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Historic marriage united two worlds
On April 10 of this year, just days before the much-heralded celebration across the Atlantic uniting Kate Middleton and Prince William, some 200 onlookers gathered by the lake at Dorey Park to witness the royal wedding of the century. The 17th century, that is. In a simple ceremony, with members of the Varina Women's Club, the Chickahominy and Nansemond Indian tribes, and re-enactors from Henricus Historical Park observing and participating, an Indian maiden and a young gentleman joined hands and recited age-old vows: "to love, comforte [and] honour . . for richer, for poorer, in sickenes and in healthe." With those vows – taken from the 1559 Book of Common Prayer that guided the original ceremony in 1614 – stand-ins for Pocahontas and John Rolfe brought to life the wedding that not only united an Englishman and a Native American in matrimony, but also united two nations in a peace that was key to Virginia's survival as a colony. Until the 1614 union of Rolfe and his bride, who took the Christian name Rebecca, relations between the colonists and the Indians had been tenuous and uneasy at best. One week, the settlers might have traded peacefully with a tribe – but by the next week, they were often fighting with another tribe. "[Peace] was very sporadic," notes Jenny Nelson, one of the organizers of the re-enactment. "They were always sniping at each other." Because this union of Pocahontas and John Rolfe was instrumental in helping the Virginia colony to survive and grow, the Henrico Citizen ranks the event No. 11 in its list of significant events in Henrico history. It was this significance, says Nelson, that inspired her and her fellow members of the Varina Woman's Club (VWC) to organize the wedding re-enactment as a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Henrico County in 2011. Not only was the original wedding significant to the history of the county, says Nelson; the "wedding gift" equivalent was also rooted in Varina, where Pocahontas' father designated a tract of land on which the newlyweds would settle. In keeping with the Native American tradition, however, Powhatan believed that no one could own Mother Earth. Rather than give it to his daughter and her husband, he "set aside" the land. A crush, and a marriage From all appearances – while it was John Rolfe that Pocahontas would marry – she may have first had a girlish crush on Capt. John Smith. The lively daughter of Chief Powhatan, leader of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region, Pocahontas was her father's "most deare and wel-beloved" offspring. Known as Mataoka among her own people, the playful, frolicsome girl acquired the childhood nickname of Pocahontas, which translated as "little wanton." Her first meeting with Smith in December 1607 has become the subject of legend and film, much romanticized by Smith and questioned by historians. Exploring the Chickahominy River, Smith – according to his own account – was captured by a hunting party led by Powhatan's younger brother Opechancanough and brought to Powhatan's capital near Jamestown. Initially welcomed and offered a feast, Smith was later grabbed and forced to stretch out on two large, flat stones, while Indians armed with clubs stood ready, it seemed, to beat him to death. When it appeared that John Smith was going to be executed, young Pocahontas rushed forward, took Smith's head in her arms, "and laid her owne upon his to save him from death." Although "execution and salvation" ceremonies were traditional among the Indians, and Pocahontas's actions may have been part of a ritual, early histories confirm that Pocahontas befriended Smith and the Jamestown colony. Pocahontas visited the settlement often, playing games with the boys there, delivering messages from her father and accompanying Indians bringing food and furs to trade for hatchets and trinkets. During the long, hungry winter season, she regularly brought provisions to Smith and the colonists, and has been credited with saving them from starvation. But as the colonists expanded their settlement further into native lands, relations began to deteriorate. Late in the summer of 1609, a conflict flared between the settlers and Indians that became known as the First Anglo-Powhatan War. Soon afterwards, Smith suffered a seriously burned leg in a gunpowder explosion and had to return to England for medical treatment. When Pocahontas next came to visit the fort, she was told that her friend was dead, and she stopped visiting. Sometime during the next year or two, Pocahontas married an Indian warrior named Kocoum and settled with him in the Potomac River area. When Captain Samuel Argall learned of Pocahontas' whereabouts, he set out to kidnap her, intending to trade her for concessions from Powhatan. Capturing Pocahontas in spring of 1613 (legend has it that she was betrayed by relatives in return for a copper kettle), Argall sent word to Powhatan that he would return his daughter only if the chief exchanged her for some English prisoners and for weapons and tools that the Indians had stolen. Powhatan sent only enough of the ransom to keep negotiations open, and asked that his daughter be treated well. Pocahontas eventually was taken to Henricus, where she lived for a year with Reverend and Mrs. Alexander Whittaker. During her captivity she began to learn English ways, converted to Christianity and was baptized, and caught the eye of tobacco planter John Rolfe. Before long, Rolfe had obtained Powhatan's permission to marry his daughter, and took up his pen to write the governor to request permission. A deeply religious man, Rolfe agonized for weeks over the decision to marry a "heathen" Indian. In his letter to the governor, he expressed his love for her and his belief he would be saving her soul; in addition, he said, the union would be good for the Virginia Colonies. In fact, Pocahontas' Christian name, Rebecca, may have been chosen to symbolize that desire for union. As the mother of Jacob and Esau in the Book of Genesis, Rebecca was considered a mother of two "nations," or distinct peoples. Pocahontas, in a sense, could also be viewed as the mother of two nations. 