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TabTimes will be flying to Las Vegas, and we'll be covering all the major products, news, stories, and more right from the show floor itself. Here are the 12 biggest trends we think will come under the spotlight at CES 2012:
1. Expect loads of (better) budget Android tablets
Last year was dominated by a plethora of low-end Android tablets running phone-optimized operating systems and with fairly uninspiring interfaces. That will change this year.
Expect to see a raft of Honeycomb tablets, and some Ice Cream Sandwich models, all of which should run faster and be easier to navigate than the models at last year's show. Another plus is that these models should be priced in the $300 range.
2. Windows 8 prototype tablets
It's unlikely that we'll see a plethora of Win8 tablets, but we expect to see a few. Unfortunately, you'll probably need to collar a product manager for a preview.
This said, Steve Ballmer's last CES keynote could and should also bear some interesting news on Windows 8 developments. Prior to release, this will be one of the last big opportunities to measure the pulse of Microsoft's new OS.
3. Apple won't be there, but will be at CES in spirit
Forget the fact that Apple itself won't be attending the show; it will still cast a long shadown on the proceedings. The company will dominate the accessory category in the same way it did last year. And to some degree, every manufacturer is playing off (and emulating) the iPad and iPhone.
4. New tablets to watch out for at CES
We're going to see and hear about a seemingly infinite number of new tablets including a host of second-generation devices. Most tablet manufacturers have been fairly quiet on new launches ahead of CES, but there are a few tablets are already expected to tip up at the show in Las Vegas:
- Asus plans to launch a 7-inch model, maybe a revised Eee Pad Memo, according to reports.
- Acer looks set to announce the A200 and A700 tablets, two 10-inch Android 4.0 slates running Nvidia's Tegra 3 quad processor.
- Coby will introduce five Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) tablets at CES. If you're a fan of tablets, but on a budget, the Coby booth is definitely one to check-out.
- German manufacturer Kupa will bring a Windows 7 tablet to CES. The 10-inch X11 will be shown in the "Access To Go" section of CES.
5. Welcome, Ice Cream Sandwich
The main difference in tablets this year is that the majority of Android tablets on show will now run tablet-optimized software, whether that be that Honeycomb (Android 3.0) or Google's latest release, Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0).
Several manufacturers have already committed to the new platform, so expect to see and hear plenty of news on new ICS tablets and the features they will bring.
6. Increased enterprise presence
Based on the appointment requests we've received, it's clear that product manufacturers are taking CES's suble embrace of enterprise-oriented companies and products to heart. It's highly likely you'll hear a greatly increased quantity of enterprise-focused news and product coverage this year.
7. Even more mobile apps
As always, there are bound to be a number of small and start-up companies offering a range of consumer mobile applications, both for iOS and Android.
CES organizers clearly looked to move with this trend last year, hosting a 'Mobile Apps Showdown' event, which is on again this year at the Las Vegas Convention Center on 12th January. App developers will be given two-minutes to demo their product, with an 'applause-o-meter' judging the winners. It's a little bit of a gimmick and it is the last day of the show, but may still yield some interesting results.
8. Watch out for hi-res & OLED tablet displays
Tablet manufacturers are shifting their gaze to hi-res and OLED displays. In particular, keep your eyes peeled for any 2560 x 1500 resolution displays, as already 'promised' by Apple (according to reports) and made by arch-rival Samsung.
OLED displays will also have a part to play, especially in the handset arena, but also for large-screen TVs. LG Electronics has already committed to showing a 55" OLED TV and 84" 4K television.
9. New form factors & features will emerge
Although highly unlikely to be in production, we may find some prototype tablets in interesting new shapes and sizes, or with previously unheard of new features. We won't be surprised to see 3D support, and embedded pico projectors in at least a few tabs.
We're also interested in the reception Nintendo's new Wii U gaming system, which utilizes a tablet as both a controller and a sensor, will receive.
10. UltraBooks: The tablet's bigger, stronger brother or a serious rival?
At CES Unveiled, the CEA's Shawn DuBravac said that as many as 50 UltraBooks may be launched at CES. Intel is backing the UltraBook, but one big question is whether UltraBooks compliment or compete with tablets.
There's considerable tension around this, and there's no clear consensus on the results. While some manufacturers have claimed that the two will co-exist, Digitimes says that an increasing number of tablet makers are actually shifting production from tablets to UltraBooks for higher margins.
11. RIM's game face
The stakes are high for Research in Motion. Between the company's beleagured line of phones and the PlayBook's lack of results, it's going to be a tough, critical show. The real question is what kind of public face company executives put on. We're way past spin, but the manner in which RIM's leadership confronts the criticism that is surely coming will be interesting.
12. Microsoft bids farewell, can CES survive? (Yes)
Microsoft says that its CES 2012 keynote and booth attendance will be its last, with the company planning to drop out of CES next year. Microsoft says that its own Build conferences are more valuable and more meaningful for promoting its own goods.
This is a big test for the organizers of CES, who must worry if other major brands have been thinking the same thing. There are however, a couple of things in the show's favour. First of all, huge events have survived brand fall-outs before, notably when Apple decided it had had enough of MacWorld in 2008. Second, CES is absolutely huge. The show keeps getting bigger, and with everything from kitchenware to car audio, it's far more than a PC-oriented collection.
Just for some background, 1.6 million net square feet exhibit space will be taken up and over 140,000 attendees will attend CES 2012, according to internal estimates.


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KING 5 recently covered Swedish Medical Center's new Intuitive da Vinci robot. Swedish surgeon Dr. James Porter was interviewed about the robot and the first patient in Washington to be operated on with the robot. Watch the video here.
'About Swedish' posts
Swedish Cherry Hill Named Top Hospital for Heart Surgery
In its first ever rating of hospitals for heart surgery, Consumer Reports has identified Swedish/Cherry Hill as one of the top hospitals in the country for heart surgery. The publication, using data from the independent Society of Thoracic Surgeons, surveyed 400 hospitals and gave Swedish Cherry Hill 'Above Average' ratings (the highest possible) for aortic valve replacement and cardiac bypass surgery.
Swedish Cherry Hill was the only hospital in Washington State to receive such a rating by Consumer Reports.KOMO TV recently profiled the report and interviewed Swedish's Glenn Barnhart, M.D., chief of cardiac surgery. See the news story here.
Swedish physicians recognized as 'Top Docs' in Seattle magazine
Seattle magazine has named 52 Swedish employed or credentialed physicians as 'Top Docs' in its July issue available now on newsstands. Most notably, Marquis Hart, M.D., director of the Swedish Transplant Program, appears on the magazine's cover. Also noteworthy, the edition profiles Jim Walsh, M.D., medical director of the Swedish Addition Recovery Services at Swedish Ballard hospital.
