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The 15-8 vote in the Senate Finance Committee against a giant government run health insurance company, euphemistically titled the public option by those who would give the public no option on whether they would fund it or not, is by no means the death of this bad idea. Like a spoiled fraternity brother, liberal Democrats don't take "no" for an answer. No means yes. Whether the salesman for this bad idea is Harry Truman, Ted Kennedy, or Hillary Clinton, liberals refuse to abandon it after the public rejects it. It is an article of faith impervious to the political winds. Like Jason or Freddy, it's only dead for now.
Can a leftist write a history of the conservative movement? Historian Ron Radosh answers yes in a thought-provoking post at his PajamasMedia-affiliated site.
The springboard of Radosh's piece is Kim Phillips-Fein's "Right On" article in a recent number of The Nation. Therein, Phillips-Fein outlines the liberal scribe's penchant for writing the premature obituary for conservatism, admits that liberal scholars have "sought to understand the conservative movement partly to forge the tools to undermine it," and explains that such histories rarely view conservatives on their own terms. Instead, theories about why conservatives have made gains generally center around how evil they are (racism, e.g., "the Southern Strategy") or how ignorant the masses are of their own interests (false consciousness). Such convenient explanations never laid the onus for liberalism's decline on any inherent weakness of liberalism.
It is perhaps this honest assessment of liberal historiography that prompts Radosh to write, "At a moment when most liberal/left commentary is purely a set of venomous screeds, this essay by Prof. Phllips-Fein stands alone." This rings true. As for Dr. Radosh's affirmative answer to the question of whether liberals can write a fair history of conservatism, his answer may be affirmed but Phillips-Fein's article is not the affirmation of it. The Nation article reads less as a history of conservatism than it does a critical history of leftist histories of conservatism. There is Richard Hofstadter, but no Russell Kirk; Thomas Frank, but no F.A. Hayek; and Alan Brinkley, but no William F. Buckley. That ideological narcissism, in a nutshell, explains why leftists have done such a poor job understanding their political adversaries.
It is tough to understand that which doesn't interest.
Roman Polanksi says justice has been served. But the famed director never served his sentence for the rape of a thirteen-year-old girl, whom he had fed qualudes and champagne to before he had sex with her. Defendants don't get to determine whether justice has been served or not. If they did, most would probably skip out on their sentences like Mr. Polanksi. The filmmaker's defenders continue to invoke "32 years," as if the key number in the case revolved around the amount of time Polanski has evaded justice. The only relevant number here is "13."
It says something about our culture that dropping an "F" bomb on national television is now seen as a good career move rather than career suicide. Saturday Night Live newcomer Jenny Slate spoke the obscenity on the program's season premiere. Call me cynical but the expletive seems by design--whether by Slate's design or Lorne Michaels' design, I don't know. I do know that everybody is talking about Saturday Night Live, something that has rarely happened in the last five years. As the word's derivation instructs, obscenities belong off scene. Inserting them in the scene, at least on broadcast network television, seems an admission that what is normally on screen isn't quite catching the viewer's attention.
"For the first time in 47 years, Massachusetts is not represented by a senator named Kennedy," Jim Antle writes at the American Spectator. "But the trend of being represented by Kennedys and Kennedy consiglieres is still going more than a half-century strong." This is because Ted Kennedy's replacement, like John F. Kennedy's replacement, was hand-picked by the Kennedy family. Then, President-elect Jack Kennedy threatened to resign from the senate after the incoming Republican governor was sworn in unless the outgoing Democratic governor selected Kennedy's college roommate as senator. Now, Paul Kirk, Ted Kennedy's longtime aide who serves as chairman of the board of the John F. Kennedy Library and, until last week, served on the board of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, fills the seat once held by Jack Kennedy, his Harvard buddy Ben Smith, and then Kennedy's brother Ted. For fifty-seven years, Kennedys, or honorary Kennedys, have held this senate seat--that three members of the Lodge family have also held--to the exclusion of everyone else. There is something about dynastic politics that smells foul to anyone truly American.
Jeff Jacoby highlights the parental paradox of bicycle helmets and constant monitoring, on the one hand, and allowing television to baby sit, on the other. The average American household watches more than eight hours of television a day, which is about double the nearest competitor (It's a competition to the bottom.). "TV isn't called the idiot box for nothing," Jacoby writes in the Boston Globe. "Even at its best it replaces engaged and active thought with passive and sedentary spectating, while at its worst it destroys children's innocence, inuring them to violence, mockery, and crude sexualization. Television is by definition a visual medium; it appeals not to the brain but to the eye."
In contrast to picking up a book, which activates the mind, turning on the television switches off the imagination. Making it your child's minder is a form of child abuse, more mild than hiring Roman Polanski as a sitter; more severe than a spanking. After several years without one, I resent its presence (except on Sunday afternoons, or when The First 48 is on, or, come to think of it, when they play the UFC, Tool Acadamy, or Survivorman) in my living room.
As I noted in my Pixelated Technicolor Zombie post, "Television is like a Dawn of the Dead zombie: wherever you go, there's no escape. Try to collect your ideas in an airport, and CNN Headline News blaring in the foreground will shout down your thoughts. Go to fill up an empty gas tank, and the tube atop the pump will fill your head with images of various consumables found inside the service station. At the check-out line, in that restaurant, on the train--television, television, televison. If you don't watch it, people will start to watch you (as if you belonged in a zoo)."
Incestophobes are having a field day with Mackenzie Phillips's brave decision to come out of the closet as an incestual. In her new book, High on Arrival, the former "One Day at a Time" star details a ten-year consensual sexual relationship with her father, Papa John Phillips, the leader of the sixties vocal group The Mamas and the Papas. "I have to say that I loved my father, and I still do," Phillips told a stunned Oprah Winfrey. "Someone needs to put a face on not only nonconsensual incest, but consensual incest, and I know that I can't be the only one who's lived through this."
Michelle Phillips, Papa John's second wife and a member of the Mamas and the Papas, maintains, "The whole story is disgusting." "Everything about this is gross," contends Arizona Republic columnist E.J. Montini. "If the story that Mackenzie Phillips tells is true--that her father first abused her and then she became a willing participant in incest is true--that's gross.... The fact that a story like this fascinates us (and, come on, it does) is gross." Other web commentators advertised their intolerance through such primitive expressions as "ewwww," "yuck," and "sick."
Hate is not a family value. Who is anybody to judge Mackenzie Phillips and Papa John? They were consenting adults. Celebrate diversity. Love makes a family, yet the family that makes love is the family that is stigmatized, persecuted, and forced into the closet. Stop pushing your morality into other people's bedrooms.
Incestuals are born that way. Given all of society's hang-ups and hatreds, who would choose this lifestyle? It's genetic, a fact buttressed by the reality that so many incestuals are related. From Lot to Cleopatra to Caligula to Papa John, inbreeding runs in the family. Incestuality is nature, not nurture. That's science.