'Peace of Pocahontas' Although the marriage was unsuccessful in winning back the English captives, it marked the beginning of the "Peace of Pocahontas" that ensured friendly relations between the colonists and Powhatan's tribes, helped bring an end to the First Anglo-Powhatan War, and enabled the Virginia settlement to grow and survive. "Since the wedding," wrote one colonist in 1615, "we have had friendly commerce and trade not only with Powhatan but also with his subjects round about us." At Varina Farms, just across the James River from Henricus, Pocahontas worked alongside her husband in the tobacco fields, giving birth to son Thomas in 1615. The following year, the family accompanied Sir Thomas Dale on a promotional voyage to London designed to spur investment in the Virginia Company. To insure ample publicity for his cause, Dale brought Pocahontas and a dozen Algonquian Indians, hoping that she would serve as a symbol of the tamed New World "savage" and the success of the Jamestown settlement. In England, Pocahontas was treated as a celebrity, presented at the court of King James I and entertained by The Lord Bishop of London. At one society gathering, she was shocked to encounter John Smith, whom she had long believed to be dead. According to Smith's account of the meeting, Pocahontas was so overcome with emotion that she hid her face and was speechless for two or three hours. After almost a year in England, Rolfe and Pocahontas set sail in March 1617 to return to Virginia. The ship made it only to Gravesend on the River Thames when Pocahontas became gravely ill with a respiratory affliction -- perhaps pneumonia or tuberculosis. She was taken ashore and died, and while the site of her grave is unknown, her memory is honored in Gravesend with a life-size bronze statue at St. George's Church. John Rolfe returned to Virginia, leaving son Thomas in England to be educated. A climate of peace continued to prevail in the colony -- at least until Chief Powhatan died and his brother Opechancanough took over. In 1622, Opechancanough attacked the colony and massacred 350 people in one hour. John Rolfe died that same year, although it is unclear whether he perished in the attack or as a result of illness. Who would have thought? When she first began working on the wedding re-enactment, says Jenny Nelson, "I had no idea it would end up to be such a production." But the retired librarian from Baker Elementary School – who also taught Henrico County history to teachers in the 1970s – soon found herself relishing the task. Although Varina Farms, the VWC's first choice of wedding venues, is privately owned and could not be used, Nelson was pleased with the Dorey Park site. Representatives from Henrico's Department of Recreation and Parks decorated the surroundings in 17th-century splendor, in addition to providing the park's barn for a post-wedding reception. "And we could not have had the wedding – no matter where it was held – without Henricus [re-enactors] and the Chickahominy Tribe," says Nelson. "They made it look so authentic." The event even received a write-up, accompanied by a portrait of all the participants, in the Greater Federation of Women's Clubs' national magazine. Perhaps even more rewarding, says Nelson, was the feedback she received from spectators. "I had several people tell me it was the best wedding they ever attended," she says, adding with a laugh, "Some told me it was the best wedding they ever attended where no one actually got married!" Birdie Sours of the Chickahominy Tribe, who served as a consultant for the wedding, says that the Native American participants were "elated" to be asked to asked to contribute. "This event brought a wealth of knowledge to life," says Sours. "Club members, the Henricus actors and our people breathed life into this event, making it a wonderful living history." Although Sours reflects that the Native American people would ultimately "suffer disastrously" in their confrontations with the settlers, the joining of the nations has also brought tremendous positive change. And while history books might characterize the encounter as a joining of the Old World (Europe) with the New World, says Sours, the Native Americans see the union somewhat differently: as the joining of two old worlds to Mother Earth. "Who would have thought," says Sours, "that a simple marriage – an economic union between a man and a woman – would have such far-reaching tentacles that have brought global changes of good to Mother Earth?" |
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Hundreds of 'tweens' and their moms will attend the Secret Keeper Girl Crazy Hair Tour at West End Assembly of God on Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m., a popular Bible-based tour geared toward building and strengthening relationships between mothers and their daughters (typically ages 8 to 12).
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OutRVA and Say I Do! have collaborated to offer LGBT couples an opportunity to win an all-expenses-paid wedding at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's Robins Tea House on March 7.
In September, Richmond Region Tourism launched OutRVA, a campaign designed to show people Richmond's strong LGBT community and highlight the area as a travel destination.
The winning couple will say "I do" in a ceremony coordinated by event designer and floral artist Casey Godlove of Strawberry Fields Flowers & Gifts and marriage concierge, Ayana Obika of All About The Journey. The couple will receive wardrobe and styling, a custom wedding cake, florals, an overnight stay at the Linden Row Inn (including a suite on the day of the wedding for preparation), and a post-wedding brunch at the Hilton Garden Inn on Sunday, March 8. > Read more.
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CVWMA residential recycling and trash collections will continue as regularly scheduled for the Lee-Jackson (Jan. 16) and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Jan. 19) holidays. Residential recycling collections on Friday, Jan. 16 and the week of Jan 19-23 will take place on normal collection day. Residents should place recycling container(s) out for pick-up by 7 a.m. on their regular scheduled collection day. > Read more.
