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UPDATED DECEMBER 2013: A guide to official sledding locations in Brooklyn, including NYC parks that allow sledding and snow tubing in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Fort Greene, Prospect Park, and Sunset Park.
Wondering where to hit the slopes with your toboggan or snow tube in Brooklyn this winter? Check out these top sledding spots in your area for a perfect way to spend a snow day with your kids.
Fort Greene Park
Interior of the park at Willoughby Avenue, Fort Greene/Clinton Hill
The hill near the Prison Ship Martyrs monument is quite a wild ride. It surrounds all four sides of the monument so it never gets too crowded, but the steepest and least crowded area is at the top of the hill. The hill is easily accessible from the park's Willoughby Avenue entrance.
Highland Park
Highland Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, Cypress Hills
A very overlooked park, on the border between Brooklyn and Queens in Cypress Hills, is Highland Park. The park is in fact on a high plateau that seems to crease the middle of Long Island well beyond city limits. The views of the ocean are stunning enough, but the sledding is primo!
Hillside Park
Middagh and Vine streets, Brooklyn Heights
With a name like Hillside, you know you're in for a few slopes. This park also boasts a dog run, so bring the family pooch along on your sledding adventure. The park is located in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Heights promenade.
Lincoln Terrace Park
Between Buffalo and Rochester avenues, adjacent to Eastern Parkway service road, Brownsville/Crown Heights
After a solid snowfall, this slope is as good as any in the city, and you might get the added bonus of smaller crowds than the bigger parks.
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Fort Hamilton Parkway and 75th Street, Bay Ridge
Don't let its size fool you—this park has a solid hill that's perfect on a snowy afternoon. There's also a playground, dog run, and year-round public bathroom.
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Colonial Road and 68th Street, Sunset Park
On the boarder of Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, this park boasts not only an amazing skate park but a huge hill that seems to drop off into New York Harbor. It's an exhilarating ride, indeed. Be aware that there are no public restrooms in Owl's Head Park.
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Near the Tennis House at Prospect Park West and 9th Street
The hills here attract sledders from Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and beyond. The most popular slope is near the old tennis house and the current picnic house (nearest entrance is on Prospect Park West and 9th Street), but if that's too crowded, try the one in the meadow off Grand Army Plaza or the one behind the Picnic House, at the Third Street entrance.
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Laminitis research
What is Laminitis?
The digital laminae are responsible for suspension of the axial skeleton of the animal within the hoof and dissipate concussive forces during locomotion. There are about 600 pairs of interleaved laminae: the epidermal laminae attached to the hoof wall and the dermal laminae attached to the coffin bone. Laminitis results from a compromise of this interaction, the mechanism of which remains unclear and is currently the subject of much research. Laminitis literally means inflammation of the laminae, and while it remains controversial whether this is the primary mechanism of disease, evidence of inflammation occurs very early in some instances of the disease.
In laminitis cases, a clear distinction must be made between the acute situation, starting at the onset of a laminitis attack and a chronic situation. A chronic situation can be either stable or unstable. The difference between acute, chronic, stable and unstable is of vital importance, when choosing a treatment protocol.
Laminitis can be mechanical or systemic, unilateral (on one foot) or bilateral (on two feet) or may also occur in all four feet.
Systemic laminitis follows from some metabolic disturbance within the horse, from a multitude of possible causes, and results in the partial dysfunction of the epidermal and dermal laminae, which attach the distal phalanx to the hoof wall. With this dysfunction, the deep digital flexor tendon (which attaches to the semi-lunar crest of the distal phalanx and serves to flex the foot) is able to pull the bone away from the wall, instead of flexing the foot. When the coffin bone is pulled away from the hoofwall, the remaining laminae will tear. This may lead to abscesses, within the hoof capsule, that can be severe and very painful.
Systemic laminitis is usually bilateral and is most common in the front feet, although it sometimes affects the hind feet.
Mechanical laminitis or "mechanical founder" does not start with laminitis or rotation of the distal phalanx. Instead, the wall is pulled away from the bone or lost, as a result of external influences. Mechanical founder can occur when a horse habitually paws, is ridden or driven on hard surfaces or loses laminar function, due to injury or pathologies affecting the wall.
Mechanical founder can be either unilateral or bilateral and can affect both front and hind feet.
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a) X-ray of a Laminitis hoof with rotation of coffin bone and some sinking
b) Dr Ric Redden's typical diagram when working with x-rays
c) Venogram of normal hoof
What Causes Laminitis?
Obesity is a primary predisposing factor, with some horses and breeds having a genetic susceptibility. Individuals might have efficient energy metabolism and/or nutrient digestion or absorption, or they might have an insatiable appetite. Diet and management practices that lead to obesity include overfeeding (particularly grain), lack of exercise, and varied perceptions of what is considered "good" body condition.
Equine metabolic syndrome describes a syndrome of obesity with regional fat deposits in the neck, prepuce or udder, rump, and subcutaneous tissues. There can be a genetic and/or breed predisposition coupled with insulin resistance (IR) and high risk for laminitis.
Part of the equine metabolic syndrome picture includes insulin resistance, which describes reduced response to insulin to take up glucose in the tissues (skeletal muscle, fat, and liver). Progression of obesity and insulin resistance exacerbates laminitis risk. As a horse gets fatter, insulin sensitivity decreases. Insulin resistance worsens with chronic obesity, making a horse more susceptible to laminitis and less tolerant of triggering events. The longer a horse is obese, the more other tissues are affected.
Laminitis triggers include exacerbation of an insulin resistance crisis due to increased starch and sugar in green grass or other stresses, such as diet and grain supplements, change in pasture, stress of transport, "mechanical separation" (road founder), management or weather, poor blood circulation, disease, hospitalization, and/or surgery. The crisis might be related to seasonal hormonal changes. Another trigger develops in the intestine, particularly when a horse is turned out on new pasture with a sudden increase in starches, sugars, and fructans that creates a carbohydrate overload in the large intestine. This alters bacterial flora, lowers the pH, increases intestinal permeability, and results in endotoxemia, which increases multiorgan inflammation, increases vascular constriction, and induces IR.