Below is a full list of all Swedish affiliatEd physicians named as a Top Doc. Congratulations to all:
Two Swedish Emergency Departments Recognized with National Nursing Award
Ballard, Edmonds hospitals among 17 nationwide honored with 2014 Lantern Award
News ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Clay Holtzman, Swedish, 206-386-2748, firstname.lastname@example.com
SEATTLE — June, 17, 2014 — Emergency departments at Swedish Ballard and Swedish Edmonds hospitals are among only 17 hospitals nationwide to be honored with the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) 2014 Lantern Award. Swedish was the only hospital system in Washington State recognized with a 2014 Lantern Awards.
The Lantern Award recognizes an emergency department's commitment to quality, safety, a healthy work environment and innovation in nursing practice and emergency care. Achievement of the Lantern Award indicates that an emergency department (ED) exemplifies outstanding and exemplary performance in the core areas of leadership, practice, education, advocacy and research.
American Cancer Society, Swedish Partner to Promote Relays For Life, Health and Cancer Awareness
Relay for Life events planned for Ballard, Edmonds, Issaquah, Mill Creek, Redmond communities in May, June and August
Media AlertFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Clay Holtzman, Swedish, 206-386-2748, firstname.lastname@example.com
Kimberly Dinsdale, American Cancer Society, 206-674-4150, email@example.com
The Washington Chapter of the American Cancer Society and Swedish Health Services are partnering to organize Relay for Life events in the Ballard, Edmonds, Issaquah, Mill Creek and Redmond communities. Each Relay for Life event will feature hundreds of cancer survivors, supporters and advocates working together to raise awareness and funding for cancer research.
Relay For Life began in 1985, in Tacoma with a local colorectal surgeon, Dr. Gordy Klatt, who walked and ran around a track for 24 hours and raised $27,000 for the American Cancer Society. This year, Relay For Life will take place in nearly 6,000 communities in the United States and 21 other countries and will raise funds to support the Society's mission of saving lives by helping people stay well, by helping people get well, by finding cures and fighting back.
Media will have access to film/interview Relay participants, learn more about the latest efforts to battle cancer and more.
- Edmonds, Issaquah and Mill Creek - Saturday, May 31at 12 p.m.
- Redmond - Saturday, June 7 at 12 p.m.
- Ballard - August date to be announced
Becker's Hospital Review names Swedish/Cherry Hill a Top 100 Hospital for Patient Engagement
Swedish highest ranked Washington state hospital in the 2014 Patient Engagement Ranking
SEATTLE — May 15, 2014 — Swedish Medical Center announced today its Cherry Hill campus was named a Top 100 Hospital in the inaugural National Patient Engagement Ranking by Becker's Hospital Review and Axial Exchange. With a score of 78.7 out of 100, Swedish/Cherry Hill was the highest ranked among three Washington state hospitals recognized on the Top 100 list.
National rankings evaluated more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals. Scores were based on publicly available data such as readmissions and patient satisfaction as well as tools and resources available to help patients better manage their health. For example, social media interaction and online support, including health records and mobile/tablet/desktop tools were reviewed. More details on the rankings and methodology can be found here.
Becker's Hospital Review and Axial Exchange announced the results for the 100 Top Hospitals for Patient Engagement at the Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 15-17.
Swedish is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit health provider in the Pacific Northwest, providing its communities with the highest quality patient-centered care for more than a century.
Ballard News Tribune covers the Swedish Cancer Institute's Personalized Medicine Program
The Swedish Cancer Institute Executive Director Thomas Brown, M.D., recently spoke with the Ballard News Tribune about the launch of SCI's Personalized Medicine Program and what it means for patients in the local community.
Read the Ballard News Tribune story with Dr. Brown here.


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Multi-factor authentication is a popular option, especially with software tokens such as Verisign ID Protection (VIP). Many SaaS vendors also provide SAML-based integration with IAM platforms including CA SiteMinder, IBM Tivoli Access Manager, and Oracle Access Manager. And OAuth-based federation is quickly catching on for enterprise use.
At the very minimum, use your API micro-perimeter to protect the API keys used to authenticate applications calling SaaS APIs. Avoid the unsecure and non-scalable practice of distributing keys that can be hard-coded into applications; instead, consider using a DMZ-based solution (commonly referred to as an API gateway or cloud service broker) to securely manage and store the API keys and broker the authentication of on-premise applications to SaaS.
These technologies can also monitor data traffic going to the cloud in order to block, mask, or encrypt sensitive data.
Learn more here.


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How to build a simple five file usb drive that copy's current user's favorites, pictures, and video folders to the thumb drive automatically and silently when inserted. Can also be customized for other files that need to be copied.
Step 1: Materials needed
Flash/thumb drive 8gb-- $25.00.
computer to write files on.
someone to try out thumb drive on.
Just a note, you can use any size thumb drive I used 8gb it was on sale when I bought it. Also the more space you have on the drive the better... just incase the target computer has LOTS of files you will have the space to copy to.
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Hey everyone I am having issues. I am trying to sync files from one folder to another when they plug in the USB drive. I have a .bat file that correctly syncs the folders. I have an autorun that changes the name of the drive and the icon. However, I can not get the autorun to run the .bat file. Any Ideas?
This is a problem that Windows Bill Gates himself discovered so he disabled autorun there fore stopping it froms starting pprograms other than from the computer and also this was only stoped from xp onwards and xp soo yeah...
Good luck
P.S for your trying to do this on an windows XP computer it will work unless they have trend micro office securiy it blocks all auto run features from outr side of the computer
Thanks for the information made one, great for backups without having to click on a bunch of things. I did have to click on the autolaunch to execute but one button is a lot less thanks.
yes you could But You wold probs need a hars disk instead of a usb because It would be like 200G or more
Hi, I'd like to use this for backing up User profiles, and documents at my company and then later on restore that info onto their new computers. Is there anyway to make it so the backup folder automatically gets renamed to the User Profile's name?
So, I may backup multiple computers first and then later on know which documents belong to that particular user.
~~~~taskkill /im cmd.exe~~~~
just put that in a .bat file and you are good to go.
Sorry if that sounds "negative" but a well-worded instruction would go very far in helping people to understand your process.
Can't wait to give this a try!
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False
make sure 1 one space between & and WScript...
Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) &"*BatchPathHere*" & Chr(34), 0 Set WinScriptHost = Nothing
- just because it may not work on other computers, - as well as mine
well.. im srry 2 say but microsoft has disabled the autorun ability for usb in windows 7..as precaution since most malware come from usb. Soo if u wanna make it work its gotta be on windows 2000, xp, or vista(who uses 2000 anymore???)..and frankly there's nuthin u can do 2 change the autorun ability so you'll have to click on the launch.bat file if u wanna make this work..
can u plz help??
i do as u told and it work properly except that i have to click on launch.bat file to start copy. what is the problem and what should i do?
Thanks again
This will still work by running the Launch.bat directly, but a silent autorunner is no longer possible on most PCs (for obvious reasons...like this one)
+Write (and compile) a C file that runs your batch file's commands invisibly
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
int main()
return (0);
+Write a VBS file that runs that compiled C program (now a shiny .EXE file)
Set objSh = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objSh.ShellExecute "example-exe-file", "" , "", "", 0
Now make sure they are all in the same directory, unless you want to get more complicated with your code. To start the invisible batch file, run the VBS file.