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CAT Theatre announces auditions for 'Quartet'
CAT Theatre will hold auditions for Quartet on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 22, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Auditions will be held at the theatre, located at 319 N. Wilkinson Road in Richmond. Quartet will run May 22 through June 6 and will close out CAT's 51st season.
Director Laurie Follmer is seeking two males, ages 50-70 and two females ages 50-70. British accents are required for roles and are requested for auditions. There is no actual singing in the show. Singing ability and experience is not a requirement. Audition sides are available at http://www.cattheatre.com on the Audition Page. > Read more.
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It's off to the theatre – this weekend in Henrico! "Two on Tap" at CACGA brings audiences back in time to an era when couples like Fred & Ginger and Mickey & Judy filled the silver screen. CAT Theatre's production of "Book of Days" begins tonight and runs through Feb. 7. Fans of the Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon "Schoolhouse Rock!" will love the live adaptation at the University of Richmond on Sunday. The Shanghai Quartet will also perform at the University of Richmond. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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my DH has a Lincoln Town Car, about 100,000 miles. Up here these puppies are on the road forever, even the limo services purchase them.
DD has a Chevy Caviler
DS has a a cherry '91 Olds Cutlass
I have a Ram truck
and our ole stand-by is a 93 Chevy Blazer. She will start in any weather, plow through any snow storm. Never Whines or cries. She is starting to look like an old hag, but nothing messes with her.
City of Chicago Public Schools are now out sourcing teaching to India.
They tested plopping limited students in front of a TV Screen with headphones hooked up to a tutor from I believe India. It has worked out so well that they are rushing to greatly expand teaching positions to India and to far more public schools.
Yep, we are a stupid society. Wonder what professions will be left for the next generation. Maybe we will have to immigrate to India?
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I can get to both Sam's and Costco. Have memberships for both, perk of your own business.
Sams-chocolate squares. (they are the size of sugar cubes, rolled in either sugar, powdered sugar, or sweetened coco) Slurp.
The Dark Side has Chocolate.
Political Commercials.
Personal experiences DEFINITELY shape our opinions.
To be fair, my first car was a '71 Olds Cutlass w/ 90,000 miles on it that I bought in '78 for $1,250. Drove the you-know-what outta' that thing. I was 16...! I put another 95,000 on it before it finally started having major probs. Mechanically good, everything else falling apart around it.
And pop still has his '70 Chevy Camper Special that we drove between Cali. an Tx. and back in as high as 120 degree heat, although the motor has been rebuilt once.
My problem is, I'm old enough to remember when, beginning in about '70, the big 3 REALLY started to go WAYYYYY downhill. Does anyone remember the Chevy Vega, the Ford Pinto or the Mustang II?
The GM X-cars, the Chrysler K-cars, or the Ford Fairmont and Futura?
Thank the Lord THAT never became the "Futura"!!!
Biggest piles of embarassing **** to ever come off an assembly line.
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The big 3 got fat and lazy and sat on their fat laurels (and probably their Hardy's, too ) and then when the Japanese came along and undercut them in price & mileage, and OVERcut them in general quality, they STARTED to wake up, and they've been playin' "Catch-up" ever since.
Walt would have been appalled...!!!
Oh, and...
Somethin' I heard on GMA yesterday...
The lead engineer at Toyota was said to have commited seppaku.
Rough trade, that...
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Yes, there's more...!
The main thing that upsets-me-off the most , is I know WE can be WAYYYYY better than that!!!!! We've proven it...!
Where's my lobster?!?!
Oh, and, one last thing... Rant-wise, anyway...!
Does having the legal right-of-way make you any less dead because you didn't take the time to check if you might get hammered anyway?
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Not only is the Dark side EXTREMELY appetizing, but it's VERY theraputicacacacacal, too...!

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When opening ANY dwg file with DWG TrueView 2010 or 2011, a dialog box titled "References - Unresolved Reference Files" shows up blank, and halts the program so that it must be closed forcefully. This only happens at one computer, with all users tried. The same files open fine in DWG TrueView on other workstations, as well as in Autocad 2009 and 2011 on other workstations. I have tried uninstalling 2010 and 2011, then reinstalling with no luck. I have also updated .NET framework to 4.0, run virus scan, disabled Kaspersky, rebooted, etc. Everything I throw at it does nothing.
The error is specific to the file and the staion that you use: the referenced content is on a drive not accessible by that PC. Fix that location (make it accessible as defined inside the file) and the problem will go away. It's all about the file/folder pathing and what each of those files and drives are called, they all must match 100%.
So make sure all my drives are mapped correctly and I should be good. Thanks!
I have yet to resolve this issue. All drives are mapped correctly, and this error only surfaces on one machine. Short of reimaging the machine, I feel that I have tried everything. There are the occasional files that can be opened on the machine in question, and they are saved in the same version of Autocad as those that cannot. Our cad files are generated out of our own design software, and the ones that can be opened versus the ones that cannot, are created using the same version of our software, with the same characteristics. I'm at a loss.
Hi, i just encounter this same problem just now. I hope this may help your trouble.
Step 1. Open the file thats need to trouble shoot, until it will open "unresolved reference file". Then close the file.
Step 2. Reopen using Acad short cut or Acad exe.
Step 3. Drawing recovery will open if not Close all drawing windows then click file/ drawing recovery manager.