The following preventive strategies for avoiding these laminitis scenarios are recommended:
- Manage and treat obesity and insulin resistance;
- Treat equine Cushing's disease and monitor regularly;
- Provide consistent farrier care;
- Regulate starch, sugar, and calorie intake;
- Avoid sudden feed changes;
- Gradually introduce a horse to new pasture; and
- Treat endotoxemia and systemic inflammation.
more on "reasons" for Laminitis: AAEP 2008: Causes of Laminitis
Other possible reasons for laminitis
Who is doing the research?
International Equine Podiatry Center, Versailles, KY
Scool of Veterinary Science - The University of Queensland Headed by Professor Chris Pollitt, also in charge of Australian Equine Laminitis Research Unit
Royal Veterinary College, London
Penn Veterinary School of Medicine
What is the state of that research?
Laminitis Treatment: Natural Perspective by Joyce Harman DVM and Madalyn Ward DVM
Founder: Prevention & Cure the Natural Way, 2001 by Jaime Jackson (Star Ridge Publishing) Considered to be one of the most controversial yet written on the subject AND the most useful.
Articles and studies
Various Articles on Laminitis from the International Equine Resource Center
Heparin Might Prevent Laminitis after Colic Surgery The Horse 9/27/09
Equine Metabolic Syndrome a Focus of Research The Horse 8/25/09
Hoof Radiographs The Horse 5/1/05
Laminitis risk Increased by Pasture Grass Sugars The Horse 6/29/09
Metformin a Therapy in Progress for Equine Insulin Resistance The Horse 5/25/09
Form and Function: Managing Chronic Laminitis The Horse 4/3/09
AAEP 2008: Causes of Laminitis The Horse 4/1/09
Laminitis: Cryotherapy Treatment in the Real World The Horse 3/27/09
AAEP 2008: Are Drugs Effective for Acute Laminitis? The Horse 3/18/09
Teff Hay for Foundered Horses: A Good Fit? The Horse 12/22/08
Forage Options for Special Needs Horses The Horse 11/8/08
Autumn Brings Challenges to Cushing's Diagnosis, Management The Horse 9/27/08
Diagnosing Insulin Resistance: Q&A with Researchers The Horse 8/31/08
The Science of Seasons Behind Laminitis, PPID The Horse 7/20/08
Potomac Horse Fever: Don't Ignore Fevers! The Horse 7/7/08 Potomac fever may lead to laminitis...
Inside the Laminitic Foot The Horse 7/1/08 ONE OF THE BEST ARTICLES - PLEASE READ
Slimming Down & EQUINE METABOLIC SYNDROME AND INSULIN RESISTANCE The Horse 7/1/07
Managing Acute and Chronic Laminitis The Horse.com 6/1/08
Wooden Shoes for Chronic Laminitis The Horse.com 4/23/08
Preliminary Study Performed on New Laminitis Treatment Technique The Horse.com 4/4/08
Control Spring Pasture Access The Horse.com 3/31/08
Lessons from Barbaro The Horse.com 3/23/08
Reducing Hindgut Acidosis The Horse.com 3/17/08
Healthy Hooves, Inside and Out The Horse 3/1/08 Including "THE MYTH OF MATCHING FEET", by Dr Ric Redden
Dangerous Liaisons: Cytokines, Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance The Horse.com 1/31/08
Laminitis Conference an Important Step The Horse.com 12/24/07
Staving off Laminitis with a Buffer Solution The horse.com 12/23/07
Readers Respond: Diagnosing Laminitis The Horse.com 12/14/07
2007 Morris Animal Foundation Equine Research Wrap-Up The Horse.com 12/14/07
Illinois Vet School Reporting Cases of Black Walnut Laminitis The Horse.com 12/11/07
Horse Health News Video: Ryder Report for Nov. 28 The Horse 11/28/07 VIDEO
Laminitis Pain Might Originate from Different Source The Horse 11/27/07
Insulin Levels Might Help Measure Likelihood of Laminitis The Horse 11/26/07
The Timeline of Laminitis The Horse.com 11/23/07
Laminitis Conference Ramps Up the Fight Against Foot Problems in Horses The Horse 11/20/07
Couple Donates $1 Million to UPenn Laminitis Research Fund The Horse 11/15/07
Laminitis Studies Financed by Barbaro Fund to Commence The Horse.com 11/8/07
Chronicling Laminitis: Horse Owner Records Every Step Toward Recovery The Horse 9/20/07 including VIDEO
Laminitis: New Study on Sugar and Starch as a Cause The Horse.com 8/25/07
Understanding Laminitis On-Demand Webinar The Horse 8/11/07 VIDEO
Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Laminitis The Horse 7/31/08
Obesity and Laminitis The Horse 7/9/07
Foot X Rays: A Crystal Ball? The Horse 6/17/07 A really good article, by Ric Redden, DVM, founder of the International Equine Podiatry Center in Versailles, Ky. - why having an educated and skilled farrier is one of the most important things, when you have a horse with Laminitis...
Finding and Testing Low-Sugar Forage The Horse 5/14/07
The Quest to Conquer Laminitis The Horse 5/1/07 ...another one about Ric Redden! Excerpt: "Horses are very durable, and they'll lie through their teeth about how they're feeling," Redden said. "Do not depend on the horse to tell you how healthy the laminae are. Depend on your venogram."
Feeding Laminitic Horses The Horse 5/1/07
Changing Carbohydrate Evaluations in Animal Diets The Horse 4/15/07
Breeding a Laminitic Mare? The Horse 2/1/07
AHF knocks on doors in Washington Animal Health Foundation 11/06
Another Piece of the Laminitis Puzzle The Horse 11/26/06
Good Foot Gone Bad The Horse 9/1/06
UNDERSTANDING THE HORSE'S SOLES by Pete Ramey 8/16/05
Can Laminitis be Inherited? The Horse 10/1/03
Related studies
Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS)
E M S By John Stewart MA VET MB MRVCS
Equine Metabolic Syndrome By Kentucky Equine Research (PDF file)
Equine Metabolic Syndrome a Focus of Research The Horse 8/25/09
Table Topic: Cushing's or Metabolic Syndrome? The Horse 4/17/09
No Sugarcoating: Diagnosing and Managing the Insulin-Resistant Horse The Horse 10/19/08
Equine Metabolic Syndrome Versus Cushing's Syndrome The Horse 2/19/07 by Lydia Gray, DVM, MA
Metformin a Therapy in Progress for Equine Insulin Resistance The Horse 5/25/09
A Closer Look at Insulin The Horse 4/21/05
Minnesota Veterinary Medical Association
New Feeding product from Purina Mills: WellSolve L/S (Low Starch) Benefits: Low starch and sugars, no grains or molasses, digestable/fermentable fibers as an alternative energy source, added antioxidants, veterinarian researched.