This works because the VBS file can start a program invisibly, but it can only do this to executables (.EXEs). This doesn't include batch files (.BAT). However, the compiled C file is in fact executable. So the VBS runs the C, which runs the Batch as its own commands (that is to say, invisibly).
For more help, just comment.
By the way, I was about to write an instructable on that, but now I dont think it's necassary.
it just keeps getting in the way.
its really great subject but i just want to ask if want to copy the jpg files
but from the whole hard drive
not only form the C drive
i mean form the drive D,E,F..... etc
what should i write
and thanks alot
":: variables" ?
"/min" '/min' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
"SET odrive=%odrive:~0,2%" I'm sure this has a use, but I can't figure out what it is.
And lastly, you only need "@Echo off" at the beginning of the batch.
Still a really cool idea though :)
copied from cmd help itself states:
would expand the PATH environment variable, and then use only the 5
characters that begin at the 11th (offset 10) character of the expanded
result. If the length is not specified, then it defaults to the
remainder of the variable value. If either number (offset or length) is
negative, then the number used is the length of the environment variable
value added to the offset or length specified.
would extract the last 10 characters of the PATH variable.
would extract all but the last 2 characters of the PATH variable.
so what it is saying is............, sets the variable odrive to %odrive:~0,2%
now, %odrive:~0,2% states that the variable odrive gets expanded, and only the first 2 characters that begin at the 1st would be set to the variable odrive.
which in turn would be the drive and the colon.
such as
and so on and so forth.
and finally, the @echo off just keeps cmd from telling you where it was started from. which is usefull if you see it happening. but thanks to the invisible.vbs, it doesn't get viewed since its a process.
works great with this:
use bat to exe found here:
to convert the batch file to an exe file. You can even include your own icon and set it to run silently. place the generated .exe and the ini file for u3-autorun and profit in education!
I have been able to get this to work just by going into the flash drive once its inserted and double clicking on the File.bat.
Also, If anyone could help me out with an install script for a separate program to be run simotaneously from this one on the same flash drive. Thanks a ton.
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Velocity's Americarna wraps up season 1 this Tuesday, March 18th with an episode dedicated to America's sports car, the Corvette. NASCAR team owner and avid Corvette collector Rick Hendrick will guest host this week's show while country music superstar Brad Paisley also makes an appearance. This week we even get to see inside Hendrick's massive car museum.
A new original TV series called "Corvette Nation" will be making its debut Friday night at 7pm ET on Discovery's Velocity channel. The 13-episode series dedicated to America's favorite sports car will feature all sorts of events, people and of course the car that we love so much.
The first episode was shot during the Bloomington Gold Corvette show this past June so if you were there, make sure you tune in.
West Coast Customs kicked off season two of their show on the new Velocity network with a project built around a custom 1958 Corvette for the Black Eye Peas' Will.I.Am. If you missed it, you're not alone, but the good news is that after consulting my TV guide, it looks like the final episode of this project will be shown on Sunday at 8:00 pm EST. You'll want to set your DVRs now because this looks like a really cool project.


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Sometimes the best workout is a home workout, and a pull up bar can be just what you might need. There are many different exercises to perform on a pull up bar, working not only your arms, shoulders and chest but also your abdominal, gluteal and leg muscles. Combine these chin up exercises with sit ups, push ups and some cardio activity and you have the perfect routine to fit into a fixed budget or use when traveling.
Before doing anything on a pull up bar, it is imperative to make sure you do not swing your body. Keeping in a fixed position during each exercise engages your surrounding stabilizer muscles, working them out as well. Swinging can cause injury.
1. Curl Grab
This is the classic chin up position of holding the bar from the opposite side with palms facing you.
2. Front Grab
This chin up position is exactly what it says, grabbing the bar in the front with forward facing palms. It is much more difficult than the curl grab and can be harder on the wrists.
3. The Monkey
It is just like hanging from a tree limb by one arm. This exercise strengthens the arm, shoulder and most of all, your stamina. 45 seconds is a good first attempt, but try and make five minutes. You will be surprised at how difficult this is. Set your goal and hang like a monkey, then switch arms and do it again. Note: Before releasing from this position, switch to the opposite arm and shake out the fatigued arm.
4. Crunch Bar
Front grab the bar, hang and then lift the knees and hold to one side for a five count. Hang and repeat to the other side.
5. The Olympic
Front grab the bar, hang, lift the knees to your belly and then slowly extend them straight out in front of you and hold for a five count.
6. On Arm Lift
Front or curl grab the bar, hang, wrap the other hand firmly around the hanging wrist and pull into a chin-up. Be sure and stabilize the wrist and not pull. The pulling should only be done by the hand on the bar.
7. Negatives
This is creating resistance opposite of the intended exercise. For example, if you do a chin up, try a chin down. Go extra slow on the way down from the chin up and really give your stabilizing muscles a wake up call. Negatives can be applied to any of the chin up exercises.
8. Inversion
Hanging upside down offers a unique workout, plus it may boost your metabolism and slow the aging process. A good pair of inversion boots will allow you to attach yourself to your chin up bar and hang upside down where you can do sit ups, leg strengthening or simply read a book while stimulating blood flow and gently elongating your spine and other joints. Check with your doctor before hanging upside down, and always have someone within helping distance in case of an emergency.
- Do not swing
- Do not jerk your body, especially your neck
- Always have someone nearby
- Breathe in your nose and out your mouth


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[1505] Prospective Assessment of C4d Deposits on Circulating Cells, Glomeruli, and Peritubular Capillaries in Lupus Nephritis (LN)
I Batal, S Bastacky, KV Liang, LP Kiss, T McHale, NL Wilson, B Paul, A Lertratanakul, JM Ahearn, SM Manzi, AH Kao. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background: Classical complement activation plays a key role in the pathogenesis of LN. Studies have suggested an association between C4d deposition in native renal tissue and LN severity. Cell-bound complement activation products have not been systematically studied in LN. We aimed to compare the C4d deposition on circulating cells and renal tissues between LN and non-systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE) renal disease controls and to determine the association of C4d deposition with LN class and disease activity.
Design: We prospectively evaluated 13 LN and 7 non-SLE renal control subjects who underwent renal biopsy. Concurrent C4d levels on circulating erythrocytes and platelets (EC4d, PC4d) were measured by flow cytometry. The distribution of immunoperoxidase C4d on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded renal biopsy tissues was semiquantitatively assessed (0-3; negative to diffuse) in peritubular capillaries (PTC) and glomeruli [GBM and/or mesangium]. LN histologic class, and activity (AI) and chronicity (CI) indices were assessed using the 2004 ISN/RPS classification and the NIH scoring systems, respectively.
