson Cancer Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, and several European centers.
"We learn through our encounters with patients and our clinical trials. Our experience not only helps our current patients but also will help future patients five or 10 years down the road. In oncology, everything we do is based on research," Dr. Vose said.
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- Age is no longer a barrier to getting a transplant. In the past, transplants were limited to around age 60 for an autologous transplant and age 50 for an allogeneic transplant. Now transplants are done well into the 70s.
- Survival rates have increased due to the advance in knowledge and supportive care that help patients get through the procedure. These include better antibiotics, new medications and other supportive care procedures and better ways to prevent graft versus host disease. Because treatments have improved, fewer patients require transplantation. Only the sickest patients are undergoing transplantation.
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Good news: The Singularity is coming (again)
History tends to look better over longer time horizons. For example, consider one bit of good news: the Singularity is coming.
This mathematical concept came to the public's attention from Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Real Time, describing a wondrous future in which the rate of technological progress accelerates – eventually going vertical — after which the humanity leaves for a higher plane of existence (see links below for more on this). Since then it seems that singularities abound in our future, in addition to this technological singularity. Those terrified by the approach of Peak Oil often describe it as a dystopian Singularity; those elated by Peak Oil describe it as a wonderful singularity — a forced purification as we enter a new age. In this post I have described the end of the post-WWII regime as a singularity in a limited sense: we cannot see beyond it (and before worrying about what lies beyond, must first survive the passage through it).
More importantly, singularities are in fact common in human history. Been there, done that. Singularities – or perhaps The Singularity — lie in our past. Consider these awesome accomplishments of our species, each of which radically changed our world.
- discovery of fire — giving us power over the environment
- agriculture — giving control of our food sources
- writing — key to accumulating knowledge over generations
Similar good discontinuities might lie in our future:
- space travel — vast increase in resources, planetary engineering, independence from Earth as our only nest
- widespread genetic-engineering — independence from evolution, the freedom to shape ourselves
- construction of Artificial Intelligences — an end to our solitude, independence from limitations of biological intelligence
- vastly extended vital lifespans — "vital" is key, to avoid becoming Struldbruggs, the immortals described in Gulliver's Travels as old and decrepit
Longer lives might prove the most important. In Back to Methuselah, George Bernard Shaw temporarily abandoned his utopian dreams and suggested that only longer lifespans — 300 years — could bring true human wisdom and hence a better world. The horror show of violence and folly we call history results from the absence of adult supervision (people over 100 years old). That might change during the next few generations as we unlock the secrets of biology, as in the 19th and 20th centuries we with chemistry and physics.
Of course, those are only the innovations in the "plausible" realm. Outside that are things such as time travel, unlimited energy sources, and faster than light travel. Who knows what we might achieve in the future. Given our past, why are so many people so gloomy about our future? Challenges lie ahead, as always, but we have survived ice ages (large and small), natural disasters (such as the eruption of Toba, which exterminated most of our species), and our own mistakes and follies.
History gives us reason to look to the future with anticipation, not fear. We must remember this as our elites increasingly attempt to lead by exciting our fears.
The articles that inspired this post
Cro-Magnon Communication, Brad Delong, Grasping Reality with Both Hands, 5 August 2005
The Twelve-Year-Old is on strike. She refuses to write more than one paragraph of a letter detailing her day to our pre-Neolithic Revolution ancestors. She says the idea is stupid because it cannot be done — the Singularity is not in our future but in our past. Nevertheless it is quite a good first paragraph:
I was jigging to my iPod when my friend Noelle rode up in the front passenger seat of her family's minivan. "Will your parents let you come see 'The Wedding Crashers'?" she asked.
She has a point. "Jigging" can be gotten across. And the East African Plains Ape social dynamics can be gotten across — friends, marriage, excessive parental control of the activities of adolescent females, et cetera (although not all of them: the idea of a "wedding crasher" is a very complicated concept to get across to a hunter-gatherer who has lived in a group of 40 or so her whole life).
But the rest? Maybe I should have reversed the assignment: What kinds of science fiction would hunter-gatherers have written?
Early Holocene Sci-fi — written by Pat Mathews (link)
Shaman: I have foreseen a time when everybody can have all the meat, fat, and sweet stuff they can eat, and they all get fat.
Chief: You have had a vision of the Happy Hunting Grounds.
Shaman: It is considered a great and horrible problem! People go out of their way to eat leaves and grass and grains, and work very hard to look lean and brown.
Chief: You've been eating too many of those strange mushrooms, and are seeing everything backward.
Conclusion: Why is this important?
Survival requires that we focus on risks and threats, as good news usually takes care of itself. Hence the articles on this blog about the dangers facing us, as the American summer fades into winter.
Survival also requires a positive attitude, which means seeing things in their proper context. Events often move in cycles, experienced as of unknown duration, magnitude, and scale. America might re-emerge from winter revitalized, as strong or even stronger than ever. Perhaps this cycle moves humanity to a higher level, with winter for the West followed by a greater spring in Asia.
No matter what happens, we can face the future with pride in our past and optimism for the future. Let us not let our critics and naysayers take these away from us.
Links to more information about the things described in this post
- Wikipedia on the technological singularity.
Ray Kurzweil: his website; the Amazon page for his book (Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology)
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A few of the posts about good news, an antidote to the doomsters:
- Some good news (one of the more important posts on this blog), 21 December 2007 – I do not believe we need fear the future, despite the tough times coming soon. This remains a great nation, not because of our past but because of us and our polity. We differ from almost every other nation. The difference consists of our commitment to our political order, of which our Constitution is the foundation. In this we are like Athens more than our neighbors …
- An important thing to remember as we start a New Year, 29 December 2007 — As we start a New Year I find it useful to review my core beliefs. It is easy to lose sight of those amidst the clatter of daily events. Here is my list…
- Fears of flying into the future, 25 February 2008 — Reasons we need not fear the future.