Some of the conditions affecting special needs horses include: Insulin resistance and/or Equine Metabolic Syndrome, Laminitis, Cushing's syndrome
Feed is based on beet pulp, alfalfa and ground soy hulls. It also consists of vitamins A, D and E, Biotin, Soy bean oil, ground Flaxseed, Lysine, Threonine, Methionine, minerals; Copper and Zinc
Target IR A supplement that targets the special needs of insulin resistant horses but is also appropriate for any horse on a predominately hay diet. Designed to match the most commonly encountered mineral problems and other deficiencies in grass
Soaking Hay to reduce carbohydrates?
Excerpt from Revised Understanding Equine Nutrition: Energy and Carbs The Horse 6/4/08
Preventing Equine Laminitis and Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (PDF file) by Sloane Lipkin, Jonathan Rose, and Margaret Taylor Governor's School for Agriculture, Virginia Tech, VA
Cutting Down on Carbs (For Your Horse) Study by Kathryn Watts, BS, director of research for Rocky Mountain Research and Consulting
Take Control of Laminitis in Your Horse by Eleanor Kellon, VMD
Danger in Your Horse's Grass: Fructan Equisearch.com
With Horse Hay, Wetter Can Be Better My Horse.com by Eleanor Kellon, VMD
White Line Disease
White line disease (WLD) is a term used to describe a keratolytic process on the solar surface of the hoof, which is characterized by a separation of the inner zone of the hoof wall (Redden, 1991). The separation occurs in the non-pigmented horn at the junction between the stratum medium and the stratum lamellatum. This separation is invaded by opportunistic bacteria/fungi at the toe, quarter and/or heel leading to infection, which progresses to varying heights and configurations toward the coronet. The disease process occurs secondary to a primary hoof problem such as chronic laminitis, abnormal hoof conformation, hoof imbalance or any other condition that causes a hoof wall separation. The disease has been termed seedy toe, yeast infection, Candida and onychomycosis.
White Line Disease - An Update by Stephen E. O'Grady, DVM, MRCVS
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c) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3663/3364427804_da19af31cb.jpga) Typical signs of WLD
b) Resected hoof (carv out all affected tissue to let hoof air)
c) 3 weeks after resection, hoof dried out
Laminitis Treatment Centers
Premier Equine Center, CA Healing, rehabilitation and conditioning.
Orthopeadic Research Center, Colorado State University, CO
Rocky Mountain Equine Podiatry Center, CO
International Equine Podiatry Center, KY
Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, Podiatry Center, KY
Louisiana State University, LA
Equine Studies at the University of Maryland, MD
Davie County Large Animal Hospital, NC
Penn Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA
The Podiatry Center at Reata Equine Hospital, TX Opened the Podiatry Center in April of 2008: Texas Equine Hospital Opening Podiatry Center Some success stories of severe laminitis!!
Northern Virginia Equine - Ocala Equine Podiatry, VA Headed by Dr Stephen E. O'Grady, DVM, MRCVS
Symposiums and Seminars
Laminitis conference - Palm Beach, Nov, 2007
How can one contribute to Laminitis research?
You can help support Penn's effort: Fight Laminitis
Laminitis Research Gets a Boost Bloodhorse 1/31/08 Pfizer Animal Health and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association have joined forces to help fund laminitis research through the NTRA Charities - Barbaro Memorial Fund.


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Pride is at center of today's 'atheistic' culture
Vaclav Havel, the poet-turned-president, has something of value to say about a culture too proud of its knowledge to even think there is anything of mystery in the universe.
Twenty years ago the remarkable Czech poet and playwright, Vaclav Havel, came to the world's attention as a leader of the Czech resistance to Soviet totalitarianism. Subsequently, the poet became a president, the first president of the Czech Republic.
This month Havel addressed the opening ceremony of Forum 2000, a conference on architecture and urbanism, with an extended lament on the heedlessness of modern life.
"Our cities," Havel said as he began his remarks, "are being permitted without control to destroy the surrounding landscape with its nature, traditional pathways, avenues of trees, villages, mills, and meandering streams, and build in their place some sort of gigantic agglomeration that renders life nondescript, disrupts the network of natural human communities and under the banner of international uniformity it attacks all individuality, identity, or heterogeneity."
Havel asserts that we are not only living in the first truly global civilization but "also the first atheistic civilization," "a civilization that has lost its connection with the infinite and the eternal." In his protest against both globalism and atheism, Havel sounds very much like another artist, the American writer and farmer, Wendell Berry.
What Havel means by "atheism" is noteworthy and, in the American context, unusual. He doesn't define it in relation to creed or church, but as a kind of self-confident heedlessness that neglects relationships and limits. "The most dangerous aspect of this global atheistic civilization is its pride," he said. "The pride of someone driven by the very logic of his wealth to stop respecting the contribution of nature and our forebears, to stop respecting it on principle and respect it only as a further potential of profit."
With no notion of the infinite, humanity has, as Havel sees it, lost a proper sense of its own finitude.
"I sense behind all of this not only a globally spreading short-sightedness, but also the swollen self-consciousness of this civilization, whose basic attributes include the supercilious idea that we know everything and what we don't yet know we'll soon find out, because we know how to go about it."
"But with the cult of measurable profit, proven progress, and visible usefulness, there disappears respect for mystery and along with it humble reverence for everything we shall never measure and know, not to mention the vexed question of the infinite and eternal, which were until recently the most important horizon of our actions."