Step 4. open the file that was registered under the Drawing Recovery Manager/ Backup Files.
Step 5. the drawing file will open and the File References Showing the Reference Name with the status saying "not found or unreferenced"
Step 6. Rigth Click each file then Click "Detach"
Step 7. Save your file. then try to reopen.
I hope this works for you.. gud luck
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Because the people who want to do something about it and are in the position to do something about it are absolutely bonkers. Here's an article in the Post about a mock trial chaired by Rep. Conyers. Here's the bonkers part:
"The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."
Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern for his "candid answer."
At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks."
I'm supposed to trust these people over the President? Ummm. No.
The fact that some kook commented on the memo doesn't have any bearing on it as news. I heard some crazy the other night saying we had dropped the atomic bomb on Tokyo at the bidding of the Jews. That doesn't change anything about the real history.
We have a document that seems to show the presedent was commited to war and willing to mislead the American people to achive this end. That is news. The story of why it took the US press so long to cover it is news. Some group of fringe loonies does not change these facts.
"Some group of fringe loonies does not change these facts"
That group of fringe loonies is the Democratic Party. So no matter what you think the DSM says about the President, it pales in comparison to what we know about the President's opposition.
I'm disappointed by your ad-homineum attacks. Is this a sign that you cannot refute the claims in the memo? If it were so easy to refute its claims, you wouldn't need to attack a small slice of the people calling for an investigation.Perhaps if there had been an investigation as to whether the Administration cherry-picked intelligence to lead us into war, you'd have something solid to fend off these accusations.If only the President hadn't insisted that neither the WMD Commission nor the Senate Intelligence Committee look into how the Administration used the intelligence it was given, you might have documentation to fight administration critics. But President Bush didn't want that, so we need that investigation now.We rightly impeached Bill Clinton for lying about turning the White House into the Playboy Mansion (tm). But those lies and misrepresentations didn't kill anybody.Our war in Iraq has now killed about half the Americans killed on 9/11, injured thousands more Americans than were injured on 9/11; plus tens of thousands dead and injured Iraqis. Plus we have spent more than $200 Billion on a war that had NOTHING to do with al-Qaeda.According to the Downing Street Memo, the highest officials of our closest ally believed:1) That President Bush had decided on war before going to Congress or the American people.2) That the case for war was extremely weak and that therefore the UN had to be used to try and provoke Iraq.3) That the push to invade Iraq would be timed with the November 2002 election cycle.If these are perceptions true, then President Bush lied about his intentions on a number of occasions, including this statement in October 2002:
Later this week, the United States Congress will vote on this matter. I have asked Congress to authorize the use of America's military, if it proves necessary, to enforce U.N. Security Council demands. Approving this resolution does not mean that military action is imminent or unavoidable. The resolution will tell the United Nations, and all nations, that America speaks with one voice and is determined to make the demands of the civilized world mean something. Congress will also be sending a message to the dictator in Iraq: that his only chance -- his only choice is full compliance, and the time remaining for that choice is limited.
If Dearlove and Straw are correct, the President lied about a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars; while not even accomplishing the miminal goal of making Iraq safer than it was in April 2003.For that kind of conduct, some kind of accountability is in order. But first let's have the investigation.Unlike you, I'll be able to live with the results if it turns out the Downing Street Memo was a simple misunderstanding between allies and that President Bush really was wringing his hands in October 2002 and beyond.But to find out if that was the case, we need to put Dearlove and Straw under oath, find out which American officials they talked to and then put those officials under oath.
Its a big fat red herring Daniel. Military action wasn't imminent or unavoidable. You are deliberatly giving everyone else involved in this a pass including Saddam Hussein.
I don't consider it an ad homineum attack. If the Democrats are going to tolerate this kind of talk then the hell with them.
. . . it pales in comparison to what we know about the President's opposition.
And what you "know" about the president's opponents pales in comparison to the undeniable facts about Bush. He is a draft dodger and deserter. He is an unrecovered drunk. He lied about the presence of biological and chemical weapons in Iraq, the bin Laden/Hussein connection, that Iraq was involved in the WTC attack, and that Hussein was looking for fissionables in Niger. He is personally, ethically, legally, and morally responsible for American military misadventurism in Iraq, the death of as many as 100,000 Iraqi innocents, and that the American fatality count is now up to 1,700 and still climbing, while surviving casualties continue to be shit upon by the same Department of Veterans Affairs that has been fucking over Viet Nam vets for over thirty years. He is personally, ethically, legally, and morally responsible for the total cluster-fuck perpetated by the FBI in their failure to even address Al-Qaeda activity within the U.S. He personally, along with his administration, refused to address the issue of international terrorism from the day he took office up until the Towers came down.
I could go on, but I'd only be preaching to the choir, since people like you prefer to live in denial instead of facing up to anything as inconvenient as incontrovertible facts.
I don't consider it an ad homineum attack. If the Democrats are going to tolerate this kind of talk then the hell with them.
From Webster's Online Dictionary:Main Entry: 1ad ho·mi·nemPronunciation: (')ad-'hä-m&-"nem, -n&mFunction: adjectiveEtymology: New Latin, literally, to the person1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect2 : marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions madeQuote from your journal entry:
Because the people who want to do something about it and are in the position to do something about it are absolutely bonkers.