Results: Six LN subjects (46%) had class IV [IV(S) (3) and IV(G) (3)]; the remainder had classes II (15%), III (23%) and/or V (38%). Median AI and CI were 6 and 2, respectively. Median EC4d levels of LN subjects were higher compared to controls (19.2 vs. 7.0, p=0.03). PC4d was detected in 6/13 (46%) LN subjects vs. 0/7 (0%) controls (p=0.05). EC4d level significantly correlated with LN AI (r=0.67, p=0.01). Furthermore, subjects with class IV LN had higher median EC4d levels compared to other classes (33.2 vs. 16.2, p=0.046). In renal tissues, mean glomerular C4d score was higher in LN (2.3+/-1.2) compared to controls (1.3+/-1.1, p=0.03), while PTC C4d score showed no significant difference. This C4d staining was associated with glomerular immune complex deposits. Neither glomerular nor PTC C4d score correlated with LN class or AI. Neither glomerular nor extraglomerular immune complex deposits correlated with EC4d levels.
Conclusions: This pilot study revealed that circulating cell and glomerular C4d levels were significantly higher in LN subjects compared to the non-SLE renal controls. In contrast to glomerular and PTC C4d, EC4d levels significantly correlated with LN disease activity. These findings suggest a potential role of C4d on circulating cells as a biomarker for LN.
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Poster Session I Stowell-Orbison/Surgical Pathology/Autopsy Awards Poster Session # 205, Monday Morning


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Calmly angry.
The New York Times answers another call for help and pretends to do some scolding yesterday.
"Amid Assurances on Ebola, Obama is said to Seethe"
A message sent out to the faithful. The President is angry, his people have let him down, though we're certainly not going to name names, or call for heads to roll. To rip off the Saturday Night Live gag about Bush 41 "That wouldn't be prudent" .
How refreshing. Instead of the traditional, worn out, unacceptable story that 'he found out from the news and he's angry!' that has played over and over for the last 6 years, they have a new plan. Let the news tell us how angry he is. Why, he even cancelled (a fund raiser) his schedule on Wednesday to deal with this! Big Fat Hairy Deal. He was golfing on his 200th round of golf a mere 5 days ago. So, now we're supposed to be impressed that 3 days ago he cancelled a fund raiser?
5 days ago, he could golf, but 3 days ago he suddenly realized how very very serious this whole Ebola thing was, and he had to have a meeting and we're supposed to understand he was angry in that meeting.
"It's not tight," a visibly angry Mr. Obama said of the response, according to people briefed on the meeting…He was not satisfied with the response," a senior official said."
He was angry, but not panicked, is that clear? Because he's No Drama Obama.
It's almost as if once again all of this comes as a surprise though. Nearly a month since Thomas Eric Duncan entered the United States after the difficult task of lying on his documentation in Liberia about his contact with an Ebola infected individual there. That was our safe guard, forms, and thermometers. Oh, and a reliance on honesty. This administration in particular should know how foolish THAT is.
Our President is angry, but apparently, he's unable, as the holder of the most powerful office in the world, to do anything about this, aside, that is, from being angry and acting calm while being angry and demanding answers and that it be 'tight'.
At the meeting on Wednesday, officials said, Mr. Obama placed much of the blame on the C.D.C., which provided shifting information about which threat category patients were in, and did not adequately train doctors and nurses at hospitals with Ebola cases on the proper protective procedures.
Notice, no names named, no one fired, or resigned, or reassigned, or given a transfer, or even put on extended leave pending investigation. It was, most probably, 2 interns in Cincinnati that caused all this, or perhaps spontaneous rioters reacting to an Ebola video on Youtube.
Ah, Obama theater.
Now then, how are to fix this problem? It's been nearly a month since his assurance that Ebola would be unlikely to ever reach our shores and two weeks since his assurance that Ebola wouldn't gain a foot hold here.
We must first understand he is alert in this time of crisis! There are many other things they must deal with you understand, because this is practically like a job, this task of having to run the most powerful nation in the world! If we make too much of this the ignorant populace might panic! Now he's wracked, torn, possibly in turmoil. How to handle this, and still preserve his option to play a round of golf on Sunday without looking like he doesn't give a rat's back side.
Times to the rescue! We discover the White House had a kabuki meeting, details and quotes from which just happen to be printed on the pages of the New York Times.
The answer ladies and gentlemen…
is to appoint a political hack lawyer to be the new Ebola Czar.
This is a move surely designed to instill confidence and give the nation a sense that someone who knows what they're doing is NOW going to take the reigns and master this runaway virus.
"On Friday, Mr. Obama took a step to both fix that response and reassure the public, naming Ron Klain, a former aide to Vice President Joseph R. Biden, to coordinate the government's efforts on Ebola.
We're appointing a lawyer to manage what the certified medical professional head of the CDC ( who's very sorry about all these mistakes and inconveniences you know) could not.
"Part of the challenge is to be assertive, to be in command, and yet not feed a kind of panic that could easily evolve here," said David Axelrod, a close adviser to the president in his first term. "It's not enough to doggedly and persistently push for answers in meetings. You have to be seen doggedly and persistently pushing for answers."
At this point I trust everyone has the sense of what the White House (I originally typed that as White Hose, and perhaps that's not incorrect) thinks of the American public. The most powerful job in the country, probably the world, and his job is to push for answers.
Not to take action on THIS issue….no, push doggedly for answers. Pretend this is the one thing in the world, of all the other things he pretends to be master of, pretend in this case he's at a loss about how to handle it. Even though the protocols have been in place for years, the methods of isolation for years, the disease itself, known for decades, the historical methods of quarantine known for centuries. Pretend on THIS one, they're just all kinda stumped, but are fiercely pushing for answers.
Push for answers! Not take action.
After all, if you're going to take action, for heaven sake do it by granting executive amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Do it by letting the executive agencies under your command investigate, harass and if possible destroy your political enemies. Do it by running guns to Mexico, do it by stonewalling valid Freedom of Information Act requests into various government activities. Do it by allowing the IRS to destroy documentation without so much as an angry sniff. Take action by banning flights to Tel Aviv when a mortar round hits too close to the airport. Take action by sending DOJ investigators around to see if Civil Rights have been violated only in hot button cases. Push for action by sending representatives from the White House to funerals of thugs when you can't be bothered to send them to the funeral of Maj. General Harold J. Greene, or even a representative of the Administration to the funeral of a well respected ally leader like Margaret Thatcher.
Lord knows, let the planes continue to fly out of West Africa directly to the US. Don't fire the head of the CDC or quietly and politely demand he resign so he can spend time with his goldfish or kids, or brush up on methodologies for handling communicable diseases like Ebola. Take action by appointing a lawyer to head up a medical crisis. That will certainly bring an air of calm to this whole sorry mess.
It's a durned good thing most Americans, and almost all of the people I see around me in Dallas are NOT panicking, and I continue to pray that no crisis that demands a yes/no, go/no-go NOW, "you have less than 2 hours to make a decision Mr. President", EVER presents itself. Because if that happens, the New York Times may not be around to write an excuse ridden story about how calm but angry the President is 4 weeks later.