In America we have become accustomed to the debates of believers and the new atheists (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, et al.) as something both creedal and political. The New Atheists believe that religion is the problem and banishing religion will automatically lead to a new enlightenment.
For Havel, the atheism that worries him is less confessional ("Do you believe in God?") than functional ("Are you aware of your own finitude?"). It manifests itself as a loss of wonder and mystery, and of a sense of limits and restraint. "Wonder and an awareness that things are not self-evident are, I believe, the only way out of the dangerous world of a civilization of pride."
Havel included in his remarks to the architects and urban planners reflections on the present economic crisis. He describes it as, "a very edifying signal to the contemporary world."
"Most economists relied directly or indirectly on the idea that the world, including human conduct, is more or less understandable, scientifically describable and hence predictable," Havel said. "Market economics and its entire legal framework counted on knowing who man is and what aims he pursues, what was the logic behind the actions of banks or firms, what the shareholding public does and what one may expect from some particular firm or community.
"And all of sudden none of that applied. Irrationality leered at us from the stock-exchange screens. And even the most fundamentalist economists, who — having the most intimate access to the truth — were convinced with unshakeable assurance that the invisible hand of the market knew what it was doing, had suddenly to admit they were taken by surprise.
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Posted Wed, Oct 27, 4:44 a.m.
That's pure assertion with no foundation. Havel's perspective and nothing more. He offers no reference to any text or act. He cannot.
I can define atheism as "love of bowling" but that doesn't make it so.
Likewise, Havel can claim that atheism is "self-confident heedlessness that neglects relationships and limits." And that too is without basis. He doesn't even offer any examples. Just mere claims.
He alludes to the collapse of the housing market as something magical and mystical when it's obvious that making home loans without lending standards was just stupid. Do I suggest that there is no mystery concerning the behavior of humans? Of course not. But there is no relationship between recognizing unknown unknowns (and maybe unknown unknowables) has nothing to do with religion or atheism.
If someone has a religious belief, that's fine. Pray, Believe. But please let's not contort definition of words to suit his or her own purpose.
It's comical, certainly a bit presumptuous (even if he is a 'name') that someone would claim that atheists don't have a sense of awe about the world and our existence -- a sense of awe about the stars in the sky or a bowling ball or even people who make odd assertions.
Btw, fwiw, I am not an atheist.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 10:21 a.m.
Most true atheists don't concern themselves with organized religion. That should be the definition of an atheist: One who is without religion. That word should not be applied to people who plot, plan, and organize their lives around a battle against religion. I'd say it's time for a new word to describe the atheists that Havel is speaking of. Ironically, it's the religious right that's given words like "atheist" and "humanist" their sinister cast. If they'd just stick to their kintting and stop trying to cram their social agendas down people's throats, most true atheists wouldn't have a problem.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 11:38 a.m.
On what basis do you claim that "Madalyn Murray O'Hair style of atheists" have no sense of awe and wonder about the world?
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 11:42 a.m.
I don't know what they feel in their hearts and minds; all I know is their actions. I fault them for their vendetta against religion. I'm not a religious person, but I don't consider religion my enemy, and I have plenty of awe and wonder about the world. I don't like opera, either, but I don't wage war on those who attend them.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 1:13 p.m.
Great! I wasn't looking for hearts and minds.
I am looking for actions. For manifestation. So what examples can you offer? I am genuinely curious.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 1:49 p.m.
It is precisely this "connection with the infinite and with eternity" that enabled us to live for so long in a manner contrary to the "laws" of nature.
The short-sightedness and self consciousness of civilization are caused by our supercilious idea that all this was made for us and that the gods would continuously provide for us regardless of how we take care of our environment.
If, indeed, this were an atheist civilization we would surely be more environmentally conscious since we would realize that this planet is our home and we have to take better care of it. Instead we've been ravaging it. We're in the middle of a period of mass extinction not seen since the fall of the dinosaurs and we're the ones causing it. We are one of many animals who call this planet home. We may very well be the ones to ruin it for everyone. The very notion of god enables the very behaviour that has brought us to this point. The gods go hand in hand with agriculture and the only interpretation of the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve that makes sense is that of the agricultural revolution. We invented the idea of gods to justify our culture of consumption.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 1:59 p.m.
In 1963, Lyndon Johnson became President of the United States after the untimely death of his predecessor, John Kennedy. Johnson set about an ambitious social agenda that he labeled the Great Society, which consisted of a wide range of measures including the War of Poverty, Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights, voting rights, public radio and television, Head Start, and others.
Despite the most comprehensive legislative agenda in the nation's history to address the needs of the poor and disadvantaged minorities, the final year of Johnson's presidency brought a great deal of social turmoil, including devastating race riots. This too was hard to understand. The Great Society was the culmination of the New Deal effort to solve social problems using the rational means of legislation aimed directly at those problems. The events of 1968 seemed to discredit the underlying assumption behind the policy: that social problems could be solved through legislation. The year 1968 began a 40+ year trend of more conservative politics that would be much more skeptical of the New Deal philosophy.
So, did the events of 1968 bring about an increased humility in the face of the complexity of the modern world and skepticism of using rational and scientific means of bettering society? Not really. The subsequent decades would bring new applications of economic principles, in the forms of deregulation, free trade, and supply side economics. These too were promised to the public as rational and scientific means of bettering society. Despite prognostications of the increasing postmodern orientation of the world, the habits of using reason to understand and control the world die hard.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 3:08 p.m.
In addition to what I mentioned in my original post, I'm talking about the types of frivolous lawsuits designed to get "In God We Trust" off our currency, or to prevent religious groups from using school facilities for private meetings, or to prevent municipalities from erecting Christmas trees. These slight transgressions against an absolutist reading of the establishment clause do real harm to no one and the people who bring these types of lawsuits give the non-religious a bad image in the eyes of the majority of their fellow citizens. It's petty and counter-productive.
Posted Wed, Oct 27, 3:54 p.m.
Ahhh. I think that you and I are talking about totally different issues.
Havel, Robinson et al claim that atheists don't have any sense of awe.
I think that they are wrong and their statement has no basis in reality.
That's one question. People of good intention may disagree.
But you are talking about whether atheism is "petty and counter-productive." That's an entirely separate question. You could well be correct but it has nothing to do with whether atheists have a sense of awe.