- Experts, with wrinkled brows, warn about the future, 2 May 2008 — Experts often see the future with alarm, seeing the dangers but not benefits. That gets attention, from both the media and an increasingly fearful public. Both sides feed this process. It need not be so, as most trends contain the seeds of good and bad futures. This post considers two examples.
- Good news about the 21st century, a counterbalance to the doomsters, 9 May 2008
- Some thoughts about the economy of mid-21st century America, 12 January 2009 — Optimistic words from the greatest economist of the 20th century.
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In physics, specifically mechanics, singularities crop up all the time. For example, in calculating various forces, one term often "blows up", due to a divide by zero condition as one approaches the point in space where the force magnitude becomes unbounded. No problem. You write the equation stating the sum of all forces is zero. You multiply through (take the inner product) with velocity. This creates an energy equation because force times velocity is power. Now you integrate over space and time to get a total energy balance. If all the energy terms are bounded, the singularity is said to be "removable". This means the "infinite" force exists in an infinitesimal region so that the integrated working and associated dissipation (energy) is finite. It is only the "non-removable" singularities, those yielding infinite energy, that are cause for concern. The real world does not allow infinite energy, so your model is incorrect if it leads to a non-removable singularity.
By analogy, a lot of Chicken Little behavior in the much less mature fields of economics and societal engineering arise because we don't yet know how to "remove" singularities we see coming in political/economic models. We run screaming like little girls because "money velocity can go to zero", or "fear can go to infinity-paralyzing us", without understanding the correct averaging operations to apply as tests of plausibility. In a country with three million souls, fear might go to "infinity" in three people, or three thousand, but correctly weighted and averaged over the population, total fear might be not only bounded, but unperturbed. I've stretched this analogy to the breaking point, but I hope it captures an aspect of the cognitive error we make in talking about singularities as though there is only one type, when there are two; removable (plausible), and non-removable (implausible, because they violate a conservation law or its equivalent in social science).
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I find your mention Singularity via AI somewhat amusing because having attended a Singularity Summit, many of the super-smart there were bemoaning the takeover of humans by smart machines. They said things like, "I'd make a good pet," said one speaker who wasn't kidding. Then you have Bill Joy going on Charlie Rose and saying the same things. Check out: http://www.singularitysummit.com/program
Humankind is stupid and foolish enough to harm ourselves in plenty of ways that no machine could ever figure out.
Fabius Maximus replies: I attended several meetings of the Assn for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in the late 1980's. AI — then represented by experts systems and neural networks — was about to hit the big time. Like all previous surges, it petered out to almost nothing. The current fears are, like previous expectations of major breakthroughts during the past 50 years, IMO just the result of overactive imaginations.Someday these fears will be worth consideration. Not yet.


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My patio contractor is set to finish things by Oct. We ultimately decided to have the concrete tinted a dark tan/light brown color. He suggested we purchase the least expensive tint, since you don't get that much more quality for the money you spend for the more expensive tint.
The hardscaping will be mostly in the shade for the most part so we won't have the intense sun of the south side. He's checking on the differences in prices and will let us know next week, but does anyone out there have much knowledge for how the various tints hold up? Do you think it's work the extra money? |
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A series of powerful winter snowstorms has given Vermont the cold shoulder.
The storms have dumped a foot or more of snow on southern New England and the New York City area but have barely covered the ground in Vermont — and people in the snow-loving state can't stand that.
Mild winter weather earlier this month reduced what little snow there was, said Tim Stone, the trailmaster for the Sno-Bees Snowmobile Club in Barre, just southeast of Montpelier, the state capital. A heavy snowfall, he said, would be a welcome change in Vermont, which got no snow on Tuesday while Philadelphia got 14 inches, Manalapan, N.J., got 16 inches and Hanover and Norwell, Mass., were buried by 18 inches.
"We are definitely suffering up here of snow jealousy," Stone said Wednesday.
To be clear, there's bone-chilling cold and there's some snow on the ground in Vermont, whose culture and livelihood thrive on it. And the 52 miles of trails the Sno-Bees are responsible for are open. But there's not enough snow to ride sleds and snowmobiles, Stone said.
"Lack of snow in Vermont affects absolutely everything you can think of from snowplowing to snow grooming to people being able to go out on a Sunday and actually take their cross-country skis," he said.
Mount Mansfield Union High School ninth-grader Jake Pratt, who skis competitively on the Smuggler's Notch Freeski team, said he'd had no snow days this year. Jake, 14, was envious of the kids in southern New England.
"It's probably nice for them because they have snow days," he said, "but it's annoying for us."
The average snowfall at the Burlington International Airport for this point in the winter is 37.5 inches. This year it's at 34.2 inches, but the cold, snowy periods have been followed quickly by thaws and rain.
And it's not just this season. The Sno-Bees membership has declined in recent years, Stone said.
"People are saying that they're selling their sleds because we're not getting the snow we are used to," he said.
Vermont is an "outlier" this year in terms of snowfall trends compared with the rest of New England, National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Nash said.
While ski resorts can make snow, they also suffer from the season's erratic weather patterns. The Killington ski resort, which offers year-round skiing and snowboarding on 200 trails, said it has gotten about 20 inches of natural snow less than usual and hasn't been able to open a new natural woods area where there's no snowmaking.
"The ups and downs of the temperature have been tough to deal with," Killington spokesman Michael Joseph said.
Natural snow ski area Mad River Glen Cooperative opened again on Wednesday despite shutting down earlier this season due to icy terrain.
"We've been getting those thaws and rains and freeze cycles over the last three weeks," marketing director Eric Friedman said. "It's been torturous."