But too many reject science for the outmoded prejudices of the past. The American Psychological Association treats incest as if it were a mental illness. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes incest grounds for discharge, forcing incestuals in the armed forces to deny their identity and undermining general readiness by kicking out qualified soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. The laws of every state ban incestuous marriages, imposing humiliating blood tests and strict licensing requirements upon connubial kinfolk. The criminal justice system jails incestuals and breaks up their relationships. It's no wonder that Papa John dreamed of emigrating from the supposed "land of the free" to the land of Fiji. "We could just run away to a country where no one would look down on us," Papa John suggested to his daughter-lover. "There are countries where this is an accepted practice. Maybe Fiji."
Maybe they would have been accepted in Fiji, but never in puritanical America. It's 2009, and no elected official dares come out as an incestual for fear of losing office. In a move reminiscent of its early refusal to play black recording artists, MTV stubbornly blocks "I Kissed My Dad and I Liked It" from its airwaves and won't cast incestuals on any of its reality shows. Schools resist Incest-Outcest Alliance groups and balk at assigning such inclusive texts as Heather Has a Daddy-Husband and My Sister Is My Aunt.
This occurs despite the fact that incestuals endure lifetimes of hardships--drug addiction, suicide, depression, failed relationships--because of society's rejection of them. They are hated for loving. Between Papa John and Mackenzie Phillips, there is nearly a century of drug abuse to demonstrate the destructive power of the incest taboo.
The modest proposal of the mother-father-sister-brother-loving community is to make the incest taboo taboo. Mackenzie Phillips's decision to come out of the closet will certainly induce others to do the same. The Oedipal love that dare not speak its name will shut up no longer.
And with awareness will come acceptance. Supportive bumperstickers, marriage equality, an end to outbreeder sex-police targeting inbreeders, campus "safe spaces," incest pride marches, and corporate sensitivity training will be the signs that the campaign from out of the closets and into the streets has made headway. When all this is accomplished, our world will be transformed from one in which the incestophobes who now hatefully condemn incest without fear of repercussion will be reduced through social pressure to criticism of the most oblique and satirical sort.
Society is sick.
The FBI arrested a 19-year-old Jordanian man yesterday after he placed a car full of dummy explosives that he mistakenly believed would blow up the sixty-story Fountain Place in Dallas. In Illinois, a 29-year-old convert to Islam (courtesy of the prison system!) was arrested after activating a cell phone that he thought would trigger a van full of explosives to destroy a federal building in Springfield. The two arrests follow the appearance in a Denver court by Najibullah Zazi, allegedly an al Qaeda operative, for lying about a bomb plot. In addition to purchasing large quantities of bomb-making materials, Zazi is alleged to have received al Qaeda training, have bombmaking instructions on his computer, and have cooked up explosive material in a Colorado hotel. One is reminded that at the same point into George W. Bush's term terrorists struck America. Could they be similarly testing President Obama? The government doesn't seem as keen on issuing its color-coded warning as it did in the aftermath of 9/11, but if they did this activity would seem the stuff of orange alerts.
They didn't have YouTube in 1930s Germany, but if they did I would imagine that a Hitler Youth meeting might look something like this.
Do we live in bizarro world? ACORN, after getting caught suggesting various illegalities to two twentysomething undercover journalists, is suing the courageous muckrakers. Where is the ACLU to defend the First Amendment rights of the documentarians?
The Democrats rejected an amendment allowing the American people the ability to read the health-care reform legislation prior to Congress voting on it. Of the amendment calling for a cost-estimate and 72-hours to read the text before a vote, Senator John Kerry opined: "This is fundamentally a delay tactic."
I hate getting a song stuck in my head. This is especially true when the song is "I Saw Her Again Last Night" and the reason it's stuck there is because I just heard the news that Papa John Phillips raped his drugged-out daughter Mackenzie, who responded by partaking in a consensual relationship with him. At least that is the One Day at a Time star's twisted story. As much as one might want to believe that Mackenzie's drug abuse discredits her story, one is reminded how much Papa John's drug abuse credits it. If ever a man's demeanor vindicated Nancy Reagan's Just Say No admonition, Papa John's did. When he was sober, he was still stoned. The daughter of the Mamas and the Papas leader remembered, "One night dad said, 'We could just run away to a country where no one would look down on us. There are countries where this is an accepted practice. Maybe Fiji.'" Maybe not.
Scott Harshbarger made a name for himself prosecuting an innocent family for child molestation in the 1980s. It happened a few towns from where I grew up, and I am sad to say that, because of Harshbarger's propaganda campaign, the main defendant's name--"Tookie"--became synonymous with "molester" among my preteen crew. The innocents accused went to prison; Harshbarger went from Middlesex County D.A. to Massachusetts A.G. The hysteria Harshbarger drummed up for his latter day witichhunt would have made Cotton Mather proud. Now, ACORN has hired the man who put innocent people in jail to exonerate people who belong there. An "independent inquiry" my foot!
A choked-up Nancy Pelosi suggested that Joe Wilson's interruption of the president is the type of rhetoric that may lead to violence because she saw such rhetoric lead to violence in San Francisco in the 1970s. But it wasn't conservative rhetoric fueling the violence of Jim Jones, the Black Panthers, Sara Jane Moore, and the multitude of political thugs who unleashed chaos upon the Bay Area in the 1970s. Read my piece @ the American Spectator to get the history that Nancy Pelosi leaves out.
U2 finished two shows at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts last night. I caught Sunday night's performance. It was my fifth, and most underwhelming, U2 concert. Hearing The Unforgettable Fire, Walk On, and Ultraviolet was worth the price of admission, but I could have done without the predictable "greatest hits" set list interspliced with new songs that will be forgotten as soon as this tour concludes.
That's the price of thirty years of fame: everyone knows your songs, has favorites, and is letdown when you don't play them. So bands feel compelled to play the hits. It's safe. But there is a downside to this. When you play the songs that a focus group identifies as the must-hear U2 songs, the setlist becomes predictable and stale. I read the other day that U2's three-concert streak of not playing "Pride" was its longest since the song's release in 1985. Unlike, say, Bruce Springsteen, who can offer a different concert every night, U2 performs the same songs night after night with a change here and there. It's telling that, up until Monday night, the opening four numbers have been the same throughout the tour. Like so much of what sucks in our society, there is little to differentiate Chicago from Foxboro, and Foxboro from East Rutherford. It's a cookie-cutter concert, one size fits all cities.
Though not a hater of supersized stadium shows, this particular stadium show fit into the stereotype of lacking intimacy--with a twist. Whereas this complaint typically centers around the lack of intimacy between artist and audience, here it concerns the lack of intimacy between the players themselves. The in-the-round stage (get it: the U2 360 Tour), which featured roving catwalks to an outer ring, penetrates so deep into the audience that the players at times seemed as far away as Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra. They needn't be artificially crammed as though the venue were a garage. But it strikes the audience as unnatural if the bass player is on the twenty-five-yard left hash mark and the singer is by the right endzone pylon.