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 7:55 a.m.
What I'm saying is that the antitheists, those who rail against religion, are engaged in a battle that is frequently petty and counter-productive. I'm not sure if they have awe in anything other than their own ability to attract reporters like flies. I think this attitude is also reflected in the type of atheism Havel deplores.
I think that real atheists, those for whom religion just isn't a part of their lives, are perfectly capable of drawing inspiration from the natural world. Prime example: Carl Sagan. That guy had enough awe and wonder for a bushel basket full of people, even those who are very religious themselves.
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 9:54 a.m.
Well terrific!
It sounds as if you and I agree and that Havel and Robinson are mistaken.
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 10:07 a.m.
Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, just to name a few. Richard Dawkins, even (read his work carefully). Christopher Hitchens may not write of it often, but I'm sure this applies to him as well. I think Havel should have chosen a different word. He's talking about those who have no capability of thinking about things in the long-term, and in that sense, he's describing a great many people, including many who profess belief in a higher power. It's partially because of people's misunderstanding of atheism, I think, that an admitted atheist is extremely unlikely to become president in my lifetime. http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistbigotryprejudice/a/AtheistSurveys.htm
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 11:27 a.m.
Tony, this is your strangest effort to date. At points when I was reading, I was ROTFLMAO, as the kids say today.
To blame atheists for suburban sprawl is just bizarre. To generalize about atheists is a mistake, too, since the only thing they have in common is a non-belief in god.
dbreneman, I think your term, antitheist is incorrect--you want antireligionist. Antitheist implies a belief in god. Antireligionist is better, since the set you are talking about are just really pissed off at religion being forced on them by law or social convention.
I would also add Albert Einstein to the list of atheists with a sense of awe and infinity.
p.s. Tony, it would be fun if you would chime in with rebuttals!
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 12:05 p.m.
These people are to a certain extent parasites on the civilization that nurtured them, an idea that would, of course, never cross their minds.
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 1:48 p.m.
Well, it seems we are all agreeing today--how boring.
I wonder if something did get lost in the Havel translation. The globalism reference make sense to me, but I can't see where atheists play any part. Perhaps if we had lived through the soviet era in eastern Europe it would make sense, but I always thought the communists combated religion because it competed with the power of the state, not out of any theistic concerns.
We could come up with any number of counter examples to the Havel/Robinson article. Walmart has heavy fundamentalist christian heritage, and is arguably the most arrogant, pride-filled, globalistic, sprawl inducing, environment destroying entity on earth.
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 1:59 p.m.
This is a bit of a diversion, but interesting:
"While fundamentalist Jews, Christians, and Moslems are singularly attached to their literal interpretations of particular texts, fundamentalist consumerists are singularly attached to cheap stuff. All fundamentalists decry, deny, or ignore the multiple dimensions of life that fall outside their particular theologies and ideologies. Fundamentalist consumerists could not care less about workers' rights, human-scale business, environmental sanity, and -- as the surviving friends and family of Wal-Mart temporary maintenance worker Jdimytai Damour will attest -- human life."
Posted Thu, Oct 28, 9:58 p.m.
Thanks you Quinn for pointing the link to Havel's speech. It is definitely worth reading because not often do I see so much wisdom combined with hokum.
Of course I sympathize with Havel about the state of the built environment; who doesn't? Even people in the suburbs complain about the suburbs -- that's why they so often fight development. (But it's interesting that it had gotten so bad to think of Prague surrounded by strip-malls and big-box stores!)
But Havel is sadly uninformed of the environmental history of the past 150 years or so. To attribute "atheism" to the development of auto-oriented suburbs is preposterous. The idea that the suburbs are about atheism is risible. Just go look and see. Does one really think that the anti-city car-cultists around Seattle are atheists? I would surmise that you find a direct correlation between red suburbs of faith and suburbs of cars and you find the godless atheists most plentiful in the few real cities we have in the USA.
Even if Havel is referring to bad (i.e. auto-dominated) development = atheism (i.e. Stalinism) he has it wrong. Alternatively, I can cobble together a theory which links atheism, individualism, Calvin, cars and bad urban development. But it's a whole lot simpler than either Stalinism or Protestanism: auto-oriented development came about because people like cars and the freedom and personal autonomy which cars give them. Yet, we haven't been able to figure out how to humanely integrate the personal vehicle with settlements. It's a big subject but not complex and yet not easy as to solutions. It should only be so easy that better cities turns on belief in God.
I'd suggest to Havel a little more history, analysis and Occam's razor and a bit less Platonism.
Posted Fri, Oct 29, 11:38 a.m.
Fantastic comments!
It is true some atheists can be considered self-indulgent--I know I am. I really enjoy high-priced bourbon. A sip of a wee dram of Blanton's make me think it was touched by the hand of God.
Also, I hate anti-bacterial soap. I believe it is one of the most disgusting, dangerous, unnecessary products in the world, yet I am often forced to use it in public places and at friend's houses. I complain about it bitterly every chance I get. If you get it on your hands, the smell stays for days. Once some one "did me a favor" and washed my favorite coffee cup with it. I almost had to throw it away.
I love baseball, but I dislike the song "God Bless America", which we are sometime forced to endure during the 7th inning stretch. I dislike it not because of the God reference, but because of the line "Oceans white with foam".
My point? I am a self-indulgent complainer, but not because I am an atheist.
Posted Fri, Oct 29, 11:38 a.m.
I believe the discussion the author intends is one between those who believe that there is an Other - whether Divine or otherwise that is greater than themselves and those who see themselves, either individually or collectively as greater than all others. I believe this is the same trouble that the Biblical story of The Tower of Babel dealt with - A human attempt to "reach heaven" (read: take the place and role of God). I believe that the Icarus myth carries the same anti-hubris message. While Athiests are an easy target for such and example, I find no less of a transgression in the claim that "America the greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the Earth"
Posted Fri, Oct 29, 12:22 p.m.
Touché to your pun. You assume I am a "seeker" (whatever that is) vs an atheist. Putting aside what you mean by "seeker" the translation of my name "sucher" is German for "seeker" or "searcher" or maybe even " hunter?" ...very poetic and all that...for those who may not get it. Very funny, Quinn.