And quote from your response to dbigwood:
That group of fringe loonies is the Democratic Party. So no matter what you think the DSM says about the President, it pales in comparison to what we know about the President's opposition.
Using the Webster definition, or one from some other source, please show me why your statements above are not textbook cases of ad hominem attack?FWIW, Fang's response was pretty pure ad hominem attack as well. I find this style of argument repugnant no matter what part of the ideological spectrum I find it. It never gets us any closer to the truth, but does contribute to the poisioning of dialog.
Military action wasn't imminent or unavoidable.
The statement above appears to contradict what you told me on June 12, 2005 (Scroll down to "Oboy"):
The premise of that statement implies that my side ever thought there would be a peaceful resolution to Iraq. We weren't that naive.
As I've mentioned before, the President's October 2002 statement of:
Approving this resolution does not mean that military action is imminent or unavoidable.
Along with many other comments about how the President saw war was a true last resort, or wasn't inevitable clearly contradicts the reported statements of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove in July 2002.It's indicated they came to their conclusions by talking to American officials. Which ones? What made those officials believe that "It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided?" Only an independent investigation that puts Straw, Dearlove and the people they talked to under oath can establish the truth.We need the truth, because IF what is contained in the DSM is an accurate reflection of reality, America was manipulated into a waging a war that had nothing to do with fighting terrorism that has cost all sides greatly in blood and treasure. It has also given us an occupation which Donald Rumsfeld himself admits has not significantly reduced the level of violence in two solid year of concerted American activity. There should be accountability for this.
Don't talk to me about appealing to intellect until you admit that Saddam could have stopped the invasion by his own actions. You are deliberately ignoring a large chunk of history.
I don't consider my posting an appeal to emotions. The bottom line is you want to put Bush on trial and you want those people to be the jury. I consider that a pretty straightforward summation of your argument and the only reasonable and intellectual response to such an arguement is to call it what it is, silly.
FYI you may think bad publicity is good publicity but if all this does is rehash why we went to war to begin with then that's only going to reinvigorate my side. Here's a good article by Victor Hanson.
Slashgirl was nice enough to write in her journal recently about the marriage of 2 military men. An excellent example of why Canada will never have to worry about word parsers and little headaches like the DSM because they will never have a military that is capable of accomplishing anything other then maybe marching in parades
Hope you're feeling better from last night and thanks for checking out my Alaska's checks and balances article.Fang's ad hominem was an appeal to the emotions. If you go back and read your comments, I don't see how you deny that they fulfill the other definition of ad hominem:"marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made."You can argue that ad hominem attacks are justifiable, but you can't get away with saying you do not make them. When Tomeboy uses ad hominem attacks, he proudly proclaims it instead of trying to say he didn't. While I still don't agree with him, I appreciate his straightforwardness.
Don't talk to me about appealing to intellect until you admit that Saddam could have stopped the invasion by his own actions.
If the charges in the Downing Street Memo and its supporting documents are true, then the decision was already made and the UN was simply a tool to garner extra support for an invasion we were going to carry out anyway.
The bottom line is you want to put Bush on trial and you want those people to be the jury. I consider that a pretty straightforward summation of your argument and the only reasonable and intellectual response to such an arguement is to call it what it is, silly.
At this point, I don't want to put the President on trial. I have called for an investigation of the claims made in the Downing Street Memo, including:
I believe the answers to these questions are important because I believe that Congress and the American people might well have made different decisions if:
As for who should do the investigating, my preference would be a non or quad-party (R's D's Greens & Libertarian) commission. If that could not be arranged, than perhaps joint inquiries by joint House-Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees. Failing that, I'd accept a special prosecuter.Ironically, the President had the chance to already put these allegations behind him if he had but dropped his insistance that the WMD Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee NOT investigate the use of intelligence once it had been submitted by the Intelligence Community.Because the investigations weren't done then and because documents have come to light from the highest circles of our closest allies that suggest that the President lied to Congress and the American people about his intentions and that he MAY have selectively used intelligence, the investigations must be done now. The blood of the dead, the cries of the wounded and the exhaustion of our treasury demand no less from a country that rightly sanctioned our previous President for lying about his conduct.I don't have much to say about the Hanson article since he doesn't address either the Downing Street Memo or the President's intentions. I think it does make a strong case that we ignored and embraced the Saudi financiers of al-Qaeda while wasting blood, resources, time and what little good will we had in attacking Iraq. Now there's something that isn't news.
"The President had been straightforward in asking for an invasion instead of pretending to give diplomacy and inspections a chance.
Congressional Democrats had known in advance that their vote was going to initiate an invasion.
Congress and the American public had known about the level of doubt contained in our Iraq intelligence regarding WMDs and links to al-Qaeda.
Known prior to the vote that an invasion would be done without UN authorization."
1. Whenever he said that war was a last option he made it clear that it was in fact an option. You can't pretend to give diplomacy a chance when you put the entire decision in the hands of one person, Saddam Hussein.