Meanwhile, if the President wants a course on calm un-panicked anger, he should come to Dallas. There are plenty of instructors available right now.
Well, now that didn't take long did it. I missed it by a day….And you wondered why he was so suddenly wanting to look concerned about Ebola. Valerie must have told him, no Ebola solution, no golf!
Defining the alarmist problem
While doing a review of Rupert Darwall's book "The Age of Global Warming", Charles Moore does an excellent job of succinctly identifying the alarmist movement's core origins and core identity:
The origins of warmism lie in a cocktail of ideas which includes anti-industrial nature worship, post-colonial guilt, a post-Enlightenment belief in scientists as a new priesthood of the truth, a hatred of population growth, a revulsion against the widespread increase in wealth and a belief in world government. It involves a fondness for predicting that energy supplies won't last much longer (as early as 1909, the US National Conservation Commission reported to Congress that America's natural gas would be gone in 25 years and its oil by the middle of the century), protest movements which involve dressing up and disappearing into woods (the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, the Mosleyite Blackshirts who believed in reafforestation) and a dislike of the human race (The Club of Rome's work Mankind at the Turning-Point said: "The world has cancer and the cancer is man.").
These beliefs began to take organised, international, political form in the 1970s. One of the greatest problems, however, was that the ecologists' attacks on economic growth were unwelcome to the nations they most idolised – the poor ones. The eternal Green paradox is that the concept of the simple, natural life appeals only to countries with tons of money. By a brilliant stroke, the founding fathers developed the concept of "sustainable development". This meant that poor countries would not have to restrain their own growth, but could force restraint upon the rich ones. This formula was propagated at the first global environmental conference in Stockholm in 1972.
Indeed, the resulting grouping was a natural one. Eco radicals out to 'save the world' from evil capitalism (and man) and poor countries looking for a way to extort billions from rich countries without having to do anything of note to help themselves.
The G7 Summit in Toronto in 1988 endorsed the theory of global warming. In the same year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up. The capture of the world's elites was under way. Its high point was the Kyoto Summit in 1998, which enabled the entire world to yell at the United States for not signing up, while also exempting developing nations, such as China and India, from its rigours.
The final push, brilliantly described here by Darwall, was the Copenhagen Summit of 2009. Before it, a desperate Gordon Brown warned of "50 days to avoid catastrophe", but the "catastrophe" came all the same. The warmists' idea was that the global fight against carbon emissions would work only if the whole world signed up to it. Despite being ordered to by President Obama, who had just collected his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the developing countries refused. The Left-wing dream that what used to be called the Third World would finally be emancipated from Western power had come true. The developing countries were perfectly happy for the West to have "the green crap", but not to have it themselves. The Western goody-goodies were hoist by their own petard.
The UN was the natural forum for this push and the IPCC, headed by an railway engineer, the natural "scientific" instrument. We know how that story has turned out to this point. No global warming registered for 17 years and 6 months despite all the dire, but apparently scientifically groundless, predictions. The irony, of course, is it is those who have been skeptical of all of this are the one's called "deniers". And the alarmists have become so bankrupt and shrill that some of them are calling for the arrest of "deniers." One supposes since the alarmist cause most closely resembles a religious cult, the call for arrest is on the grounds of heresy … or something.
Meanwhile, "green energy" – the eco radical solution to all – continues to not be ready for prime time, while fossil fuel becomes cheaper and more plentiful.
Yet somehow, the so-called "elites" have decided – based on what, one isn't sure – that the threat to the globe is real. More irony. On the one hand, the eco radicals don't care at all if it costs lives since they've been convinced for decades that it is man that's the problem. Less of us is a "good thing" in their world. On the other hand you have the elites, aka, politicians, who see an opportunity to both expand government power and create revenue literally out of thin air. The fight is over who will get the money.
Meanwhile the reputation of science – real science – will suffer because of this very political cause and the actions of some scientists to serve it.
Scientists, Rupert Darwall complains, have been too ready to embrace the "subjectivity" of the future, and too often have a "cultural aversion to learning from the past".
And that is a complete disservice to science. Given all of that, who are the real deniers here?
Why does anyone still take Al Gore seriously?
That's a legitimate question. The man makes it up as he goes. The latest evidence is his invention of a new category for hurricanes (which is right up there with his invention of the internet for veracity). Yes, friends, his claim came during an "interview" (here, see if you can hit these softballs, Al) by Ezra Klein. In it, he likened "deniers" to slave owners, racists and just about any other bit of nonsense he could muster.
A Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) expert says Al Gore goofed during his widely circulated Washington Post interview on global warming. Gore, noting stronger storms fueled by climate change, told the paper "the hurricane scale used to be 1-5, and now they're adding a 6."
I'm sorry, that's more than a goof. It's a lie. It is simply not true. Period. It never has been true, no have there been any plans to add such a category by the one place that would do it:
"There are no plans by the National Hurricane Center, the federal office responsible for categorizing storms, to create a new category," she wrote on the environmental group's website.
There there was this as well (James Taranto covers it):
Gore uses the interview to claim vindication for his 2006 "documentary," "An Inconvenient Truth": "You mentioned my movie back in the day. The single most common criticism from skeptics when the film came out focused on the animation showing ocean water flowing into the World Trade Center memorial site. Skeptics called that demagogic and absurd and irresponsible. It happened last October 29th, years ahead of schedule, and the impact of that and many, many other similar events here and around the world has really begun to create a profound shift."
But that's not what Al referred too when he talked about water flowing into the WTC memorial site in his movie:
The reference is to Hurricane Sandy, a Category 2 storm when it struck the Northeastern U.S., flooding parts of New York and New Jersey, including downtown Manhattan. (Sandy peaked in the Caribbean as a Category 3 storm. By comparison, 2005's Hurricane Katrina went as high as Category 5 and made landfall at Category 3.)
But if we roll the film–which is less than scintillating, but the clip lasts less than 2½ minutes–we find that what Gore predicted in "An Inconvenient Truth" was something far direr than a storm and a flood. He predicted that lower Manhattan–along with vast and heavily populated swaths of Florida, California, the Netherlands, China, India and Bangladesh–would be permanently submerged owing to higher sea levels.
"Think of the impact of a couple of hundred thousand refugees when they're displaced by an environmental event," Gore intoned in the movie. "And then imagine the impact of 100 million or more." And then keep imagining. While Sandy caused severe temporary disruption and wrought an unusual amount of damage because it happened to hit a population center, it was not different in kind from other natural disasters. Lower Manhattan was soon dry again.
Again, a lie, or at best an extreme exaggeration.
And that has been typical of this entire politically driven "science based" effort to claim that we're headed to disaster because of man. As Taranto says, "while Al Gore isn't a scientist, the Climategate scandal showed that some scientists are no more scrupulous than he is."
Have to agree. Exaggeration and alarm are the only way their science-deficient bunk can get any press. So they indulge in it freely and call their opponents names.