Nonetheless, my complaint about Havel -- as nice and interesting and amiable as he may be -- getting atheism involved with urban design just confuses issues and makes reasonable solutions more difficult. James Howard Kunstler makes the same terrible error -- that bad urban planning is a matter of morality. I wished that Havel had just let it be and noted the terrible state of our built environment. Now he has just diverted people who have little background with environmental history (our author Tony Robinson?) from practical work to trying to convert people. Occam is one of my heroes: just go at it to find the simplest answer. Alas Havel just confounds us with mention of the supernatural when largely he should be talking about is the location of the parking lot if he is concerned about urban planning.
Posted Fri, Oct 29, 3:56 p.m.
"I believe the discussion the author intends is one between those who believe that there is an Other - whether Divine or otherwise that is greater than themselves and those who see themselves, either individually or collectively as greater than all others."
Hit the nail on the head. This is the classic false dichotomy to which many regionists resort.
The other classic religionist fallacy is that there is less morality without religion, when in fact there is a reverse correlation between religiosity and morality. I believe this is the argument Havel (and Tony) are using--that if we had more "God", we would be more moral and, as a result, screw up the landscape less. In fact we have the mega church with its huge parking lots and auto centric design, a temple to reglionist consumerism and pride. Drive through, strip mall religion where the ATM is the prominent feature in the lobby.
Posted Sat, Oct 30, 11 p.m.
Quinn, most of us know it as The Good Soldier Schweik. The diacritical marks don't improve the literature, nor does their lack prevent us from its appreciation. If you're going to insist upon such proper stuff, then calling Europe the "Old World" isn't too cool.
DBreneman, protests of religious displays in governmental spaces aren't limited to atheists. Such displays are almost always Christian and as such represent a governmental endorsement of a particular religion.
Posted Sat, Oct 30, 11:13 p.m.
Havel has used the term "atheism" or "atheist" in a complex, nuanced way that the average American reader won't stop to give much thought to. He's a writer, a dramatist, a poet--and American politicians don't speak in a literary or poetic way. American political culture is linguistically fairly blunt, unidimensional, and unironic. Czech political culture, I suspect, is linguistically the opposite.
I wonder if the Czech word translated as "atheism" doesn't bring along a whole slough of nuances and baggage absent from the English word, while the English word has all kinds of nuances and baggage absent from the Czech word. Seems like that whole aspect of the discussion is missing.
Posted Sun, Oct 31, 8:05 a.m.
"Good intentions" are not enough in language -- you have to get the word right.
And Havel (or his translator) had the wrong term.
If he truly meant "atheism" then there is no historical basis to his claim.
Or if he meant something else, then we have missed the point.
But in no case is there any connection between quality of built environment and human sensitivity, "spirituality," humility much less a literal belief in G-d.
Posted Sun, Oct 31, 11:23 p.m.
I am a great fan of Prince Charles but he's intellectually wrong and politically unwise to raise issue of morality, spirituality and so forth. Why raise religion? All it produces is rancor.
In fact I was just thinking earlier today of Havel, Charles and Kiunstler as all getting it right about what is wrong but making the same mistake in how to solve the problem i.e. they bring religion, morality etc etc into the story and it's a non-starter.
Btw what do you mean by "repo."
Posted Mon, Nov 1, 12:51 p.m.
Look, Mr. Havel is an important man and obviously he influences people such as Mr. Robinso and he in turn influences others.
So of course ideally Havel would reconsider and publicly modify his views.
Posted Mon, Nov 1, 1:39 p.m.
I am more interested in why Tony chose this speech to highlight. Was it just a knee jerk reaction to an anti-atheist headline or was there something deeper? I had this same knee jerk reaction when I saw the "God Hates Figs" poster:
"Mark 11:12-14 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14Then he said to the tree, 'May no one ever eat fruit from you again.' And his disciples heard him say it."
Posted Tue, Nov 2, 11:59 p.m.
I appreciate all of the comments so far.I have followed Havel with great interest. At the rick of making the same mistake of rhetorical overreach when he blames "atheism" for so many world ills, i suggest that the actual moving force behind the problems he correctly identified is capitalism.
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Genesis of the entire face is generally performed in less than one hour. Because the procedure is quite comfortable, no anesthesia or medication is necessary.
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Patrick Dempsey is planning on moving his family to Britain, but he's delaying that decision until the economy in America gets better.
The hot Greys Anatomy actor says that he fell in love with the U.K. after vacationing there last summer and is planning on moving his family to a house in the English countryside.
He may just have to settle for a vacation property in the country until the dollar increases in value.
He says, "I would love to live here (Britain). But I think I will have to wait for the American dollar to get stronger. A vacation place would be perfect, but to bring my kids up here would be ideal."
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Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy: Q&A
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventative mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here's a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why.
AP Medical Writer
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventative mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here's a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why.
Q: What kind of surgery did Jolie have?
A: Jolie had a preventative double mastectomy, meaning she chose to have both her breasts removed even though she had not been diagnosed with cancer.
Q: Why did she have the mastectomies?
A: Jolie says that she has a "faulty" version of the BRCA1 gene that means she has an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer. By having both breasts removed preventatively, she said her breast cancer risk drops to 5 percent.
Q: What did the procedure involve?
A: In double mastectomies, surgeons typically remove as much breast tissue as possible. In Jolie's case, because she was having a reconstruction done shortly afterward, the doctors preserved the skin covering her breasts, inserting "fillers" where the breast tissue would have been, to keep the skin elastic. According to Jolie, she had implants put in nine weeks later.
Q: How many women have this faulty gene?
A: Only a small percentage of women have this same faulty gene, or a similar mutated version of a related gene, BRCA 2. These mutations are most commonly found in women of Eastern European Jewish descent; one study found 2.3 percent of women in that group had the mutations - about five times higher than in the general population. Other ethnic groups, including the Norwegian, Dutch and Icelandic people, also have slightly higher rates of these mutations.
Q: How do these genes increase a woman's risk of breast cancer?