Mad River Glen and Killington said they hope February and March bring more consistent snowfall, like last year.
Craig Carmody, owner of an outdoor recreation facility in Windsor, in the eastern part of the state, called the conditions this year terrible.
"We've gotten so much rain where I'm located," Carmody said. "A year ago, Massachusetts got hammered. They got so much snow buildings and roofs were collapsing, and we're up here waiting."
Since 2012, Carmody has hosted a winter festival to honor the Nordic god of winter, Ullr, known for skiing and skating.
"I think (Ullr's) really trying, but his navigational compass is off," Carmody said. "I think he was a little too south for us."
Stone, the snowmobile club trailmaster, said he doesn't like that southern New England and metropolitan areas have received the brunt of snowstorms this year. He said he had a message for Ullr: "Just give us some snow, please. We're begging."


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Recommended Reading
Maybe I'm just weird, but I happen to like reading. So, in case I have any fellow book lovers on here, I'm posting a reading list here. These are just some books that are interesting or make for good reference materials. This list is organized into categories, so just skim through the titles and pick one that strikes your fancy! If you guys have any questions about one of the books, comment or email me. You can't go wrong with any of them, though.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Life of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen
The Catholic Source Book by Rev. Peter Klein
Biblical Fundamentalism by Ronald D. Witherup
Christ Among Us by Anthony Wilhelm
The Catholicism Answer Book by Rev. John Trigilio, Jr. and Rev. Kenneth D. Brighenti
Reason and Religious Belief by Michael Peterson (there are three other authors, but you should be able to find it from this name)
Morality and Moral Controversies by John Arthur and Steven Scalet
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make it Into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman*
The Historical Atlas of Jerusalem by Dr. Ian Barnes and Josephine Bacon
The New Strong's Expanded Exhausted Concordance of the Bible by James Strong**
HarperCollins Bible Dictionary by Mark Allan Powell
Meeting St. Paul Today: Understanding the Man, His Mission, and His Message by Fr. Daniel Harrington
The Faith We Profess by Msgr. Peter J. Vaghi
Why Doctrines? by Charles Hefling***
The Meaning of Tradition by Fr. Yves Congar
Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction by Lawrence Boadt
Josephus: The Complete Works translated by William Whiston
What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O'Malley
By What Authority? by Richard R. Gaillardetz
Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church by H.W. Crocker III
The Teachings of the Church Fathers compiled by Fr. John R. Willis
A Life With Karol: My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz
Light of the World by Pope Benedict XVI (this book is the text of an interview between the Pope and Peter Seewald)
Catholic Q&A by Fr. John J. Dietzen
What is the Bible? by Henri Daniel-Rops
Spiritual Reading
The Bible
Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
The End of the Present World by Fr. Charles Arminjon
Saint John Newmann by Fr. Richard Boever
The Rule of St. Benedict by St. Benedict
Purgatory by Fr. Faber
The Diary of St. Faustina by St. Faustina
What Jesus Saw from the Cross by Fr. A.G. Sertillanges
7 Secrets of the Eucharist by Vinny Flynn
Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau by Fr. Jean Bernard
Loving and Living the Mass by Fr. Thomas Kocik
The Mystery of Joseph by Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe
Christ, The Life of the Soul by Bl. Columba Marmion
Union with God: Letters of Spiritual Direction by Bl. Columba Marmion (this book is a compilation of Bl. Columba Marmion's letters)
Fire of Love by St. Catherine of Genoa
Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith by Fr. Robert Barron
Why Do Catholics Do That? by Kevin Orlin Johnson
Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots by Scott Hahn
Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith by Scott Hahn
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth by Scott Hahn
Study Guide for the Lamb's Supper by Scott Hahn
Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God by Scott Hahn
The One-Minute Apologist by Dave Armstrong
A Biblical Defense of Catholicism by Dave Armstrong
Surprised by Truth 2 by Patrick Madrid
150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know by Patrick Madrid
*This book contains the text of books from the Christian Apocrypha, which are the books that did not make into the New Testament canon. It's useful to know what's in these books…but remember that they weren't put in the canon for a reason. Interesting reading, nevertheless.
**This book is one of my top favorites. Pick any word in the Bible, look it up (in English, Hebrew/Aramaic, or Greek), and see where that word or phrase appears in Scripture.
I've yet to read these books; haven't gone to the Pauline bookstore in a while. I read the Diary of St. Faustina, and I actually wanted to pick her as my saint, but I chose St. Therese of the Little Flower instead. I admired her "little way" and her persistence.
But what I'm really confused about, is that it's pretty hard to imagine Jesus crucified on the cross. It's difficult to picture anyway dying in such a painful and suffering way, but such a loving disposition. I also find it difficult to envision why anything that occurred 2000 yrs ago is relevant to today. Its hard to wrap your head around it.
One of the things that I struggle with the most in life is my self esteem. I was bullied quite badly as a younger child, and always had a hard time with myself. Many people have been extremely kind to me, despite all the hardships I've gone through in life. But I still struggle to know how Jesus, God, and Mary can have any love or mercy on me. How do we know that in spite of everything, they are there always and loving us no matter what? -
Also, have you considered putting up the YouCat? It's the Catechism of the Catholic Church explained for young people.
I have time, and I'm enjoying myself going through this website, so I'm probably going to leave a lot of comments today. I've read a number of these books and was pleased to see the list was so long! I love finding new books to read, especially if they help me grow in my faith. So thank you for this list!
Hey, I have to recommend the book I just finished reading!
WARNING: I am a St. Francis Xavier fanatic (though I'm more so for Christ!!!) so…that says a lot as to why I loved this book. It just so happened to be about him.