2. They voted to give the President the right to go to war. If they voted that way with any other intention other then giving the President the right to go to war then they are the ones who lied to the American people and they are the ones who should be investigated.
3. It wasn't about Al Quaeida or *active* WMDs. It was about a pre-emption philosophy created from the devastation of 9/11. A philosophy that applies to every nation in the world regardless of direct physical connections to 9/11.
4. Come on Daniel. One of the reasons Kerry lost is because he could not come out and say flatly that he would invade Iraq without UN approveful. The majority of Americans will never submit to a 'global test'. Its not happening. The entire premise of such an idea (and yes I am going to say this, it does apply here) is in fact unpatriotic and unAmerican. The interests of the United States trump the interest of the United Nations.
The key questions raised by the Downing Street Memo.For a supporter of an Administration who lives by the motto "The innocent have nothing to hide", you seem nervous about the Administration's claims of indecision being investigated. If the investigative board is selected for its impartiality and Jack Straw and Sir Richard Dearlove really were mistaken in their recorded claims that:
Then the President will come out vindicated. It would be a big hit to the antiwar party. If the President didn't mislead Congress and the American people about his intentions, and didn't cherry pick his intelligence, then neither he nor you have anything to fear.One claim from your post that does bear responding to is:
3. It wasn't about Al Quaeida or *active* WMDs.
I'm afraid that the President disagreed with you back in October 2002:
Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America.
Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints.
The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen" -- his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.
As some intelligence analysts believed at the time, as did Hans Blix and the IAEA, none of the above claims were true and there was doubt about all of these claims within the administration at the time, as discovered by both the WMD Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee.You can't run away from the historical record and say that the Iraq War wasn't originally and primarily justified by weapons of mass destruction that could be given to al Qaeda or other terror groups.According to the Downing Street Memo these justifications based on weak evidence were all part of a plan of premediated invasion:
The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force.
Congress and the American people deserve to know whether this is true. If it's not, the President should welcome the vindication from an independent commission, that he refused to allow from either the Senate Intelligence Committee or the WMD Commission. He could have done so with either by allowing them to investigate how the intelligence on Iraq was used once it got to the policymakers.
As opposed to the American military which will never be capable of accomplishing anything beyond baby killing in defenseless countries and still losing the war to guerilla fighters anyway?
1,700 down -- 56,300 to go.
Speaking of which, when you are going to sign up to take your turn at baby killing, Greg? Don't tell me that you are an unAmerican, unpatriotic, bleeding heart liberal type who won't sign up? Or are you simply waiting for the next Rethuglican administration to reinstate the draft?
Is it, do you suppose, because of slackers such as yourself that the almighty American military isn't meeting its recruitment quotas?
I'm not going to put the President on trial based on the *opinions* of a *politician* from the other side of the *ocean*. The memo is nothing more then impressions, he wasn't quoting anyone but giving his own view on where things stood.
You can't run away from the historical record and say that the Iraq War wasn't originally and primarily justified by weapons of mass destruction that could be given to al Qaeda or other terror groups.
Funny how you support Hans Blix when he speaks out against the President but not when he spoke out against Saddam. Its also funny how you have to pull together dribs and drabs of quotes and memos to make your case while completely ignoring 12 *years* of resolutions, flyovers, and bombings. Who's really cherry picking here?
You have no interest in taking responsibility for the world we now live in, and there's nothing I can do to help you with that.
we tried to move from the specific to the general.Do you believe that invesigations (AS DISTINCT FROM impeachment hearings) of a sitting President are ever justified?If so, please provide examples of justifiable investigations and why they were justified. If not, please explain why Presidents should never face investigations from Congress or independent prosecutors.
Both Nixon and Clinton were investigated for legitimate reasons. I don't know if Iran-Contra counts as a Presidential investigation but I agree with it, though I side with Reagan.
The problem is that all those cases involved actual illegal activity. What your trying to pin on Bush is nothing more then that he didn't follow your philosophy on how things should have taken place.
"Both Nixon and Clinton were investigated for legitimate reasons. I don't know if Iran-Contra counts as a Presidential investigation but I agree with it.."
In lockstep agreement with you there.
The problem is that all those cases involved actual illegal activity. What your trying to pin on Bush is nothing more then that he didn't follow your philosophy on how things should have taken place.
I agree with you that the cases we agree on all involved illegal activity and that suspected illegal activity should be the standard for investigating a sitting president. Pure policy differences SHOULD NOT be a basis for a formal investigation.So, I think our spirited disagreement on President Bush on this issue hinges on two factors:
March 18, 2003Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that:(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.Sincerely,GEORGE W. BUSH
The reasons I believe these claims COULD be false are:a) The President had enough information on hand to know Iraq had no hand in 9/11, and thus provision two is false. This perception is repeated several times in the DSM documents.b) IF the President had his mind up to invade Iraq prior to July 2002, he was not planning to make a good faith effort to evaluate diplomacy mandated after October 2002.c) IF going to the UN was a deliberate choice made prior July 2002 to make war more palatable to the US and UK publics, then the President's "certification" that diplomacy would not work was simply proforma and contrary to the intent of Public Law 107-243. This too, is strongly implied by several of the DSM documents.IF President Bush provided knowningly false information on his certification under Public Law 107-243, then I believe that constitutes a violation of Federal Law that has led to unacceptable costs to the United States. For these reasons, there should be an independent or Congressional investigation (NOT "a trial). Depending on the investigation results, we can see what further action is needed.As far as I'm concerned, the answer to question 2 is unknown at present. That is why I am NOT advocating impeachment hearings at this time, but wishing for an independent commission that would start be deposing Straw and Dearlove on what led them to their conclusions.As far as I remember, what Clinton was investigated for wasn't adultery, but providing false testimony. I believe that providing a knowingly false war certification is similar.