A: The average woman has a 12 percent risk of developing breast cancer sometime during her life. In comparison, women who have inherited a faulty version of a breast cancer gene are about five times more likely to get breast cancer. In the U.S., about 5 to 10 percent of breast cancers are thought to be linked to harmful versions of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
Q: How can women find out if they have these gene mutations?
A: A genetic test using a blood test can usually detect these genes. In the U.S., there are no standard guidelines recommending women for BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic testing. The tests usually cost at least several hundred dollars.
Q: What other options might Jolie have had?
A: Doctors would likely have suggested earlier screening tests, including mammograms or MRIs, although those would only help them spot breast cancer earlier, not prevent it. They might also consider using breast cancer drugs preventively, though trials into their long-term use is still ongoing. "This is not a decision that people take lightly," said Dr. Emma Pennery, clinical director at the British charity, Breast Cancer Care. "You cannot decide to have a double mastectomy next week."


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Tuesday Morning Post: Pod Person edition {WoW}
May 12th 2009 6:19AM You're right - thanks for making me realise this, canceling my recurring payment now.
When AFK attacks {WoW}
Feb 10th 2009 2:14AM Woah - take that !!
When AFK attacks {WoW}
Feb 9th 2009 3:02AM A bit of a noob question (or maybe it's because I don't play a hunter) ... but what's the issue about the other hunter dropping flares at Rossi's Wife's feet.
Are we talking Hunter flares here, or engineering flares. Was he doing it simply to irritate, or is there some effect which occurs which would have made her live more difficult.
Again, pardon the noobishness here, but I fully need clarity on this before I fully appreciate the story (I'm guessing).
Percula reveals future of BLIND {WoW}
Jan 8th 2009 7:02AM This vid is seriously making me consider going back to Combat Swords ... I'm finding myself looking for all kinds of justifications for doing so ... truly awesome portrayal of a really fun class ... a million thumbs up.
Percula reveals future of BLIND {WoW}
Jan 8th 2009 7:00AM Heyy, that's exactly what I thought ... there seemed to be a bit more between them than one trying to kill the other ... notice the almost winsome final clash of swords as Mathias ran past her to save Prestor ... hardly seemed aggressive, almost like "Hi ... see ya later".
Mathias almost had a sense of regret about him while he watched her disappear into the forest ... Almost like "Wow, who WAS that girl ... I didn't even get her number".
Don't unlearn your blacksmithing weapon specialzation {WoW}
Dec 5th 2008 3:32AM Here's a thought ... you know blue has stated that the BoP specialisation weapons are a thing of the past ... perhaps they've gone a step further and removed the axe/sword/mace specialisation as well, seeing as (at this time) there is no real need for it in the end game.
There are 2 or 3 weapons at level 78 or so which simply require you to be weaponsmith, but absolutely nothing in game that requires a further specialisation (aside from the level 70 stuff, ofc)
Just a thought.
Anyway, as soon as I no longer have any need for my Bloodmoon (around level 75ish), I'm going armoursmith ... I'll still be able to craft the Titansteel Destroyer, but I'll have access to 3 pieces of Armoursmith armour, which are all pretty decent, which makes weaponsmithing pale in comparison (at this stage, at least)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Heavy {WoW}
Nov 21st 2008 4:14PM blegh, no editing FTL ... Add this onto the end :
I'll level my DK in the mean time ... and if it's not available by the time I get him to 80, I'll start with each of my other alts until Dual-Speccing DOES come out.
Now, for the DK ... blood or unholy ... aaargh ... I'm stuck in a vortex :-D
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Heavy {WoW}
Nov 21st 2008 4:11PM I can't do it ... I can't take prot over fury ... as much as my head is telling me to do it, half of my heart is crying out.
At the same time, he other half of my heart is yearning for prot, I gave it a go for about a week and loved it. So, I see myself spending 50g a level respeccing back and forth, because I'm not going to be able to decide.
It's for this reason that I'm going to wait until the dual-spec feature comes out ... I'll have prot and fury on hand then, and will switch between the 2 as and when it's needed (ofc, it's probably going to be reagent based or something, and the reagents cost 50g each ... typical ;-> )
Update your action bar mods or miss out on the fun {WoW}
Nov 18th 2008 2:47PM I try and use different ui styles. My most recent one involved using the standard action bars with a mod called StellarBars.
Pretty much the only thing StellarBars was beneficial for was that you could move the default action bars around ... was really nice - default bars, shifted off slightly to allow better space utilisation.
The rest was pretty much vanilla UI.
Then I couldn't understand how to do the "Grand Theft Palomino" quest for my DK. You have to steal a horse (easy enough, just right click), then deliver it. Only problem was, StellarBars did something that didn't allow the default vehicle UI to load ... so I was stuck. I disabled the addon .. and BAM - new action bar, problem solved.
I dislike the standard action bars, as they have those nasty space wasting gryphons and they're centred in the screen, causing the chat box to either be squashed, or to high up.
Loaded Dominos now ... I'll see how that goes
Titan's Grip hit penalty down to 5% {WoW}
Oct 22nd 2008 2:27PM You're full of it ... I was doing 75% of the DPS as Fury as opposed to arms .... and Arms is doing comparative damage to Ret Pallies ...
Fury needed a buff, pure and simple, anyone who didn't think so if speaking from pure emo, and not from evidence.


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Abu Mazen says that his idea to open the restaurant was not just for the Arabs, it was for the Europeans and other foreigners as well as the local Englishmen and women, to give them the flavour of Yemeni food.He tried over and over in different places to achieve his dream and never gave up the pursuit.
It was not until June 2005 that he opened his Queen of Sheba restaurant in the Paddington at the heart of Westminster. He decorated the restaurant with Yemeni artefacts, including antiques and pictures from Yemen. There is also an oven that serves fresh bread to customers and a small Arabic mafraj.
Abu Mazen said that he thanked God who helped him to bring that homely atmosphere to his restaurant.!
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If I have ever seen a more despicable and dangerous piece of garbage than Governor Quinn's "Kids Don't Have Lobbyists, Part 1" I do not recall it.