It's called "Set All Afire" and I started and finished it in one day, with school, homework, and mealtimes all in the way. It's written by Louis de Wohl. Yes, it is considered fictional, but I'm fairly certain most of the situations and the people were real, just the thoughts and dialogue etc. obviously weren't recorded in the 1500s. I 100% recommend it!


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A taste of Morocco… Zonder Meer*!
This year, Morocco has been on my mind and in my kitchen a lot.
The lack of sun or a crave for youth memories maybe.
While it's pouring cats & dogs back home, I feel so lucky to be enjoying a beautiful Indian summer in Morocco, at last.
There's also no better place for me to share some great news with you… And a taste of my Morocco:
Tomorrow my first article in Dutch will be published in the Dutch culinary and lifestyle magazine Zonder Meer. And it's all about Morocco.
Zonder Meer Magazine is a tasty and trendy magazine dedicated to people with an eating challenge (allergie or intolerance).
Next to sharing my favorite spots in two of my favorite Moroccan cities, Rabat and Marrakech, I also give some insight on the Moroccan cuisine (one of the best in the world ) and some tips on what to expect when traveling to Morocco with an eating challenge.
To stay in a Moroccan mood, I will also be sharing a taste of my favorite Moroccan dishes during a serie of cooking workshops upon my return. Can't wait!
Curious? Zonder Meer magazine fall edition is out today – at last! –
To get you in appetite, check out the website of Zonder Meer Magazine for a seasonal menu I've put together with three classic Moroccan dishes that will pep up your dining table this fall!
Here's what's on the menu:
Zaalouk, a cooked eggplant salad (that also makes a great spread), for starter
A M'Chermel style Chicken tajine with preserved lemon and olives as a main
And for dessert, a refreshing orange salad.
The recipes do not call for gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts or fish.
Of course, the article and recipes are in Dutch but I'll post the recipes in English in the coming weeks and there will be plenty of occasions for me to share travelling tips on Morocco in English around here ;-).
You can find an overview of my Moroccan recipes on the blog here
* 'zonder (without) meer (more)' would probably translates as 'nothing more'
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ohh! Can't wait to read the recipes in English! Sounds mouthwatering amazing. Beautiful photos too!
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1lb. Caravienne(now called Belgian Cara-20) 1lb. 2-row 1lb. White Wheat 5lb. Briess Wheat DME .5oz Amarillo whole (9.8 AA, 60 min.) .5oz Amarillo whole (9.8 AA, 15 min.) .5oz Amarillo whole (9.8 AA, 5 min.) .5oz Amarillo whole (9.8 AA, flameout) 1oz Amarillo whole (9.8 AA, dry-hop) 1oz Simcoe pellet (12.1 AA, dry-hop) Safale-05 fermented as noted I mashed the grains in a pot with a gallon of water for an hour at 152 and then dumped through a strainer into the brewpot, followed by another gallon of water as a sparge. I called this an extract recipe because it can be done with household items. A steeper could just steep the caravienne and add a half pound more of DME to the boil. This was my first experience with the "simarillo" dry-hop combination, and it is a winner. Big grapefruit aroma with the same flavor and a finish of tangerine. This is a very drinkable summer session beer for the lupomaniacs among us, but it will be a staple at my house year-round. I made this with Spartan Spring water and primaried as cool as I can, around 62-64 degrees. When it went to secondary it was pretty much ambient in my house. I've already drank 1/3 of my first batch with less than two weeks in the bottle. The big hop blast is already fading. Enjoy!! If anyone has access to Gumballhead I'm up for an exchange to compare. I realize that the real thing uses only amarillo, that is why I'm interested in tasting it. Grain bill for the AG crowd. All hop additions are the same since this was a full boil originally. 5lbs. Wheat malt 3.5lbs. 2-row 1lb. Caravienne(now called Belgian Cara-20) Mash at 152 OG 1.051 FG 1.012
Looking forward to brewing some beer
i've got the sample in the glass now cu. w aroma: wow the hops reach out of the glass and smack ya inthe nose. citrus from the holy land, tangerine mix with grapefruit is what i'm getting appearance: a hazy golden yellow reminescent of oberon. nice head on the pour with a fine lacing that is sticking around well. taste: grapefruit upfront with a limelike back of the tongue bite. mouthfeel: well carbed gives a nice round feel to this. not sure if i could drink more than a couple though, little too much carb fills ya up overall: i like this, the only change i can see is to maybe drop the primiung down a 1/4 or 1/2 volume. i'll be converting this to an AG recipe i believe. ps glad the amarillo went to a good cause
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Glad you enjoyed it Erik. I didn't account for the batch being a little short to bottles due to all of the leaf hops in the kettle and in secondary when I primed it with the full 5 oz. of priming sugar.
This does look interesting. Maybe closer to the spring/summer I'll have to get this on tap.~M~
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Are the grains in this recipe for steeping, or is this a partial mash recipe? I was under the impression that 2-row and white wheat were must mash grains. Would I be missing much if I made this without the White wheat and 2 row?
when you steep with 2row it will convert and in essence you are mashing it.
Thanks for the pickup erik. I feel that the key grain here is the caravienne. It adds a candy-like sweetness to the citrus flavor in the back of your throat. This one will act on the beer whether steeped or mashed. I'm kind of in a "want to do AG" rut and will make a mini-mash with the grains just because it makes me feel like I have a bit more control. You could either steep a lb. of caravienne and add ~.5 lb. wheat DME or mash the three lbs. of grain at 152 for an hour. I've switched to pellet amarillo for the last three batches because I liked this beer so much I bought a pound but will switch back to leaf after that because there's just a little teeny something missing in the finish. Some may say that this is too sweet to be a summer beer, but the FG doesn't lie. I'm anxiously awaiting someone to brew this. This beer will take summer OVER!.............sorry.