Hurricane Sandy was a Cat 2 hurricane. I've actually flown into a Cat 2 hurricane (Alex). Trust me no one was calling Alex a "super storm". That's because it hit Mexico. But Sandy hit one of the world's biggest media centers (and it hit the area perfectly for maximum effect). Had it bumped into North Carolina instead it would have just been another Cat 2 already forgotten.
Instead we have this charlatan hyping it for headlines which are easily debunked. You have to wonder why? Certainly in hope of headline reading low information citizens seeing and believing his bunk. But there's more to it than that … follow the money.
Sean Smith's mother doesn't think his death is phony … nor the scandal surrounding it
[Guest posting at Hot Air today:]
In its usual inept and ham-fisted way, the Obama administration has chosen to address the scandals surrounding it by waving them away as "phony" – conspiracies dreamed up and pursued by political enemies. The president recently did that in his long-winded, laborious and incredibly boring re-hash of his failed economic policies. The "phony" conspiracies are "distractions" from the "real problem", a problem he has yet to address satisfactorily during his term in office.
The "phony" scandals include Benghazi, the IRS targeting of political groups on the right and others. All were initially acknowledged by the administration and the president as serious breaches of public trust. They've since, however, transformed into conspiracies generated by their enemies.
But there's one voice asking what was "phony" about her son't death in Benghazi?
Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, who was slain in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack, lashed out on "Your World" on the Fox News Channel about that terminology.
President Obama has never revealed what, if anything, he was doing while workers at the Benghazi embassy were urgently requesting support, nor has the administration explained why no forces were sent to protect the embassy. The administration also denied the attack was a terrorist incident, claiming it was a spontaneous protest against an obscure YouTube trailer for a film that may or may not exist.
To make matters worse, she was essentially lied to while standing on the ramp watching the body of her son being offloaded from an AirForce transport plane in Dover, DE. Speaking of Obama, she said:
"I don't believe him anymore," Smith said. "He's wrong. My son is dead. How could that be phony?"
According to Smith, she has been given no answers about what happened that night. She said the administration told her she "didn't need to know."
"When I was there at the ceremony of the welcoming of the caskets, both Obama and Hillary and Biden and all of the other ones, all promised me they would get back to me to tell me what happened," Smith said. "I begged them. Please, I must know what happened with my son. How come this happened? They all promised me they would get back to me. You know, not one of them, not one of them ever got back to me in any way shape or form — not by a letter, not by anything other than I got a memo stating that I didn't need to know because I was not part of the immediate family."
No answers, no contact and no closure. She's lost all faith in the credibility of those who promised her answers, and rightfully so. And then, as if to deliver a final slap to her face, an arrogant president waves away the death of 4 men, including her son, as a "phony scandal".
She, however, has no intention of leaving the questions the administration is avoiding like the plague unanswered:
Smith made one last plea to the Obama administration explaining her desire for answers.
"How can I tell you?" Smith added. "I mean, it is wrong. It is not phony. It is not fake. My son is dead, and why is he dead? All I am waiting for even to this day is just someone to get back to me and tell me what happened. Why did Hillary do as she did? Why was there no security there when there was supposed to be? Who was the general that called back the troops when they were going to help?"
Is it really too much to ask the President of the United States to be forthcoming about why you son died in the service of his country? Apparently so.
Meanwhile in Kabul, the administration is on track to see what happened in Benghazi happen there as again very lax security has been cited by an internal investigation that the Washington Times obtained under the Freedom of Information Act as a risk to the safety of embassy personnel.
U.S. diplomatic facilities in Afghanistan have serious security lapses that pose "unnecessary risk to staff," including poor emergency preparedness and inadequate protections that might allow classified materials to fall into the hands of attacking enemies, according to an internal report that raises fresh questions about the State Department's commitment to safety in the aftermath of the Benghazi tragedy.
Another "phony" scandal in the making.
IRS scandal cover-up begins to unravel
The IRS scandal took on new impetus today with a interesting revelation:
Top IRS officials in Washington, D.C. planned and oversaw the agency's improper targeting of conservative groups, according to the 72-year old retiring IRS lawyer who will testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee.
Retiring IRS lawyer Carter C. Hull implicated the IRS Chief Counsel's office, headed by Obama appointee William J. Wilkins, and Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the IRS' exempt organizations office, in the IRS targeting scandal and made clear that the targeting started in Washington, according to leaked interviews that Hull granted to the Oversight Committee in advance of Thursday's hearing.
Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George will return to Republican chairman Darrell Issa's committee Thursday along with two central characters in the IRS saga: Hull and Cincinnati-based IRS employee Elizabeth Hofacre, who previously gave Hull's name to congressional investigators, fingering him as her Washington-based supervisor.
Yup, the rats are deserting the sinking ship. They are certainly not willing to go down with it and so they're naming names. And contrary to all the claims previously, it seems that Washington D.C. was indeed involved and not just a "couple of rogue agents in Cincinnati" as we were told in the beginning.
It's usually never the crime itself that hangs politicians, but the attempted (and ham-fisted) cover-up. And that's precisely what this is beginning to look like. As for being "ham-fisted", is there anything this administration does that isn't ham-fisted?
Obama probably didn't overtly order the IRS Tea Party targeting–and that makes it worse
Obama's shills have settled in on a long-term talking point concerning the IRS scandal. They say something along the lines of "Obama didn't tell the IRS to target anyone for political reasons. That's just crazy. And, since you can't pin anything on Obama, there's no scandal here."
There are two clear logical fallacies in this position.
First, it's a strawman argument. I don't know anyone anywhere on the political spectrum who is saying that Obama actually issued any directives to anyone to start the targeting. In one of my previous posts about it, I explicitly said
Even if Obama isn't directly involved (and he would have to be sand-poundingly stupid to have issued actual directives that resulted in this) his rhetoric towards these groups was a contributing factor, so he bears some responsibility.
Along the same lines, one of our commenters (jpm100) wrote this morning:
…these orders didn't necessarily have to come from the Whitehouse. The organization is corrupted by years democratic nepotism and recent leadership influenced by Team Obama and the tone of non-accountability set by the Whitehouse. Team Obama knew the kind of people they were appointing. These people knew what Team Obama wants. And they knew the worst consequence for them would be a job change to some Democrat Party position or some job with a Democrat benefactor. So they just did it.
The Whitehouse could be involved, but other than ensuring no serious consequences after the fact, it doesn't have to be.
These comments also point up the second logical fallacy. Big-government fanciers really don't want to face up to the possibility that the federal government is just as out of control as those on the right have been saying for years (or decades). They would very much like to pretend that there's no scandal here.
So they use a complete non sequitur. "Obama didn't give the directive" –> "There's no scandal."
This is stupid even by standards of leftist argument. Political targeting by the IRS is a serious and scandalous problem no matter how it started.
We know the political targeting is there. The attempted leftist misdirection that it wasn't politically motivated and that "progressive groups were targeted too" failed just as badly as the "doctored emails" Benghazi talking point.
Two senior IRS bureaucrats have now taken the 5th. The FBI is stonewalling an investigation that Congress ordered. It's possible, or even likely, that the targeting affected the outcome of the 2012 elections.