I went to a concert rather than church on Sunday, but I still got preached to. Bishop Desmond Tutu presided over the ceremonies, sermonizing about AIDS drugs and foreign aid. A procession of volunteers wearing Aung San Suu Kyi's masks invaded the stage to highlight her imprisonment in Burma. Bono lectured about an injustice that, even had the sound system reached the upperdeck with clarity, still would have sounded incoherent. To what end? Is a drunken football stadium going to depart from the pews and change the world or will they just find the posturing mildly annoying?
The stage set, a massive claw grasping the enormous stage below, doesn't make any sense. Bono calls it a spaceship, but what does a spaceship have to do with U2 music? They're not spacey like Pink Floyd and they don't actually sing about alien abductions like The Pixies. The two other tours in which I caught U2 concerts featured sets that thematically meshed with the music. The multitude of televisions flashing subliminal messages during the Zoo TV Tour and the faux-McDonalds arch that greeted concert goers to the PopMart Tour jibed with the overall concepts of mass communications and commercialism, respectively. But what's with the claw? It is utilitarian in that it holds up speakers and a wraparound videoscreen, but it doesn't seem to have an artistic purpose.
And that lack of an artistic purpose is my overarching complaint with U2's 360 Tour. Playing the same, focus-group friendly songs night after night is more befitting of muzak than a rock band.
Eighty years ago, Will Durant started writing The Story of Civilization. About 65 years later, I started reading it. This seemed right. If a man could devote 45 years of his life to writing the history of the world, I could devote two years of my life to reading it. More than a decade after finishing the eleven-volume Story of Civilization, I have finally gotten around to writing about it. The October 5, 2009 issue of National Review, available now to those with a digital subscription, features my lengthy article on Will and Ariel Durant, the apostate historians. Read it here @ National Review if you have a digital subscription. Get with the program, or just buy it at your local newstand, if you aren't digitally subscribed.
Joe Wilson lacked civility when he shouted, "You lie!" But was Wilson right? Will ObamaCare cover illegal aliens? It depends on your definition of "illegal." "Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don't simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken," Obama said Wednesday explained to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. "That's why I strongly support making sure folks who are here legally have access to affordable, quality health insurance under this plan, just like everybody else." He went on to say, "If anything, this debate underscores the necessity of passing comprehensive immigration reform and resolving the issue of 12 million undocumented people living and working in this country once and for all." Leave aside the fact that illegal aliens already benefit from Medicaid and the fact that Democrats have killed various amendments explicitly denying coverage to illegal aliens. The president's nod-and-wink linkage of amnesty with socialized medicine belies his earlier promise to keep illegals out of his health care plan.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to defund ACORN. Despite the 345 to 75 tally, Massachusetts's delegation voted 8 to 1 (with Barney Frank, a vocal antagonist of those seeking to defund ACORN, not voting) against the defunding legislation. After seeing videos of numerous ACORN employees seeming to display a willingness to aid and abet a child prostitution scheme, the debate should be about whether the government should shut down ACORN, not about whether it should fund it. Not to fret, Massachusetts Democrats. There will be no repercussions for votes in defense of subsidizing illegality--at least for the Massachusetts Democrats. Elsewhere, Democrats, as always, will pay a price for the irresponsibility of representatives safely ensconsed in districts that far from represent America.
How do you know a liberal has lost an argument? He starts crying "racism," reports an old joke. It's too bad Jimmy Carter couldn't use such a word as kryptonite to his critics during his four years of failure. The Man from Plains maintains that Rep. Joe Wilson's rebuke of the president for lying to Congress was "based on racism." He explained to a town-hall meeting in Atlanta, "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." But Jimmy Carter isn't one to talk. A transitional figure who linked Old South with New South, Carter first won election as governor of Georgia in part by relying on racism of the overt rather than subtle variety. Reporter David Freddoso notes that Carter's campaign distributed a picture of his opponent celebrating with two African Americans and scoffed that his opponent had honored Martin Luther King. Carter then bragged, "I can win this election without a single black vote."
Rocky Balboa punched frozen meat. Juan Manuel Marquez drinks his own urine. In preparation for his superfight against Floyd Mayweather this Saturday night, Marquez's training routine has included gulping down his pee. Not since Aaron Pryor drank from Panama Lewis's black bottle has a fighter's liquid intake sparked such curiosity.
When George W. Bush addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2008, I criticized the conservatives gathered for deluding themselves into believing that George W. Bush was one of them. George W. Bush, we now definitively discover, shared my view. "What is this movement you keep talking about in the speech?" he asked speechwriter Matt Latimer, who had been tasked with devising the president's CPAC address. "[T]ake out all this movement stuff. There is no movement." Indeed, there wasn't. The "conservative movement" Bush sought to delete from his speech had in fact been deleted from existence shortly after he had taken the oath of office. There was something masochistic in the CPAC audience chanting "Four more years!" at a president who had trampled over their favored polices. Big government at home and abroad, amnesty for foreigners breaking into the country, the "veto" power missing in action for more than five years, bailouts for Wall Street, Detroit, and Baghdad, and a new department to add to the federal bureaucracy are the painful legacies of the Bush years. "Abuse me more!" was how I interpreted that mindless mantra. George W. Bush seemed to have interpreted that way too. "Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say," the president remarked to his speechwriter, "but I redefined the Republican Party."
I thought James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles's undercover videos exposing the willingness of ACORN employees to aid and abet a scheme to smuggle underage girls into the country for prostitution were outrageous. But they have been upstaged in the outrage department by their latest expose on ACORN's San Bernadino office, where an employee of the disgraced organization talks about killing her husband and threatening others who would unveil her discussions with the investigative journalists posing as pimp and prostitute. On its surface, their work is an expose of ACORN; probe more deeply, and one realizes it is an expose of the mainstream media. Why on earth does it take a 25-year old and a 20-year old to do the work that 60 Minutes and the New York Times should be doing? The federal government gave ACORN more than $25 million last year and the president of the United States once served as their counsel in a lawsuit and headed up the organization's Project Vote. Beam me up, Scotty!
Tune in to Boston's Talk Evolution 96.9 WTKK tonight to listen to me as I fill-in for Michele McPhee. If for some strange reason you live outside of the Hub of the Universe, click the "listen live" button on WTKK's website to listen live from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight. What should I be talking about on the air?
"Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?" Pink Floyd asked on side three of The Wall. "Vera! Vera! What has become of you?" The lyric intended to conjure up a long, gone figure from the distant past of World War II. But what's become of Vera Lynn is that, at 92 years young, she is the oldest recording artist to score a number one album in the United Kingdom. Thirty years after Roger Waters wondered if anybody remembered Vera Lynn, his fellow Brits have issued a delayed response in the affirmative.
The California state assembly has passed legislation establishing a "Harvey Milk Day." Milk, an obscure city supervisor who served less than a year in elective office, sullied his reputation by unwittingly aiding and abetting Jim Jones in his mass murders. But his supporters, fueled by the recent biopic featuring Sean Penn in the leading role, whitewash all that to transform Milk into a Martin Luther King for homosexuals. The bill awaits Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto or signature. My work has made its way into the debate, with many of the proposed holiday's detractors citing my "Drinking Harvey Milk's Kool-Aid" article. The group Save California, Christian conservatives leading the fight against a state holiday honoring Milk, conducted an interview with me on the idea of a Harvey Milk Day that, a month-and-a-half after it originally aired, is listed on its site as its #1 downloaded podcast. Hear here. I don't write with the expectation that my articles will influence public policy. But it's gratifying when they do.