Another tasty sounding brew added to my list....
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Hello! I have a large rose of Sharon Bush that is very healthy and plenty of books. I haven't pruned it since I moved in my house which was 3 years ago. I also don't know how well it was cared for prior to me buying house. Every year is been a great bloomer as expected, but this year after a hard rain all of the branches started drooping! It's healthy and still blooming. The rain was over a week ago but the branches haven't resumed to their upright position since. Any one know what's going on or how I can remedy the issue? |
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DD and Jim CathcartBrown marmorated stink bugs in Midtown Sacramento.The brown marmorated stink bug continues to spread in Northern California.
It was first confirmed in the Midtown and downtown areas of Sacramento earlier this year.
Now it has spread to Yuba City, about 50 miles to the north, according to an Extension newsletter.
Because the California Department of Food and Agriculture classifies it as a B pest, no eradication is planned.
It is estimated the stink bug may have been in the Sacramento area for two to three years, possibly longer.
They are strong fliers and can cover up to 1/2 mile. Because of this, University of California Extension farm advisers recommend growers and pest control adviers be on the lookout for these true bugs.
Several pheromone traps are available, but most are not effective at catching the bug until populations are high.
Control of BMSB is challenging, since few products are effective. Using pyrethroids, organophosphates and neonicotinoids may distrupt integrated pest management programs, too.
Even if you treat a field, they can quickly migrate in from nearby areas.
They feed on a wide variety of crops, ranging from pome and stone fruit to peppers, tomatoes and even corn.
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Mix Of The Day: Daniel Avery- BIS Radio
If you don't know about Daniel Avery yet you soon will as the fabric resident just keeps churning out quality output from his productions to his mixes. After greatly enjoying his Fabric Live mix a few months ago the soundtrack to our afternoon here at DT has been the excellent BIS Radio show set Daniel put in. Available for free download it's definitely worth a listen.
1. The Sonic Aesthetic - Mendicant Adventures - International Feel
2. Black Merlin - Brunswick Drive (Scott Fraser Remix) - Bird Scarer
3. The Asphodells - We Are The Axis (Daniel Avery Remix) - Rotters Golf Club
4. Daniel Avery - Drone Logic - Phantasy
5. Dimitri Veimar - Acid Opens Wider
6. Semedo - Love Illusion (Capracara Remix) - Body Work
7. DC Salas - Don't Be Scared
8. Tim Paris - John Carpenter Is Playing In My House (Remain Remix) - Family N.A.M.E
9. Nautiluss - Zero Gravity (Avery's Codeine Edit) - 3024
10. Roundhouse Kick - Industrial Dream - One Eyed Jacks
11. XY-Me - Chicago - Join Our Club
12. Morgan Hammer - Red Fingers - Clouded Vision
13. Casino Times - I Wanna Know (Dave DK Remix) - Needwant
14. Project E - Umbrella Creatures - Merc
When you're done with that check out 'Water Jump' below. With productions like this we're expecting big things of the Londoner in the coming year...


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Green Mountain Book Award
This is the tenth year of the Green Mountain Book Award, a reader's choice award for students in grades 9-12. Co-sponsored by the Vermont Department of Libraries and the Vermont School Library Association, this program is designed to introduce to high school students some excellent books for their pleasure reading.
These books, to be read during the 2014-2015 school year, comprise the master list for the award to be made in 2015. Voting forms will be made available to all Vermont schools and public libraries in the spring so that young adults can vote for their favorite book. The master list titles have been selected to satisfy the reading interests of teens in grades 9-12, and include both adult and young adult books. All books on the list were first published in 2011-2013.
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Six Colorado pumpkin beers to help you get your gourd on
Pumpkin beers. Love 'em or hate 'em, they are becoming more prevalent every year -- and hitting liquor store shelves earlier and earlier. In fact, there were several varieties available in mid-July despite the fact that people were still lighting up leftover fireworks. Now that it's September and the cool air is flowing in, it's time to take a look at a few new or special pumpkin offerings from Colorado breweries.
The following should make for a nice six-pack.
See also: The ultimate calendar to the Great American Beer Festival 2013
Imperial Pumpkin
Dry Dock Brewing
Dry Dock took the traditional pumpkin beer it had been brewing for several years for the taproom only and ramped it up to 9 percent ABV for this bomber bottle release. And while the alcohol lends a smooth, sweet flavor, it is well hidden by the spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice and cloves.
New Belgium Brewing
New Belgium refreshes its lineup every couple of years, and this season it's added Pumpkick, a traditional pumpkin beer with the "added kick" of cranberries to give it a slightly tart taste. Pumpkick is also brewed with cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. The 6 percent ABV beer "pours a rosy orange glow with light haze and cream-colored foam," the brewery says. Pumpkick hit shelves in July.
Fermentation Without Representation
Epic Brewing
When Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing opened its major new Denver brewery in July, that meant that the brewery's beers would all be distributed in Colorado. So although Fermentation Without Representation Imperial Pumpkin Porter isn't a new beer, it's new to us, and it will now be brewed in Denver. A collaboration with DC Brau, the 8 percent ABV is made with pumpkin, vanilla, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves, and it carries a chocolate flavor from the malts that makes it rich, warming and unusual.
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Updated Fri, Apr 27, 2012 2:50 pm
A video from 2008 provides glimpses into the lives of exotic animals once owned by an Ohio man who last year released them before committing suicide.
The video was obtained when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents executed a search warrant on Terry Thompson's Zanesville property in June 2008.
The video shows a bear being fed, as well as shots of a caged monkey, and caged lions, tigers and a black leopard.
It's unclear if any of the animals were among those police killed last fall as they responded to reports of loose animals after Thompson's suicide.