Well, not EVERY nation in the world. I can think of one nation our current administration exempts.
The statement says "including" it does not say "exclusive to". And you keep talking about stuff like "making it more palatable". Either you believe something is right or you don't. If getting the UN involved somehow makes it more right for you then thats just sad.
Your letter is from after the Iraq Resolution was passed. Here is the Resolution. There is more then enough there to hang Saddam, and I'll say again: if there are Senators and Representatives who voted for it and now oppose Bush's actions, then they need to justify why their vote wasn't in good faith. Everything was laid on the table. Everyone knew the stakes. There's a lot more there then just WMDs and Al Queada.
Did you ever read The Lord of the Rings? If so do you remember the Ents? The Tree Herders? They lived so long, they had such long memories and were so slow moving that conversations between them took weeks. Introductions alone took days. You are trying to parse every document, every word, and in effect, becoming an Ent. Drawing out minute bits into long debate all in an effort to avoid action.
While I knew that my answer would be unacceptable to you, I still thank for you for helping to clarify my thinking and figure out why IF the claims in the DSM are true, the Presidents actions weren't simply immoral (i.e. lying), but illegal. Having said that, the DSM and its supporting materials are NOT proof in and of themselves, but offer a starting point for an investigation.


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So my last few journal entries have been about me being depressed and what not. I'd love to say it's getting better, and some days i feel like it is...but as of right now, I just feel lost in life...and alone in life. I'm in the middle of a big change as I'll be re-entering school in the fall, and it's making me look at myself and how i want to be viewed and how I want to act, which is to be myself. This means telling people I'm gay. However...it is so hard to even fathom me telling my friends let alone my family. In terms of where to say it, how to say it, how to start saying it.
So i haven't posted anything in a while and a lot has changed for me. But i'm not sure, if i'd say its changed for the better.
I had started University in September, and although i had high hopes of making a lot of great friends, coming out and letting people know i may be bi or even gay, nothing happened.
I feel as if every girl I ever am attracted to is never going to want to date me because I am transgender. My first girlfriend broke up with me because I came out to her as transgender. My second girlfriend did the same thing. The one girl I was dating but not in a relationship with who happens to be my best friend that I'm head over heels for also told me she couldn't date me because of my gender identity. I feel like nobody will ever want to date me because of my gender identity. I feel so alone...like I will never find love.
So this year I went away to college, and I met a girl, who was a few years older than me, and we quickly became best friends. Before I met her I never really had any bisexual feelings, neither did she. One thing lead to another and after months of being friends we hooked up and started dating. We didn't tell anyone, I told one of my sisters, and she told one of her friends, but did not want anyone to know because her parents would freak.
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I found this through SO. Just add those via the bash command line before running
pip install MySQL-python
and everything should work out.
Next up I had to run
brew install libevent
to be able to get the C files installed Gevent needs. Next up I ran
pip install gevent
and everything was good to go.


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adjective \ˈkrä-chə-tē\: often annoyed and angry
Full Definition of CROTCHETY
: given to crotchets : subject to whims, crankiness, or ill temper <a crotchety old man>
: full of or arising from crotchets <a crotchety style>
— crotch·et·i·ness \-tē-nəs\ noun
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- None of the students dared to talk back to the crotchety old teacher.
- <I get crotchety after a long day at work.>
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What's creepier than someone peeping through your windows? Someone in camouflage peeping through your windows with a camera. Britney Spears is lucky she wasn't home in April when Miranda Tozier-Robbins, a former "American Idol" hopeful who sang Britney's "Everytime" at her audition, was caught doing just that. And Britney's even luckier that a Los Angeles judge has ordered Miranda to stay away from Brit, her family, and her giant mansion. [MSNBC]
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Wrath news for Discipline and tanks
Redoubtable Blizzard poster Koraa comes to the rescue with words of reassurance: if rage/mana generation continues to be an issue with these spells (since they absorb damage and thus either prevent the tank from gaining rage via damage or mana via healing that damage) then there may well be changes to allow them to be less of a problem. We're warned that this would be a last resort fix, however.
I'd personally love it if a priest could shield me as I run in on a boss without being worried that I won't get enough initial rage to start generating threat. Perhaps (as some posters argue) the bosses will be hitting so fast that rage won't be an issue. We'll see what happens, of course, but the very idea of Power Word: Shield and its related talents not cheating me of my initial threat generation makes me giddy.