"All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years, since my first introduction to the, shall we say, ethics involved with independence and the embracement of your community has proven to be very true," Kurt Cobain's suicide note reads. "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guity beyond words about these things." The Nirvana frontman hoped to escape in death the commercialism that he abhorred at the end of his life. The vulgar appropriation of Cobain's image in the Guitar Hero 5 videogame gives credence to the argument that suicide doesn't solve your problems. There's something very wrong about the animated Cobain singing Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name." Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, initially seemed to blame Cobain's former bandmates, singling out Dave Grohl by saying he would burn in hell if such a place existed, for the crass exploitation of her husband's image. But they had nothing to do with it. "Courtney supplied us with photos and videos and knew exactly what she wanted Kurt to look like," Activision's Tim Riley told Rolling Stone. "She picked the wardrobe and hair style, which turned out to be the 'Teen Spirit' look, then we went back and forth over changes--some subtle, some not so subtle... She was actually great to work with. She got back with comments pretty quickly." File under: Don't marry a groupie.
Are you ready for some football? After seven month of suffering, football fans can once again enjoy America's present pastime tonight as the Tennessee Titans travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Super Bowl champion Steelers tonight. With this in mind, I welcome the readers to make their Super Bowl predictions in the comments section below. My prediction/wish is...
New England Patriots over Philadelphia Eagles
It's impolite to interrupt. But lying, though hardly recognized as such in our passive-agressive society, is a far worse transgression. The U.S. Congress resembled a raucous British House of Commons last night, as South Carolinian Joe Wilson responded to Obama's health-care assurances with a curt, "You lie!" I don't believe Barack Obama either when he says nationalized health care won't fund abortions or illegal aliens. The federal government already subsidizes abortion and illegal aliens already benefit from Medicaid. If abortionists and illegal aliens would go unsubsidized, why are La Raza and Planned Parenthood so agressive in supporting Obama's "reform" efforts?
Liberals don't take the hint very well. After pushing for a government-run medical insurance company, Barack Obama has seen his poll numbers drop and his foot-soldiers in Congress get treated in their town hall meetings like the guy with a Red Sox hat at Yankee stadium. Still, he pushes for the wildly unpopular "public option," even if he dresses it up in another name or tweaks minor aspects of it. This shouldn't surprise. From Harry Truman to Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton, Democratic presidents have raised the idea of widespread nationalized healthcare only to have it rejected out of hand. But every generation, along comes a guy like Barack Obama, who interprets America's past rejection of socialized medicine as an inarticulate demand for it. Misread America's pulse at your own peril, Dr. Obama.
I'm not sure if the producers of this extremely racy advertisement want to convey the idea Adolf Hitler was really good in bed or that AIDS is like the Holocaust. Either way, their hypothesis is really controversial.
Byron York remembers. In a piece in the Washington Examiner, York recounts how liberals flipped out when George H.W. Bush addressed schoolchildren in 1991. The Washington Post complained, "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props." Rep. William Ford, Harold Ford's dad who then served as the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered an investigation and conducted a hearing in which top Bush administration officials, such as the secretary of education, were called to testify. The National Education Association even blasted Bush for what it aided Obama in doing.
Barack Obama's message to schoolchildren is one that they need to hear. Don't waste all your time playing videogames or delude yourself into believing a career in the National Basketball Association awaits. "[T]he circumstances of your life--what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude," the president declares. It's the right message, but there are better messengers. If children aren't reached by their parents or teachers with the same lesson, why do people think a complete stranger will somehow successfully impart it? The totality of politics for Barack Obama is displayed by his injection into nearly every school in the country. The event, which, in fairness to the president, is hardly unprecedented, represents the belief that federalism is an anachronism. Responsibilities properly undertaken at a more local level are usurped by one man in Washington. Why not have the president give an address on street sweepers, trash collection, snow plowing, or some other function of local government best kept far from the control of the federal government? It's not that the text of the president's speech is wrongheaded; it's just, coming from the chief executive of the federal government, a massive non sequitur.
When Massachusetts public opinion drifted left, Ted Kennedy followed--on the Vietnam War, taxes, abortion, and a whole host of issues. Where Ted Kennedy walked, Democrats followed. What ensured Ted Kennedy's political longevity in Massachusetts undermined the Democrats' ambitions as a national party. Read my piece @ City Journal the Democratic Party's long, strange trip tagging along with Ted Kennedy.
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Obama's spin doctors misread his sinking poll numbers. They believe the solution to their slump is more Obama. Obama in every school. Obama art for NEA-funded projects. And another, prime-time Obama address next Wednesday. This is more of the medicine that made their patient sick in the first place. Does it occur to them that America may be suffering from Obama fatigue? Calvin Coolidge, he is not.
Speaking of inflation, Theodore Dalrymple examines @ City Journal the moral, rather than the mere economic, ramifications of currency deflation. We live in a "borrow" culture instead of a "save" culture because of inflation by design. "But asset inflation--ultimately, the debasement of the currency--as the principal source of wealth corrodes the character of people," he writes. "It not only undermines the traditional bourgeois virtues but makes them ridiculous and even reverses them. Prudence becomes imprudence, thrift becomes improvidence, sobriety becomes mean-spiritedness, modesty becomes lack of ambition, self-control becomes betrayal of the inner self, patience becomes lack of foresight, steadiness becomes inflexibility: all that was wisdom becomes foolishness. And circumstances force almost everyone to join in the dance."
Last month I griped, and stocked up, in response to my state's raising sales taxes and imposing them for the first time upon booze, which already has hidden taxes. I haven't practiced civil disobedience yet by crossing the border into sales-tax free New Hampshire. But a state representative, dumb enough to be making the trip with his look-at-me-I'm-important license plate, has. While my civil disobedience stems from my opposition to the tax hike, this gentleman actually voted for it. The Boston Herald noted that he blamed the incident on "Republican demagoguery." He told a newspaper in New Bedford, "Unfortunately, I think that's why the Republican Party is in such bad shape in Massachusetts. The electorate here is smart enough to figure out what they're up to." An electorate that chose this man as representative of it can't be all that smart.
There is something fundamentally different, attitudinally, between liberals and conservatives. When the CEO of Whole Foods criticized ObamaCare, liberals protested the supermarket chain and organized a boycott. Ben & Jerry's has released Hubby Hubby ice cream, a parody of its Chubby Hubby ice cream that celebrates Vermont instituting gay marriage. The packaging features two grooms atop a wedding cake with a rainbow backdrop. I doubt I'll be eating any Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but it has nothing to do with Hubby Hubby. It's too expensive! Basic, relevant concerns like that guide my behavior as a consumer--does it taste good, is it priced right, is it good for me--not whether the guys behind the product share my politics. There is a politicization of inherently nonpolitical aspects of life--grocery shopping, ice cream--on the Left that, aside from the occasional boycot of Disney, doesn't really exist on the Right. This Tourette's-like impulse to announce one's politics loudly, and, in non sequitur fashion, inject it into areas where it doesn't belong, is what, more than anything else, alienates me from leftists.