At the time of his death Thompson had only been home a few weeks after spending a year in prison on a gun conviction.


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CatMet Management Group Minutes
April 4, 2012
Attendees: Peter Bushnell, Jane Anne Carey, Jimmie Lundgren, Hikaru Nakano, Betsy Simpson, Priscilla Williams, Naomi Young
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Great progress is being made on the pre-merge clean-up projects.
FCLA is developing the migration timeline. Aleph downtime is expected, but it is uncertain how long it will be. FCLA is considering possible workarounds that would allow at least some work to continue.
Post-merge priority report requests are due to FCLA by April 6.
Storage projects
The Stogen and Dedup lull is over and catalogers are returning to ALF.
CMG discussed Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) concerning Cataloging as part of a broader effort throughout the Libraries to examine internal and external impacts on operations. Units were encouraged to do a similar exercise.
Serial training
Naomi is discussing with Library HR an initiative to develop local online serial training modules.


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November 14, 2012
ED I applications were due yesterday. Seriously, where did the time go? The ED II application is due January 1 so get started on those applications early! I never applied Early Decision but I ended up filling all of my applications last minute and it was the worst.
For most of you guys, you're reaching the halfway mark of your senior year in high school and the thought of that can be terrifying. I know, because I was absolutely terrified. It's been three years since that moment and I can't even remember why I was scared! There are so many things to look forward to college.
After graduation, you'll leave the nest to make a new home. You'll meet new faces, and ask awkward questions, and find others who have the same quirky obsessions and interests that you do. You'll create lifelong friendships and later laugh about how it all started in a cramped dorm room with no central air. You'll learn in (co-ed!) classrooms. You'll study, discover more about what you want and how to get it. You'll travel, see the world. You'll crunch through snow-covered grass in the winter and sprawl out in sun-warmed green when the weather heats up again. You'll try things - some things that you'll later wish you hadn't - and you'll learn from every new experience. You'll grow up. You'll grow older. And in some ways you won't change at all. Starting over is definitely a challenge - especially for babies like me who are terrified of change. But it's also very exciting and fun, especially at Hamilton!
Good luck to everyone!
Major / Minor: English / Sociology
Activities: Gamma Xi, HEAT, National Eating Disorder Awareness Week committee, The Spectator features editor, Continental magazine, Her Campus president/editor-in-chief
Favorite Pastimes: Online shopping, watching Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, midnight breakfast at the diner, procrastination and naps (usually in the library)
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the title bout in this year's politcal lineup. In the left corner, wearing a host of tax and toll increases, a budget shortfall of more than $2.1 billion and scars of scandals with unions, ex-girlfriends and cabinet officials is Jon "Almost Gone" Corzine.
In the right corner, wearing a corruption busting image, over 130 successful prosecutions, and the hopes of millions who want to improve the quality of life in New Jersey………..Chris "You Can't Miss" Christie.
Many expect New Jersey's headline political battle to shape up this way. The incumbent governor is, as usual, expected to seek reelection and go unchallenged for their party's nomination. In this case that is Jon Corzine. As for Republicans, Chris Christie is expected to run and win the Republican nomination for governor. Christie has finally made it clear that he will be declaring his candidacy and making it official in February. Many anticipate that he will ultimately win the Republican nomination for Governor and given the atmosphere and logistics, that may be likely.
The establishment is behind him and the money is being horded for him. Party leaders and elected officials have been lining up behind Christie like teenagers on line for Britney Spears' latest CD. They are putting all their hopes on Chris Christie because he has some higher than usual name recognition when compared to other possible choices or at least more statewide recognition than most of them.
The thinking is that his name recognition will give us the best chance to defeat Corzine. New Jersey is a unique state, in that without its own media market, getting statewide name identification is very difficult. That is why most candidates have to run in at least one statewide election before they can win a statewide election.
Take McGreevey and Whitman for example.
To get name ID also takes a lot of money, more money than most campaigns in other states would. That is because a candidate has to invest in New York, the most expensive media market in the nation, and Philadelphia, the third most expensive media market in the nation. That makes it rough. So I undertsand the value in wanting a nominee for Governor who has some good recognition in New Jersey but I wouldn't pin all of my hopes and my party on that alone.
Add to that the fact that Christie's opponent for the nomination could actually prove to be more satisfactory candidates for the nomination to rank and file primary voters and you have the potential for an upset in the G.O.P. race for the gubernatorial nomination.
On the other side of the aisle you have Jon Corzine.
Incumbents usually do not get challenged and Corzine is no different here. However, many Democrats are not so sure that they want him to run for reelection.
Corzine himself is doubtful.
Not because he doesn't want the job, but because he is not sure that he can make a case good enough for reelecting him to continue doing the piss poor job that he has been doing.
That is why he maneuvered himself for an appointment to President-Elect Obama's cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. The hope was that he could avoid an embarrassing reelection loss by saying "sorry, I have to leave to answer a higher call to duty".
Well, given Corzine's dismal financial record in New Jersey, no one wanted him to do for America what he did for Jersey. So state Democrats are left with having to try to carry Corzine's dead weight over the electoral finish line.
They are hoping that by linking Chris Christie to President George Bush, they could make Corzine more preferable. So despite the fact that Chris Christie has done his job successfully and put an end to the career of more corrupt politicians than anyone in recent state history, Democrats simply say he Chris Christie was appointed by George Bush.
Well duh………and he did his job better than most Democrats have done their own jobs.
So with little to go on, Democrats are scared.
They fear that Corzine is vulnerable and that they could lose to Republicans.
And they're right to think that way.
That is where things get interesting. POLITICS 24/7 understands that not only may Corzine not be up to reelection , he may not be up for his party's nomination.
Senate President Richard Codey just might step up yet again.