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One reader's amazing success with hot yoga—and how it gave her a new lease on life
At 59, Johnni Southerland was overweight and often tired. Now she's slim, energetic, and happier than ever. Here's her remarkable store, in her own word:
Even though I ate whatever I wanted growing up and I've never been athletic—I'd take a nap over a walk any day—I was always thin. I didn't even have to worry about baby weight. The most I weighed during both of my pregnancies in my mid-20s was 127 pounds. Still, that felt like a lot because I'm only 5-foot-1, and I was used to weighing around 104. But as soon as I started breast-feeding, I could eat like a pig and the pounds would melt off.
That all changed when I hit my 40s. My metabolism slowed down and the scale started to climb.
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I'd also been a smoker for years and tried to stop a few times, which started me on a yo-yo; I'd go up a few pounds each time I quit and back down when I started smoking again. I did step aerobics for about a year to get back in shape, but I had to stop when I hurt my left knee.
Still, my weight didn't really take off until I hit my 50s. Around that time I met my boyfriend, John. Cooking is the way to a man's heart—at least it was in my generation—and I wanted to impress him and show him that I knew my way around the kitchen. He loves your basic meat-and-potato foods, so I'd whip up dishes like meat loaf or pot roast with buttery mashed potatoes. While John could use the extra pounds he put on his tall frame, I could have done without them.
I rarely weighed myself, but my clothes went from being a little tight to very tight when I finally quit smoking for good at 56. I traded one bad habit for a new one: snacking! Peanuts became my best friend. I was also chewing tons of Nicorette gum—a pack a day—so even though I was helping my lungs, my nicotine addiction was as strong as ever.
I knew I was gaining weight, but I swear, I think I had some sort of reverse anorexia: I felt thin even though I was fat!
Part of the problem was that I rarely saw myself naked. I have only one mirror in my bathroom, and it's on the medicine cabinet, so you see yourself only from the shoulders up when getting in and out of the shower. I also made the mistake of investing in a few pairs of very pretty elastic-waisted pants. You could weigh 500 pounds in them and never even know it!
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In the summer of 2011, I weighed 162 at my annual checkup. To make matters worse, my blood pressure was still borderline high; it had been for years. While my doctor wasn't too concerned—she told me it would probably go down if I lost weight—my mother had high blood pressure and died of a heart attack, so I decided to be proactive and started taking a low dose of blood pressure medication. I knew I really had to do something about my weight, but you know how it is—summer vacations and then the holiday season made it easy for me to make excuses. Plus, I'd developed plantar fasciitis in my right heel; combine that with my achy left knee and exercise wasn't at the top of my list. In January, I was shocked to find that I weighed 182, the heaviest I'd ever been.
Changes ahead
After that, I felt like my life was in a rut. I was tired a lot—I generally didn't make it through the day without a nap—and I felt like I needed something new in my life. My 60th birthday was coming up in August, and I wanted to make some changes before I hit that milestone. That January I decided it would be my year for transformation, and I made a goal to hit 140 pounds by my birthday. First I decided to get off the Nicorette—it was an expensive habit—so I swapped it for sugarless gum. I also quit drinking diet soda and replaced it with unsweetened iced herbal tea or seltzer water. It was a start, but I needed to do a lot more to get in shape. (Should YOU give up diet soda? Check out the side effects of drinking the fizzy stuff.)
About a week later, Bonnie, my friend at work—at that time I was a speech therapist for preschoolers—asked me if I wanted to take a hot yoga class with her. She'd started doing yoga to get in shape for a skiing trip and looked great—her skin was glowing, she'd lost weight, and she seemed to carry herself differently. I'd always thought it would be cool to be one of those people who get old and do yoga, so I decided to give it a try, even though I wasn't sure I'd be able to do it with my achy heel and knee. I've also always been sensitive to heat. I even had heatstroke at a baseball game a few summers ago, so knowing that it would be between 95° and 105°F in the room was a little scary.
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The card says When Played: Spend 1 influence to destroy 1 opposing unit. OK, I am attacking (or being attacked) by an Enemy event card. If I play this card, and spend my influence, can I immediately destroy it? This is how I was playing it in the solo game, but this seems extremely over-powered. Am I interpreting this correctly?
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Posted 05 August 2011 - 03:02 PM
Posted 05 August 2011 - 08:16 PM
Actually I was wondering the same thing. This also pertains to the Elves influence and the archer "untap" strongholds/ cities for influence. When can the elves spend influence and tap more strongholds to trigger abilities during combat? Is it outside the spend influence step? Can you "hold" influence for later in the combat step after you exhaust for influence earlier in the turn. When we were playing the game it seems the elves can snag up all the high cost neutral cards real quick with archers and a few strongholds.
Posted 05 August 2011 - 11:14 PM
I think you will find that 'Enemy' event cards are not counted as units and so the effect wont work.
As soon as the Elf Archers are played in combat, the owner can refresh one of its exhausted strongholds or cities. This, and other influence cards, can be used during that combat to trigger any effects that require influence. They cannot be used to gain cards during the combat, but must wait until the combat is over and you can make other actions. Cheers!
Posted 06 August 2011 - 09:46 AM
Yep - the rules clearly state that an "Enemy" is not a "Unit" and vice versa.
Posted 09 August 2011 - 12:50 AM
Think of Enemy cards as another player. You can't use the destroy effects on them.