I have written sporadically on the depreciation of the dollar since the advent of the Federal Reserve, a group of unaccountable managers appointed to tinker with what generally shouldn't be tinkered with. We don't alter the weight of a pound or the length of a foot. Why should unelected bureaucrats have the power to transform a dollar into a dime? Of particular interest has been the instructive website MeasuringWorth.com, which calculates the relative worth of today's dollar versus the dollar at any time in American history. Now, the Ludwig von Mises Institute has published this extraordinarily helpful graph illustrating the Federal Reserve's assault on a stable currency. The result is that 1789's dollar isn't even worth a dime today. One of the graph's captions asks the reader to "try to imagine what your life would be like if every dollar you had bought you 20 times as much stuff... This is the cost of inflation."
Only 46 percent of the American people approve of Barack Obama's performance as president, claims a new poll by Rasmussen. Forty-one percent strongly disapprove, with only thirty percent saying they strongly approve. Eighty-three percent of Republicans disapprove of the post-partisan president's job performance.


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The bride is the daughter of Jim and Cathy Hake of Cleveland and Marty Taylor of Harriman. She is the granddaughter of Jack Bache of Cleveland and the late Jean Bache, Barbara Taylor of Harriman and the late Ken Taylor and the late Joe and Thelma Hake.
The bridegroom is the son of Sara Klisz and Justin Lynse of Farragut and Timothy and Marylinda Wells of Frankfort, Ky. He is the grandson of the late Casmir and Doris Klisz, Maxine Wells of Edgewood, Ky. and the late James Wells .
The wedding was officiated by Craig Cooper, associate pastor of Redeeming Grace Church in Franklin, where they are both members. Nuptial music was provided by Zach Varnell, Melanie Peggs, Casey Holbrook and Matt Thornbury.
Given in marriage by her stepfather, the bride was attended by Emily Gardner of Cleveland as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Allison Calfee of Cleveland, Becca Tinker of Knoxville and Cassie Carter of Nashville.
Chris Wells, the bridegroom's brother, served as best man. Groomsmen included James Thayer and Tyler Thayer, both of Nolensville, and Alex Cole of Atlanta. Ushers were Justin Day, Matthew Lutey and Joshua Moore, all of Knoxville.
A reception was given for the couple at the church. The bride's book was attended by Kaitlyn Darby of Knoxville.
After a honeymoon cruise to Key West and Cozumel, the couple will reside in Nashville.
Mrs. Wells is a graduate of Walker Valley High School and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is employed with Genesis Academy in Nashville.
Mr. Wells is a graduate of Farragut High School and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is employed with the YMCA of Nashville.


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Car paint testing is tiresome yet studious
There are a lot of things that people take for granted and some of the most innocent things take a lot of work. Car paint, for instance, has to undergo a lot of screening before it can get put on a vehicle. Car paint screening includes exposing tones of paint to years of brutal climate conditions to see if it can stand up.
Many people want the right color
According to AutoBlog, automotive paint manufacturer PPG Industries found paint color on an automobile is a greatest influence on whether or not a consumer will purchase a car. PPG surveys of recent car buyers in 2011 found 48 percent of respondents chose their car depending on color alone and 70 percent reported color was a factor. Color availability was also a factor in the model consumers choose among 30 percent of respondents.
A lot of chemistry is actually needed to get a color, and then it takes a bunch of screening. The paint cannot go on the car unless it gets through paint testing first. Individuals might be surprised to find out how much work goes into their cars paint before it goes on their new Altima at from Magic Nissan Motors of Everett, WA.
Not the simplest process
If you believed it may be fun to test paint, you might want to get started. It is a very hard procedure and takes a long time because you have to test the paint against a ton of different elements. This contains rain, humidity, sizzling heat and a lot of ultraviolet radiation. The greatest testing facility where this is done is in Florida near the Everglades National Park, according to MyFox Tampa. The facility is found over 20-acres for screening.
There are up to 40,000 daily readings on paint and weather records, and the paint can spend up to 10 years in tests before getting authorized. The center is just like a giant percussion instrument since there are large 12 inch by 4 inch panels that are painted and set side by side.
According to Mike Crewdson, the facilitys manager, we sit around...and watch paint fade, which is more interesting than watching paint dry.
Only way to do it
The center works directly with the auto industry but will not say with whom for the most part; General Motors, which has been screening paint this way since the 1920s, admits to being one. GM\'s test is simple. If a color fades or otherwise doesn\'t measure up at Q-Lab, it doesn\'t get produced.
Automotive Testing and Development Services is a screening company that looks for weak points in vehicles and components by putting them through a ton of tests. Paint and fabrics are also tested by the business in the Arizona desert, according to HowStuffWorks. There is also a center there for Q-Lab. There is also a ton of testing done at the Nevada Automotive Test Center that tests military vehicles. Evidently it takes a lot of work before paint could be put on your car, and it is tested in many facilities.
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"Bomb Threat" Tweet Conviction Overturned By UK Appeals Court
timothy posted more than 2 years ago | from the hope-he-sends-some-celebratory-tweets dept.
103New submitter Kupfernigk writes "Paul Chambers was the man who was convicted (in England) of a terrorist offense based on a tweet threatening to 'blow up' Robin Hood Airport because they couldn't get snow cleared. Despite the fact that it was obviously a (feeble) joke, the Crown Prosecution Service actually went ahead with a prosecution and were able to convince a junior judge sitting with magistrates. The senior judges, including the Lord Chief Justice, said 'We have concluded that, on an objective assessment, the decision of the Crown Court that this 'tweet' constituted or included a message of a menacing character was not open to it. On this basis, the appeal against conviction must be allowed.' In effect, they have said that the original decision was not made objectively, which can be considered a severe slap for the Crown Prosecutor."


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Port: | Red Hook, St Thomas | Scuba: | Fully equipped |
Crew: | Skipper & Host / Chef | Max pax: | 8 |
Length: | 48 ft | Designer: | Privilege 482 |
Cruz Area: | Virgin Islands |
Pentesilea II is a 1992-launched Privilege catamaran operated by her professional crew in the Virgin Islands out of St Thomas or Tortola.