So we have a serious, serious scandal. I said in the earlier post that
The IRS scandal is bigger than Watergate, bigger than Benghazi, bigger than Fast and Furious, bigger than Iran-Contra, bigger than Monicagate – bigger than any other scandal for the federal government in my lifetime.
The reason I believe that is what the scandal says about the federal bureaucracy. The one agency that is supposed to be scrupulously non-partisan is revealed as having chosen sides in the partisan debate.
It doesn't matter if Obama ordered it.* All he had to to was put forth enough "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" rhetoric for the IRS bureaucracy to know they likely would not be punished by him for doing it.**
It would only take one other essential ingredient – an IRS bureaucracy sympathetic to the Obama administration and hostile to his political opponents. That's what the scandal shows us – that the supposedly non-partisan bureaucracy, the one we all have to deal with whether we like it or not, is now a de facto arm of political leftism.
We have additional evidence for this. We know that the IRS favors Obama in political contributions:
While IRS employees generally donated to Obama by a 4-to-1 ratio, the lawyers for that particular federal agency donated to Obama by an astounding 20-to-1 ratio, according to Robert Anderson, associate professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
Lawyers are relevant because they are the ones taking the lead in writing regulations, litigating cases, and making delicate legal judgment calls in borderline cases.
The result is a solvent that is eating away at our civil society. Once half the country no longer trusts the government bureaucracy to even carry out it's most basic functions in a non-partisan way, the seeds are sown for a terrible reckoning.
That's what makes it even worse that the targeting probably was not ordered by Obama. Assuming he didn't overtly order it, and the IRS bureaucrats came up with it on their own, means we are getting much closer to that reckoning that we thought.
* I'm not completely dismissing the possibility that someone in the White House did start the ball rolling. Probably not Obama, though – at most his role might have been some casual musing about how those Tea Party groups were getting pretty uppity, and someone should check into them. I'd be flabbergasted if any hard evidence turned up that he directly ordered the targeting.
** There is ample evidence that the Obama administration will cover for its allies reflexively. See the Black Panther voter intimidation case for an example.
IRS investigation still lags–I'm guessing they can't find anyone who wants the job
Via Instapundit, I see that an attorney representing Tea Party groups says:
"I have no reason to believe there is an investigation. It appears to me the Obama administration is only talking to itself," Mitchell stated in an e-mail.
The FBI announced the supposed investigation over six weeks ago. Three weeks later, FBI Director Robert Mueller said he didn't know who the lead investigator is or how many agents are assigned.
Unlike most of the misdirection and obfuscation in the IRS scandal, I think he was telling the truth, and I think the reason is simple: at that point, and maybe even up to now, there may not be a lead investigator.
The FBI clearly doesn't want to do this investigation. If the IRS targeting scandal is as bad as it appears so far, the investigation is going to be long and messy, and possibly end up sending some federal bureaucrats to jail. I doubt this outcome has much appeal to other federal bureaucrats.
I don't know much about how the FBI operates. I don't know how much influence investigators have over the work that is assigned to them. But if they have any influence at all, even informal influence, then it's quite possible that assignments to the investigative team are being passed around inside the FBI like a hot potato.
Put yourself inside the head of someone at the FBI being assigned to investigate the IRS. Here are some of the thoughts I imagine you could have:
- "If I find something really bad, the Obama administration isn't going to like it. Or me, for bringing it out. Will they torpedo me? Will I find myself being smeared?"
- "What if I find some real wrongdoing, and someone at the IRS decides to retaliate?"
- "Taking down the IRS could mean the FBI is next. We've had our own share of messes over the years."
- "No matter how this thing turns out, my career is probably going to take a hit."
Given the realities of the situation, if you worked at the FBI, would you want to be on the investigative team? And if you get stuck on it, are you more interested in getting to the bottom of the mess or mollifying the political class to minimize the impact on you personally?
The FBI has been cruising on a reputation of professionalism that I think vanished in fact long ago. From their incompetent labs to suppressing information to protect Obama, they are far more political and far less professional than they would like to pretend.
Given that problem, will the FBI be motivated and capable enough to get to the bottom of the scandal? I doubt it. Oh, we'll have a pro-forma investigation at some point. But I'm betting we'll find out a lot more through the lawsuits launched by Tea Party groups. We might find even more with a special prosecutor if the Democrats would allow one to be appointed, but in their own craven political interests, they probably won't.
Somewhere on the federal side, a scapegoat will eventually be found, possibly two or three. They will be fired, and the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party will work overtime selling the "Nothing more to see, time to move along" narrative.
They have to. The left-leaning political class recognizes the possible damage if they can't contain this scandal. It was bad enough when the media chose sides in the left-vs-right political battle. If those on the right also become convinced that the entire federal bureaucracy has similarly chosen sides, then they will likely conclude that our current political differences can't possibly be decided through normal political means. They will feel, rightly, that the system is rigged against them.
Which would mean that they come to the same conclusion many of us came to a while back.
And you wonder why we're getting involved in Syria?
A growing number of Americans believe that senior White House officials ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups, according to a new national poll.
And a CNN/ORC International survey released Tuesday morning also indicates that a majority of the public says the controversy, which involves increased IRS scrutiny of tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, is very important to the nation.
Look, Obama's legacy is important to Democrats because it may mean victory or defeat for the next Democratic presidential candidate. And like it or not, a scandal plagued 2nd term isn't going to help his legacy or the Democrat's next chosen presidential candidate. In fact, one of the reasons Obama is in the White House now is the successful negative portrayal of the Bush years by the left and the press.
In the case of Obama, the press and done it's best to dampen the reach of the scandals, but it is, for once, failing in it's endeavor. The scandals are too wide ranging and hit too close to home to fears the citizenry has held concerning government's abuse of power. And make no mistake, these scandals are all about abusing power.
Last month only 37% of the public thought that the IRS controversy led to the White House, with 55% saying that agency officials acted on their own without direct orders from Washington. Now the number who say the White House directed that IRS program has increased 10 points, to 47%, virtually the same as the 49% who believe the IRS agents acted on their own.
"Younger Americans are much less likely than older Americans to believe in White House involvement, and there is, not surprisingly, a partisan divide as well," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "But the Obama administration may be losing independents on this matter. In May, only 36% felt the White House ordered the IRS to target conservative groups; now that number has crossed the 50% threshold."
Of course naive youngsters who really haven't been around for or paid attention to scandals of the past, certainly might want to believe their idol, Barack Obama, is involved in this. But you can see as well as I can, as more and more info comes out, that minds are changing. This is a serious shot at the Obama legacy. Or at least that's what 51% of Americans are saying:
Fifty-one percent of those questioned said the IRS controversy is a very important issue to the nation, compared to 55% who felt that way in May. In the past week and a half, the IRS story has been put a bit on the backburner, as the controversy over the federal government's massive surveillance program has dominated the spotlight.
Ironic, no? The 4% drop I mean. It has dropped as a "very important issue to the nation" because another scandal has popped up.