Over the past several years years, Codey has been called upon to govern the state during several different times of crisis.
Those occasions included when disgraced Governor Jim McGreevey resigned amid financial, patronage and sex scandals and most recently after Governor Corzine almost died in a tragic accident that he encountered while speeding down the Garden State Parkway without his seatbelt on.
Putting Codey's political leanings aside, he is viewed as a steady hand at the helm, a wise sage of New Jersey politics who can be trusted. Whether this is true or not does not matter. That is how he is viewed and politics is perception. He has never sought the job of Governor but governed when called upon to do so. That kind of reputation is a good one to have. People do not see him as power hungry or ego driven. They see him as a reliable, trustworthy figure.
That is why there are rumblings to have him be the Democrats nominee for Governor.
The move would be a smart one for liberals in New Jersey.
It would be a smarter choice than opting to defend the abysmal record of Jon Corzine. With Dick Codey as their nominee, they will not have to defend against the stream of legal challenges that are pending in the courts against Corzine.
They will not have to defend against proposals to make the cost of driving on New Jersey's roads so expensive that you need a part time job just to pay for the tolls that Corzine would be increasing for decades to come if he had his way.
Having Dick Codey as their standard bearer, Democrats will not have to explain why under his reign, the affordability crisis in New Jersey has gotten worse and why after raising taxes by as much as $2 billion dollars when his term began, we have a deficit of $2.1 billion dollars as his term ends. Of course Codey would have to answer to why he rubberstamped many of the Corzine led initiatives but at least he will not have to try to explain why he initiated them.
The most controversial part of the Codey nomination is how he will get it.
Insiders are hoping that it can be arranged so that late in the game, Jon Corzine will announce that for personal reason, he is not seeking a second term or that another responsible has called him.
That will allow Democrat party leaders to turn to Codey and say, with only a short amount of time left to nominate their party's choice, they feel that they need Dick Codey to once again step in and save the day.
Is this likely?
Considering that Corzine has been looking for a way out of running for reelection and saving face, I believe that in a few months Corzine will receive a request to serve in the administration of President-Elect Obama. Not a cabinet position but a lesser position. One that Democrats can conjure up and provide Corzine with the excuse he needs in to save face.
So don't expect this boxing match to be the one you expect. Not only does Chris Christie have yet to enter the ring as the G.O.P.'s official nominee for Governor, Democrats just might be putting the gloves on someone with more of a punch than Jon Corzine.
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Speaking of the upcoming inauguration, you can celebrate the end of Bush in a uniquely personal manner. Sex advice columnist Kristen Chase (also known as "Mominatrix") is encouraging everyone to "Shave the Date", or as she puts it "leave no bush behind". She claims that it will give you a special tingle to realize that at the moment that this country gets rid of Bush, you will have gotten rid of yours.
Her column even includes advice on how to shave your pubes, for first-time Bush removers. She also has a Facebook event — shaving your bush is not required for participation, but is strongly encouraged due to sexual satisfaction and patriotism that will be enjoyed.
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235 years ago the residents of the American colonies had enough. They could no longer quietly tolerate the oppression of a ruling authority that dictated too much. They were tired of the majesty's demands upon them and it all came to a head in Boston when the cry of "taxation without representation" resulted in a tea party that was anything but sedate or civil. Back then, American colonists were developing a sense of independence that wanted government out of their lives. They wanted to make their own wages without a ruling authority limiting how much of it they could earn. They wanted the right to have a say in the way their territory was run. This spirit led to the Declaration of Independence and eventually it led to the birth of what the world would came to know as the freest, most innovative and powerful nation in the universe.
Today, we still hold that impressive title but many of us see it being lost.
That greatness is a bi-product of freedom. A freedom that has allowed individuals to flourish well beyond the limited framework that any one established authority could set it's people on. The diversity of thinking, and goals has created the greatest pool of ideas known to man.
Our freedom and individuality has been the key to our greatness but unlike the people of colonial America, today, Americans are giving up their freedom and relinquishing their individuality to a controlling authority that they want to give greater control to.
Instead of demanding "no taxation without representation" we are accepting of the practice.
If you live in New Jersey but work in New York, in addition to a litany of federal taxes and state taxes, you have to pay a commuter tax. Does paying that tax give New Jerseyans the chance to vote for leaders and representatives in New York? Heck no! But without any representation for them in New York, they are forced to pay taxes to New York.
This scenario is not limited to New York. It exists almost everywhere in the nation but that does not make it right. It is simply an indication of the spirit that has been lost since days of old.
Further indication of this is made in other areas of government.
Instead of that sense of responsibility that the colonists had, today we look towards government for everything. Where the colonists wanted less of the majesty's governance, we want more of the federal bureaucracy's governance.
Have a business that isn't successful? Let the government bail you out.
Want to start a business? Let the government give you a grant to do it.
Lost money on a business deal or investment? Let the government give you the money back.
Let the government do everything and pay for everything, right?
The money the government gives you is not theirs to give away. It is your money, it is our money. It is the tax dollars we let them take from us and the more we refuse to do for ourselves, the more money they take from us.
Economically, that doesn't sound like a bad thing but in reality it is anything but a good deal.
When the bureaucracy of government does something, they do so in a way that costs much more than any individual or private sector institution can. So by letting the government do more, is allowing more money to be wasted. If you needed a hammer would you buy one for 8 bucks at Home Depot yourself or would you buy the same one from the Pentagon for 108 dollars?
The government needs to get out of our business and Americans need to recapture the independent spirit that founded this country and made us the great nation that we are.
We need to start doing for ourselves what we have come to expect government to do for us. Our reliance on a controlling authority has taken control of our lives away from us. That reliance has created a dependency that has led to the growth of government and that growth has created the need for more money. Money that is raised by increasing the taxes that the people have to pay.