The catamaran is finished in varnished Cherry wood and light Caribbean colored fabrics. Pentesilea II features four guest cabins - 3 Doubles with en-suite bathroom and shower and 1 smaller double cabin / bed and bathroom which is ideal for children. The catamaran has plenty of natural ventilation and AC is available throughout the yacht. Pentesilea II is fully equipped for scuba diving including an onboard Dive Instructor. This is ideal for both certified divers as well as for those who would like to try scuba the first time with a Resort Course. It is also possible to do your open water certification dives with Captain Travis. Pentesilea II offers great value for family and friends. Come join Travis and Rosemary for a Caribbean sailing vacation of a lifetime! |
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Description: | Originally from the small lake town of Hartebeesport, South Africa; Hannes grew up sailing Hobie Cats, fishing and waterskiing. Later, after several years in Mozambique with his family, his love of the water broadened to a love of the ocean, nature and wildlife. Hannes knew he wanted to see more of the world. He left Africa and went on to explore Asia, South America, Europe, and various other parts of the world including the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. It was during this time that Hannes fell in love with scuba diving, gaining vast underwater experience in some of the world's most exotic dive locations. Hannes sailed the South Atlantic Yacht Race, Cape to Rio race and many other long distance races that took him all over the world. He has spent time delivering yachts across oceans and working on charter yachts. Hannes is a RYA Yacht Master Ocean Certified Captain and a Certified PADI Dive Instructor. Amy grew up in the heart of England and has always had a passion for traveling. After attaining a degree in Travel and Tourism she spent several years in the Canary Islands looking after groups of guests as a Holiday Representative. Later her wanderlust took her to Antibes, France where she started her career in the yachting world. Since then she has worked on many high profile super yachts as stewardess/deckhand and as chef on smaller yachts. Amy has a passion for cooking and baking. She loves trying new recipes and enjoys cooking internationally inspired cuisine. Her work and thirst for travel has given her the chance to spend time on her passions and hobbies. While in South Africa she completed her PADI Rescue Diver qualifications and also spent time sailing around the Cape attaining her RYA Day Skipper license, Power Boat level 2 and VHF licenses. Hannes and Amy have a wealth of experience to share and they will make you feel right at home aboard Pentesilea II. They are professional and know how to have a good time! Hannes and Amy look forward to welcoming you aboard. |
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Author Timothy Tyson to Discuss Book
Averett's Authors on Campus Series is pleased to host author Timothy Tyson at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 31 in Pritchett Auditorium. Tyson is the author of "Blood Done Sign My Name." His presentation will include a performance by Afro-American history studies performer Mary D. Williams. The event is free and open to the public.
"Blood Done Sign My Name," is a memoir and historical account of the murder of a black man, Henry Marrow, in Oxford, N.C. in 1970. The murder led to an African American uprising across eastern North Carolina and helped establish local civil rights activist Ben Chavis' leadership in the civil rights movement. The book has been made into an independent film that will come out later this year.
The book won the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction, Grawemeyer Award from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Christopher Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Tyson, a visiting professor at Duke University's Divinity School, also wrote "Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power." He was co-editor with David Cecelski of "Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy." He has written articles for "Journal of American History," "Christian Century," "Transforming Anthropology" and "The Crisis."
Williams, an Afro-American history studies performer, has focused on song and narrative of the Black South for more than 20 years. Along with Tyson, she has taught "The South in Black and White: History, Culture and Politics in the 20th Century South."
Averett's Authors on Campus Series is a component of the University's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), Reading Critically for Success.
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He has represented everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center. William M. Kunstler, with his trademark shaggy mane and glasses perpetually pushed back on his head, has become such a familiar radical lawyer that audiences giggled at the sight of him playing a reactionary judge in Malcolm X. But who would have guessed that the defender of the Chicago Seven would also be a poet? A sonneteer, to be precise, favoring the Shakespearean model of three quatrains and a couplet.
''I started writing them in court,'' says the gravel-voiced, 75-year-old attorney, who has just published Hints and Allegations, a collection of 96 sonnets withnotes that spell out the historical background of the poems. (The book's title comes from a line in the Paul Simon song ''You Can Call Me Al.'') ''I'd get bored and write sonnets on jury-selection motions, appeals...''
It wasn't long before he turned to topics closer to his heart political subjects, like the battle over abortion rights or the sins of U.S. foreign policy and began contributing the sonnets to the editorial page of the Amsterdam News, a black-owned weekly newspaper in New York City. His last collection, Trials and Tribulations, was published in 1985.
''For political poetry, the sonnet is great,'' says Kunstler. ''Not too long, not too short, and the last two lines give you the chance to drive your message home.'' As in these lines from a poem on a Supreme Court decision favoring the death penalty: ''We've given history an awful wrench/The lynch mob sits now on the highest bench.''
''They're not earthshaking poetry,'' he admits of his sonnets, ''but I think art should teach.'' Or, in this case, proselytize.


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Algebra Glossary: S
scientific notation: A standard way of writing very large and very small numbers as the product of two values — a number between 1 and 9 and a power of 10. Scientific notation follows the form N × 10a where N is a number from 1 up to 10, but not 10 itself, and a is an integer (positive or negative number).
sign: A symbol indicating whether a value is positive (+) or negative (−).
simple fraction: A fraction in which both the numerator and the denominator are whole numbers.
simplify: To combine all that can be combined in an expression or equation, and put it in its most easily understandable form.
solution of equation: Value(s) of a variable that make an equation a true statement.
solve: Find the answer or the number that a variable stands for.
square; perfect square: 1. The product of another number times itself. 2. A value with an exponent of 2.
square root: A value resulting when a given value is multiplied by itself.
substitution: A method of replacing a value with its equivalent.
sum: The result of addition.
symmetric property: A characteristic of equations that allows for the exchange of the value(s) on one side of the equal sign with the value(s) on the other side (quantities on the right go to the left; quantities on the left go to the right) without changing the truth of the equation: If x = y, then y = x.
synthetic division: A short-cut division process in which only the coefficients of the terms in an expression are used. The answer is obtained by multiplying and adding.


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Yank Sing
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San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
During the week, Yank Sing is a popular Rincon Center lunch spot with servers making dim sum cart rounds amidst packed tables. On weekend evenings, tables are set up in the Center's towering atrium for elegant Chinese wedding banquets. Named an "American Classic" by the James Beard Foundation in 2009, this restaurant is the kind of place locals take out-of-towners for Saturday dim sum brunch. The soup dumplings, shu mai, and sesame balls are menu stand-bys, but entrees like the chicken and lotus root cake demonstrate Yank Sing's creative side.
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The Financial District is pretty dead on the weekend. After brunch, head to the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero (just a 10 minute walk away) for the weekend farmer's market.
Open / Closes- Accessible by Public Transportation
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Unfortunately I did not read the ingredients and did not notice that it had Mineral oil. It weighed my hair down and it was super oily and unmanageable.... I picked this up at my local Winco and it was cheap (packet form). I believe it's for African American hair only. I have thick wavy hair and this made my hair greasy... I like how it had no sulfate or parabens...and the scent was nice and very subtle...
But the mineral oil made it super greasy :(
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I bought 2 packs of these at CVS/Pharmacy, there was a sale on them at the time. I've only used one of the packages so far, and there was enough product in one package for me to use for two wash days. I have a relaxed hair, about 2/3 weeks after my last relaxer. I used the product with heat the first time and I can't really complain about the results. The second time, I just left it on my hair for an hour. Both times I experienced a tingling sensation which I liked. I didn't try detangling my hair with it on and I wouldn't suggest it. It did make my hair feel soft.