You weren not above corrupting little children to do your filthy work. It is demeaning to use them in this way, and how far is that from Child Abuse? His use of innocent children as your "Hit-Men" firing away at the backs of retired professors and teachers, lying by saying that their pensions are taking away from children's medical and other benefits, is below the lowest paint of unethical behavior. You are placing TARGETS on the backs of elderly retired educators. What lies and hypocrisy! It is akin to putting a HIT on educators. Why not simply ask some of those mass murderers if you can borrow their weapons to take out the educators? Or send the mass murderers to their homes or their hospitals.
You lied about the reason for the attacks on teachers with the incompetent Constitutional amendment, claiming that the voters wanted it, but as it turned out our prayers to St. Michael the Archangel, My Patron saint overturned your sickly plot and the voters defeated it. Now you take this Hitlerian approach of ignoring that failure on your part and are trying to humiliate the educators into what? Heart attacks, strokes? Is that what you wish upon them?
No teacher makes as much money as you do, why not cut your salary and end your pension? Aren't you certainly acting like one of the directors of Dachau or Auschwitz-Birkenau with teachers as the victims of your Illinois death camp attitude? You are certainly not acting like a follower of Jesus
The book of Hitler's The War Against the Jews will soon be joined by Quinn's War Against the Elderly Educators, which I am now working upon. Are you, sir, a coward? Are you are the new Judas, the new Robert Ford, the new John Wilkes Booth or the new Lee Harvey Oswald? Some people believe you are. Especially the democrats who make up, the vast majority of educators in Illinois. They call you, and I am cleaning this up, a "turncoat extraordinaire."
First thing the Nazi's did in Poland was murder the intellectuals, professors and scientists one by one. But you are trying to do them all at once. Congratulations for that company which you are now keeping with things like, "Whether the campaign's characters generate ridicule or praise does not concern the governor's office. Its goal is to get people talking about pension reform by whatever means possible, makes you sound like Adolph Hitler, "Any means possible?" How does the bishop view that? You apparently do not care what people answer, you are saying that you will only listen to the envious, the sickest of people.
You, like all cowards, picked upon the most vulnerable group: elderly people who when younger, studied hard and educated themselves, many of them were veterans in WW II and Viet Nam who have now come home to face Nazi like behavior in the State House? And here you are, beating up on defenseless seniors at the request of Tea Party Republican avarice generators. Well, professors don't give "donations" do they?
Why not open concentration camps? Why not because teachers will not be able to afford their homes if you take away their income. Then the teachers can face a death camp ending of their careers? They who contributed their own money, their hearts, their souls, their ethical view of life, now simply want to live out those lives. But for decades when the politicians stole their contributions by never honoring or contributing the state's share of a contract, a promise. You are nothing more than "Dead Beat Dad's" attacking and demonizing and refusing to pay those who are now elderly and most in need of peace and rest. The state has put people in jail for less and you make them victims, targets-TARGETS for Crazies!
One of my friends, a retired teacher who is 78 years old was shouted at by a young man who threatened him saying, that retired Professors are stealing from the children and do not deserve to live. Nice going Mr. Quinn.
Crazies with access to weapons will see you silly cartoon, idiotic-advertising slander of educators as just another tie with the philosophies of 1920's – 1940's in Germany, ganged up as an okay way to do away with elderly retirees. You think nothing of demeaning and ridiculing veterans and others who spent small fortunes educating themselves, who served as educators for decades. Some had successful careers and were recruited with, "We want the best and the brightest. Well educated people with professional career experience to teach in our college and while we cannot offer you what you are now making we can offer you a wonderful pension plan."
And this most unconscionable comment: "Whether the campaign's characters generate ridicule or praise does not concern the governor's office. Its goal is to get people talking about pension reform by whatever means possible, makes you sound like Adolph Hitler, Any means possible?" A lame attempt to make a sick film seem to be going your way, when it is not at all. 5.000 saw your site but the vast majority was roundly rejected making you look foolish.
You throw away our money on Republican projects and it is rumored that more money will be stolen to aid a poor billionaire in repairing Wrigley Field. But that, you think does not take money away from children. Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, at it lowest point, wouldn't you say? Judas Priest, Pharisee, get thee to a confessional! I do not recommend going to communion with this still in the works, sir. That would be a quick shot to Hell. By giving Sears and others billions of dollars as they blackmail you wasted cash on lotteries throwing $550,000 into one lottery. If you had saved that money by making reasonable lotteries and stopped giving it away and had contributed the pensions would be funded People have gone to jail for less than that. The problem is you know nothing about growing jobs. Are you and the judges going to give up your pensions and healthcare? Are you going to cut your salary and pensions as well as that of the House and Senate?
How do you sleep at night blindsiding people who should be respected? This is far worse than simply a sinful thing, it is akin to forcing retired people into a form of political genocide, by slowly driving teachers bankrupt.
Is that what you are willing to do to your own children Mr. Quinn? Or just the now grown children of others? Children? You know far less about them than do teachers. The children are the beneficiaries of the educator's knowledge. You are opening up a bag of rattlesnakes that will haunt you forever, even into Hell.
If any educator is attacked physically as result of these slanders you have fired at their backs, I will be the first to contribute heavily for his/her lawsuit against you and your staff and the addlebrained persons who wrote your sick uninspired and misguided slop, and the ignoble use of children in a disgusting conspiracy attempting to intentionally agitating people to violence, shouting fire in a crowded theatre by targeting intellectuals for target practice for crazies, just as they did in Germany in the 1920's through 1940's. That is not the brand of Catholicism I taught a Bishop Quarters, St. Patrick's Academy and Fenwick High and more in college and graduate school. I would hate to have to explain that behavior to My Holy Father on Judgment Day!


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Groups file lawsuit over white-tailed prairie dog
Thursday, February 7, 2013
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Four conservation groups based in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana have filed a lawsuit seeking to compel federal officials to address the white-tailed prairie dog population.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said the species doesn't warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, but the groups disagree.
The groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Montana alleging the agency didn't adequately everything it should have as required by federal law before making its determination.
The white-tailed prairie dog is found in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana. Federal wildlife officials said in 2010 that the species' population hadn't substantially changed and that the white-tailed prairie dog didn't face significant threats from urbanization or energy development.
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