The Boston Tea Party may not have been a cozy afternoon gathering but it was a good thing. It signaled our deep rooted yearning for our God given freedom and believe it or not, freedom is still a good thing.
235 years later Americans are far removed from that fact. Instead of demanding less government and more personal freedom, we ask for more government and more government action. Instead of protesting excessive taxation we just held an election that endorsed more taxes and "spreading the wealth around".
Maybe we will have to lose some of our freedom in order to realize what all the hullabaloo in Boston was about.
Slowly we already have lost some of our freedoms but apparently not enough. Not enough to select candidates who want to limit government. Not enough to force representatives to stop trying to solve problems by restricting our freedoms and creating more problems.
Just how much freedom we must lose before we begin to miss it, is quite important.
That freedom made us the great power and people that we are and the more of it that we lose, the further from greatness we shall fall.
So today, before charging the spouses gift on that past due credit card, take a moment and reflect on the participants of the Boston Tea Party. A bunch of colonists who saw more value in their freedom than any Christmas gift. A group of soon to be Americans whose desires for a better life led them to renounce the authority of a government for the sake of their freedom and the eventual freedom that we have come to take for granted and whittle away.
A man took a trip out West after a harrowing IRS audit. He stopped in a bar, and after a few drinks, stated to no one in particular, "IRS agents are horses' asses."
One of the locals spoke up on hearing this: "Mister, you'd better watch what you say. You're in horse country."
POLITICS 24/7 has often stated that not only is state government too big but that there are too many governments in the state. Based on the relatively small size of New Jersey, why there is a need for more than 650 municipal governments, is beyond me. Drive down any road in New Jersey and you will find yourself entering a new and different town every 3 or 4 minutes.
As stated here in the past, the proliferation of governments in this state is actually a major part of the problems that we face in the state. The affordability crisis we are enduring is in large part due to the costs of operating all these governments. It costs a lot of money to operate and employ all these fire departments, police departments, borough halls, staffs, permit departments, and so on and so on. It also creates an atmosphere ripe with the opportunity for corruption.
Between the patronage, construction and service contracts, the ability to "spread the wealth around" runs rampant. But the wealth that is spread around is that of the taxpayers. While their wealth is taken away from them, those in charge of spreading it are doing so among their own friends, families, mistresses and fellow power brokers.
The existing arrangement has helped to make government one of the largest employers in the state. It has also helped to define New Jersey as one of the most state corrupt states in the Union, a title often in dispute with Louisiana but recently surpassed only by Illinois. The arrest of Illinois' Democrat Governor, Rod Blagojevich, for trying to sell President-Elect Obama's newly available senate seat, along with other sleazy intentions, has helped take the title away from us. But we are still among the three most corrupt states at the top of that list.
Bridge commissioners, state contractors, council members, freeholders, county executives, judicial officials, cabinet members, party chairmen, state senators, assembly members and more have all been getting arrested, indicted, and sentenced in astonishing numbers.
Just today a former assembly candidate pleaded guilty in the same bribery scandal that took out his opponent for the assembly seat that he ran for, a former Assemblyman.
For the past seven years, potential Republican candidate for Governor, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, has largely been responsible for exposing and successfully prosecuting the government corruption that has caused much of the public to lose their faith in public servants.
Having first hand experience with combating corruption, Christie knows about what he speaks of and today, speaking before an event sponsored by the New Jersey Business and Industry Association and Cherry Hill Regional Chamber of Commerce, the former crime buster stated that the reason for all the corruption in New Jersey was because "we just have too much government."
Now that what we at POLITICS 24/7 have known all along has been confirmed by an expert in the area, what do we do about? Well first of all, New Jersey needs to embark on the initiatives of others like Senator Joe Kyrillos of Monmouth County. Senator Kyrillos has been pushing for consolidation. The type of consolidation which would make some of New Jersey's less populous towns merge with larger neighboring towns.
This measure was actually proposed in legislation first sponsored by a former assemblyman, Republican Michael Arnone. In the late '90's, Assemblyman Arnone saw the need to curtail the spreading of governments in New Jersey the same way that we try to prevent the spreading of the flu.
Like a disease, the inordinate number of governments, along with their increasing size scope and staffs, have infected the state with a governing class that survives by doling out plumb, patronage positions and entering into corrupt contracts filled with kickbacks.
Does consolidation solve our problem? Nope, it sure doesn't. Greed and other less attractive qualities that are sometimes a part of human nature will always exist.
However, with less governments available for corruption to breed in, the less corruption will be born. For me, Chris Christie's remark is promising. If he truly believes what he said, it may bode well for his possible candidacy.
Small government conservatives will certainly appreciate the direction that his comment would take us in.
Now if he can only expand on that remark. If he does run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, will he help to do more than offer lip service to state consolidation?
Will he provide the initiatives of Senator Kyrillos with the type of support that is needed to influence liberal lawmakers to pass such measures?
Whether Christie runs or not, we need more leaders who are willing to solve our problems by acknowledging what the problems are and in New Jersey the problem is government.
-Jay Leno
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Hypnotist Arrested for Public Intoxication
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) -- Police say a hypnotist hired to provide alcohol-free entertainment at a post high school prom event in Marshalltown was arrested for public intoxication.
Marshalltown Police say 43-year-old Terry Woodward was taken into custody early Sunday morning. A message left for Woodward's attorney was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Woodward is accused of showing up drunk before a 3 a.m. performance at the Marshalltown YMCA-YWCA. He was hired to perform for GMG High School.
Capt. Brian Batterson says people reported Woodward smelled like alcohol. He had no interaction with students before his arrest.
The talent agency that hired Woodward says he has been fired.
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