This deep conditioning treatment is the worst I've ever used in my entire life. The brand does sound very professional and good but to my horror this product does nothing good but leaves your hair feeling so damn oily. As if I didn't wash my hair for more than a week. I'm sure I rinsed it off properly. I always try to convince myself that the product is good so that I won't feel bad for wasting money. But this product is so bad to the extend that not only I feel bad for wasting money on it, my hair is now so oily and disgustingly flat that I feel like shit!!!!!! I bought this in Johannesburg and it cost like 3-4 sgd. DON'T BUY THIS SHIT . Argh


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"I think Justin's parents may be a little mad at us for moving," Amanda told me in San Antonio, and judging by the reaction I got from Nancy Leonard when I asked her about the upcoming move during an interview in the living room of the elder Leonards' house, Amanda may be right. "I only know what I read about it in the papers," she replied, a bit icily.
Leonard is still close to his parents, and he and Amanda spend a lot of time with them, both on the road and in Dallas. But, well—boys do grow up.
Maybe it's pointless for anyone in the age of Tiger, except Tiger himself, to talk about being number one in the world, and Leonard gave the expected demurral when I asked if he thought he could take over the top spot. "My goal is to be the best player that I can be," he said. "Is that number one in the world?I don't know. I certainly feel that I can play at the same level or higher than I have before. And I feel like I can win more major championships and other big tournaments at the highest level."
If this standard "be the best player I can be" response holds true for anyone, it holds true for Leonard. Never blessed with knock-your-socks-off length or other supernatural gifts like the Woodses, Elses and Mickelsons of the world, Leonard has always predicated his game on coaxing maximum advantage from the skills he does have, particularly his short game. His self-control and golf smarts, Hogan-like, may be the best in the game today.
When I asked Leonard to discuss the pivotal moments in his career, he brought up the Phoenix Open in 1996, his second year on Tour. At that point he had not yet won a tournament (later that season he would win the Buick Open), but at Phoenix he got into a two-man play-off with Phil Mickelson, the hometown favorite. "That was the year the tournament finished on Saturday because the Super Bowl was taking place in Tempe on Sunday. Even in normal years, the Phoenix Open is known for the fans having a good time. The people there drink a little bit. But this year there were 150,000 fans on the course, if you can imagine that, and all but maybe eight of them were rooting for Phil." Amid the uproar, Leonard somehow managed to match Mickelson's birdie and par on the first two play-off holes and to par the third before losing when Mickelson rolled in a birdie putt. Leonard was proud of his performance: "I proved a lot to myself in just those three holes. After that, I knew I didn't have to let anything bother me."
In the six years since, Mickelson with his flamboyant talent has gone on to win twenty-one times on Tour. Leonard has won only seven times, but it is he, not Mickelson, who has a major title on his résumé. Leonard is anything but flashy, even post-Transition, but he seems happier, freer and more comfortable in his skin than he has ever been. Assuming his ambition remains keen, it will be interesting in the years ahead to see what he can accomplish.


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My chair is a model 010419.
and one of the screws in the reclining mechanism has gone missing. Without it, the back tends to sag backward, rather than remain fully upright.
The screw has a thin, large diameter head. Beneath that is a cylindrical shoulder about 1/8" long and about 5/16" diameter and then there is a section of screw threads, possibly #10 or #12, and about 1/4" long.
I would like to acquire 3 or 4 of these pieces. How & where?
iT ONLY LASTED 1 MONTTH HOWEVER And they would not warranty because it was out of the electrical warranty period for their lifetime warranty chair
light brown woodgrain with LaZboy engraved. It goes on a 3/8 or 1/2 square shaft. Is my lifetime warrentee good? Where can I get a
replacement or have one sent to me. I will replace it myself. I
purchased the Recliner in 2005.
Patrick Johnstone
1957 Mesquite Ave, Unit 20
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 Thanks
My profile page link is to these pictures AND NOTHING ELSE.
Handles, springs, rocker bases, mechanism parts, are all usually covered under the lifetime warranty and should be in stock at the larger dealers. Most parts for late model lift chairs such as, transformers, hand wands, control modules, and even some motors are stocked as well. However, the electrical parts only have a three year warranty and usually have to be purchased. I always tell my customer's to try to bring the defective part with them and to also bring the acknowledgment-line item number, which is available on the law tag that usually hangs underneath the leg rest, or somewhere under the chair on the frame.
Again, most of the parts I have seen people looking for are available at the Gallery stores. If they stone-wall you, and tell you that they don't have them, put the pressure on, because they do have access to them! More advice... don't even bother with the sales dept. Go directly to the service dept. Some shops will even repair on site provided you bring the chair to them. Or, can give you the name of a contractor who repairs out of warranty problems.
One more thing...don't care what your sales person told you, here is the warranty. Limited lifetime warranty on wood frame, and metal mechanism parts. Service is free for one year after delivery, if purchased from a Galleries. I am not sure about other independents. After the first year a trip fee and labor is applied. No where in the warranty does it say that labor is covered for lifetime even though I know it is sometimes implied at the time of sale. Also, if you purchase an additional warranty, it is usually only for the fabric or leather protection ONLY, and does not apply to anything else. I hope this helps folks out.
I know one famous company who can supply large of recliner handles and cables , yes I work there !so you can contact me if you need .They supply the best service and the best quality also the best price .
Also it is supplier for LAZY-BOY in China.
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The controller is from InSeat Solutions; Model # 11241;
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WOW - stunning! What kind of camera? thanks for posting Frances |
Thanks. Francis that one was taken with a Konica-Minolta Z6 I keep in the car. |
That is pretty! I'm thinking of keeping a p&s in the car. Thinking of an upgraded one. I still have an Olympus 510 but remember the frustration of shutter lag. So may be checking around. I hear canon G10 are wonderful but not sure if willing to pay the going price of $500 a little more/less. sheesh, never new a p&s could be so high! |
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Ask HE: How Much Salt is Too Much?
by Dana Angelo White in Healthy Tips, June 9, 2010Heavily-salted foods are on the chopping block all over the country. Some of the world's largest food companies are slashing the salt content of their foods, and a new study says salt reduction can help your health. But is all salt bad?
Q: Should I be cutting all the salt out of my diet? How much is too much?
A: You want salt…. you need salt….. but check your diet to make sure you're not going overboard, especially if you have high blood pressure.
Salt is a valuable flavor enhancer and electrolyte that your body needs for muscle function, fluid balance, and nervous system health. Despite the need for some salt in the diet, many Americans go (way) overboard with diets that are too high in processed and prepared foods.
The daily recommendation for sodium is 2300 milligrams a day for a healthy adult –- that's equal to about 1 teaspoon. Since too much sodium can aggravate high blood pressure and kidney disease, people that suffer from these conditions should cap their salt intake to 1500 milligrams or less per day. Despite these recommendations, many Americans take in closer to 4700 milligrams per day!
So where does the majority of the salt in American's diets come from? Processed and prepared foods make up close to 80 percent. So, it's not the extra sprinkle from the salt shaker or the pinches of salt used in home cooking – those only contribute to 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Check out the Center for Science in the Public Interest's list of worst offenders – steer clear of those foods and use our tips below to keep your salt intake in check.
Tips for Shaking the Salt Habit:
- Read labels carefully
- Cut back on processed foods, especially canned soups and prepared frozen entrees
- Cut back on take-out and restaurant foods – 1 to 2 times a week at the most
- If you use canned foods, choose low sodium and no salt added versions
- Measure out those "pinches" and "dashes" of salt while you're cooking — you'll know just how much you're adding.
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »
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Regeneration #7 asregenerationATyahoo.com
I think that Ashlee is probably one of the bravest zinesters out there. Every one of her zines is brutally honest, but this one may be the most brutal yet. It's about walking the fine line between alcohol abuse and addiction. The story begins at age twelve, when Ashlee takes her first drink, and then we find her in her mid-twenties, partying day and night to the point of blackouts and injury and finally an arrest for drunk driving. She makes no excuses for being a party girl, though this zine could almost be read as cautionary tale.
Girl Name
A dialogue on transgender rights, feminism and gender-neutral bathrooms, written in comic form. Good stuff. I picked it up through Secret People Distro.
Un billet pour Paris punkoliqueAThotmail.com
In this French-language perzine, Quebec City's Andreanne writes about traveling to Paris at eighteen years old; her first trip away from home. It seems like someone always wants to ruin her day - from the cousin who refuses to acknowledge her presence, to a friend who decides he's too hungry to look at art immediately upon entering the Louvre, to the masses of creeps who honk horns and yell at her during a morning walk. But in the end, she managed to explore the city and admire its beauties. This quarter-size zine is typewritten and handwritten with cutsie illustrations and clippings throughout. As a sidenote, is Paris the capital of creepy dudes or what? When a friend and I visited a few years ago, strange men literally followed us down the street, gawked at us through restaurant windows while we ate, and asked us to accompany them to their hotel rooms.
Stick #1-#4 punkoliqueAThotmail.com
The above zinester also makes mini-zines! Some are black and white, some are full-colour and each includes illustrations mixed with a cut-and-paste layout, lists, quotes, recipes and other fun stuff. Absolutely adorable! (Note: These ones are written in English).
Watch Him Bleed #3 / Licking Stars Off Ceilings #15 ivanaforpresidentAThotmail.com / lickingstarsoffceilingsAThotmail.com
It's always nice to find something from Ivana in my mailbox. In this issue of Watch Him Bleed, she writes about her childhood in the Former Yugoslavia (um, one line in particular made me tear up a bit), her current life in Sydney, Australia and her concept of home. She's an angry punk girl who makes no excuses for getting drunk and breaking hearts and writing all about it. In the other half of the split, Clementine Cannibal takes over with the fifteenth issue of her perzine, Licking Stars Off Ceilings. This time around, we find that she has fallen in love (aww!), but that doesn't mean that she's gonna quiet down. Readers of previous issues will know that she often wrote explicitly about no-strings-attached sex and seemed to place a lot of value in what other men thought of her. While the sex is still present, it seems like she has finally taken stock of her life, decided what's important to her (love, health, grrrls around the world) and will fight to hang on to it.
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Vivian Girls are the return to lo-fi garage rock. A trio of females with haunting songs that make you want to listen to more. This single was what got me into this band; I heard "I Can't Stay" then immediately bought their album. The single is on In The Red Records and features just two tracks. The A side features "I Can't Stay"; it's a great song, not exactly a catchy tune but it leaves you wanting to hear more. I can't say I care too much for the B side however. It's "Blind Spot" by Daisy Chain, it's got more of an off putting feel really, almost a gothyness to it. I'm not quite sure where this song came from it doesn't quite seem to fit in with most of Vivian Girls stuff. But as bad as the B side of this single is the A side more than makes up for it. The Vivian Girls aren't for everyone but they're for a lot of people.
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Kinkuna section of Burrum Coast National Park preserves a wilderness area of coastal vegetation and wide, unspoilt beaches, just 30 kilometres south of Bundaberg. The Burrum Coast National Park which also incorporates both Woodgate and Burrum River sections is part of the Great Sandy Region, of which Fraser Island is best known. Kinkuna offers a true coastal wilderness experience for camping or hiking. Sand tracks lead through the predominantly flat landscape dense with vegetation and along the oceanfront.
... moreKinkuna section is renowned for its springtime wildflower displays. The vegetation of coastal heath and banksias grows in poor, sandy soils either swampy or very dry and as is often the case, these types of areas put on a spectacular wildflower show - where it seems every bush and tree is covered in pale blossoms of white, pink and yellow hues. August to October is the peak time to view these wildflowers here, in Woodgate section and also just to the north at the Coonarr Wildflower Reserve. Kangaroos and wallabies, emus and abundant birdlife are features of the park.
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Wilderness camping is permitted in two designated areas atop the dunes and shaded by she-oak casuarinas. Campers must be fully self-sufficient as there are no facilities at all in the park. Nearest water, food and fuel supplies are at Woodgate Beach or back towards Bundaberg itself. Please check with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service contact listed for park and track conditions and camping permits. Access into the park for day visits is free, camping requires a permit.
How To Get There
Travel 14 kilometres south from Bundaberg or 40 kilometres north east from Childers on the Bundaberg-Goodwood-Childers Road. Turn into Coonarr Road at the railway overpass and follow for eight kilometres, then turn right into Palm Beach Road for one kilometre to the park boundary for one kilometre to the park boundary. Follow the signs to the bush camping areas.
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I have a Craftman lawn tractor model number 917.287360, engine model number SV610-0021 (kohler 21 HP). I had in issue starting my tractor that caused me to unplug the seat, brake and blade safety switches. I also removed and tested the solenoid and starter. I resolved one issue (with the help of the forum) but created another. The tractor will now start and run until I remove my foot from the brake, then it will stall. I unplugged the brake safety switch, jumped the white wires (to solenoid) and left the black wires (ground I believe ) open. The tractor now starts and runs fine, however, when I try to engage the blade, it stalls. Also the seat safety switch no longer shuts the engine off when I get off the seat. I tested the seat safety switch with a new switch and it still does not shut off the engine. My guess is I can unplug to blade switch and jump it, but I want to get the safety switches working. Anyone have any ideas where to look next? |
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I posted this note with my orginal posting - Intermittent starting problem on Craftman Tractor (99% of the time) - if this needs to be deleted now, how do I do that |
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It has been some time since I have posted on the this blog, and to be honest, I have been so busy I actually forgot it existed until the domain renewal came up. Being back into the eating scene, I thought I would share one of the best experiences I have had in a long time. It was one of the most unhealthy eating sessions, but it was so fun at the same time.
My friend started a blog (Burgers of Melbourne) and he was invited to go and taste the new menu at Hello Sam, an inner Melbourne city burger place that wants to be famous for their triple patty burgers.
The new menu consisted of 3 new burgers, the option was to get these single, double or triple patty, and of course we decided to go triple on every single one of them. 2 of us, 3 triple patty monsters followed by bacon and cheese fried and onion rings. Below are the 3 babies we tried!
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Bad habitsbeing cheeky and a bit of a dirty bitch at times
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