So what's the Obama playbook say you do when it goes from bad to worse?
Hello Syria ….
Common thread in all of these scandals? Abuse of power
That's the conclusion Insty comes too in his USA Today column:
The NSA spying scandal goes deep, and the Obama administration's only upside is that the furor over its poking into Americans' private business on a wholesale basis will distract people from the furor over the use of the IRS and other federal agencies to target political enemies — and even donors to Republican causes — and the furor over the Benghazi screwup and subsequent lies (scapegoated filmmaker Nakoula is still in jail), the furor over the "Fast And Furious" gunrunning scandal that left literally scores of Mexicans dead, the scandal over the DOJ's poking into phone records of journalists (and their parents), HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' shakedown of companies she regulates for "donations" to pay for ObamaCare implementation that Congress has refused to fund, the Pigford scandal where the Treasury Department's "Judgment Fund" appears to have been raided for political purposes — well, it's getting to where you need a scorecard to keep up.
But, in fact, there's a common theme in all of these scandals: Abuse of power. And, what's more, that abuse-of-power theme is what makes the NSA snooping story bigger than it otherwise would be. It all comes down to trust.
Anyone who, in fact, trusts government these days is simply not paying attention or is a part of it. As Reynolds outlines above, each and every one of the scandals mentioned do, in some degree or another, involve an abuse of power. And an abuse of power is always an abuse of trust. This administration has been just about as abusive of both power and trust as any in our history.
What should bother you is they don't seem to care. To me that points to a culture that has come to accept the fact – at least in their world – that government is all powerful and can do no real wrong. It's "for the people", after all, that they commit these abuses. It is also in the name of "security" – that all-purpose reason to grind away at the freedoms we enjoy and put us under more and more government control.
One of those old dead white men who helped found this country saw the possibility of the latter long ago. In fact, he'd seen it in his lifetime and had done all in his power to escape it and to build a system that wouldn't tolerate the types of abuses of power we do today:
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." – James Madison
Bottom line, we're saddled with an arrogant and abusive, totally out of control goverment that badly needs reigning in. The problem – we need statesmen who can do that. And we all know where we are in that particular case. Without, that's where. We're stuck with self-serving politicians.
By the way, are we really any safer since the draconian security measures have been implemented?
Anonymous government sources quoted in news reports say yes, but we know that all that snooping didn't catch the Tsarnaev brothers before they bombed the Boston Marathon — even though they made extensive use of email and the Internet, and even though Russian security officials had warned us that they were a threat. The snooping didn't catch Major Nidal Hasan before he perpetrated the Fort Hood Massacre, though he should have been spotted easily enough. It didn't, apparently, warn us of the Benghazi attacks — though perhaps it explains how administration flacks were able to find and scapegoat a YouTube filmmaker so quickly . But in terms of keeping us safe, the snooping doesn't look so great.
And it remains "snooping" regardless whether it great or not.
Is this the the type of country in which we really want to live? Where we're afraid of our own shadow and our government to boot?
Today's attempted narrative on the IRS scandal: A Republican in the IRS says "Nothing to see here"
Since the Clinton era, we've seen the left retreat from reality into a dependence on post-modern narrative. They don't even bother to hide it; they talk about narrative all the time, and they've reached the point where "the fact is" has become a public speaking tic for Democrats that really means "what I prefer you to believe is" or "the accepted leftist narrative is".*
Narrative isn't about reality; the post-modern leftists don't even think there is such a thing as objective reality. Narrative is about what you can get people to believe.
When the left is really having trouble finding a narrative that will stick, they like to use misdirection. For example, they will pull out a single aspect of an issue, even if the aspect was made up or planted just for the purpose, and try to push the meme that "because of this one thing, the rest doesn't matter".
We saw the attempt with Benghazi, and the supposedly "doctored" emails. One of our own leftist commenters pushed and pushed on the idea that, because the Republicans doctored emails, the whole Benghazi controversy was obviously ginned up by the Republicans to embarrass Obama, and therefore wasn't a "real scandal".
Again, reality doesn't matter. The Republicans didn't even get those emails. They got summaries. The summaries came from ABC News, and the Republicans presented what they received. But to a committed leftist and Obama apologist, so what? They're Republicans! Stop paying attention to stuff like dead ambassadors, bad decisions, and the earlier, failed misdirection about the video. Just dismiss the whole thing because (I claim) Republicans doctored emails.**
The latest attempt of that type in the IRS scandal is to put forth some schmoe in the Cincinnati office who says there's no evidence Obama is involved, and is (gasp!) a conservative Republican.
This is simple misdirection. First, the guy just describes himself as a conservative Republican. Doesn't mean he really is. We've seen plenty of cases in the past where these supposedly conservative or independent people involved in a situation turned out to be anything but.
Second, the person who put this out, the consistently idiotic Congressman Elijah Cummings, refused to release the full transcript. He released the parts that created the impression he wanted.
So there's plenty of full story still to come out. That, of course, didn't stop Joan Walsh at Salon from crowing "Elijah Cummings outplays Darrell Issa", as if this were some kind of tennis match instead of a deadly serious problem that threatens the very legitimacy of the federal government.
Even if he turns out to have voted straight ticket Republican back to the beginning of time, it doesn't change some of the basic facts:
- Groups were targeted because of political ideology
- People in Washington signed the letters demanding that were part of the targeting effort
- No one anywhere along the line, no matter what the philosophy, raised a flag about the targeting
This bespeaks a partisan, authoritarian culture in the IRS as an institution. As Dale is fond of pointing out, it's hard to see how that can possibly be fixed without changing the tax system in such a way that we eliminate the IRS.
That will not stop desperate Obama apologists from seizing on this narrative the way a starving coyote seizes a squirrel. They will state the "established fact" that a conservative Republican says Obama wasn't involved, and use that as an excuse to hand wave away everything else that anyone says about the IRS scandal. Here is Cummings himself:
"Based upon everything I've seen, the case is solved," he said. "If it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on."
This is ridiculous. The IRS scandal is bigger than Watergate, bigger than Benghazi, bigger than Fast and Furious, bigger than Iran-Contra, bigger than Monicagate – bigger than any other scandal for the federal government in my lifetime. Teapot Dome isn't close to this. Even if Obama isn't directly involved (and he would have to be sand-poundingly stupid to have issued actual directives that resulted in this) his rhetoric towards these groups was a contributing factor, so he bears some responsibility.
None of that is going to change because the leftists have found a new piece of misdirection. Which won't stop them from bleating about it for while to avoid any real argument, of course.
* Even some Republicans have picked up this tic. Just goes to show that if you lie down with Demos, you get up with tics….
** Have you noticed that the doctored email narrative excuse is mostly gone now? It didn't stick as a narrative, because it was obviously false-to-fact from the outset. That didn't stop leftists from pushing it as a narrative, of course, because they don't have a connection with reality. They just realized it didn't work after a while, and moved on to something else. I will be shocked the first time one of them says "Yeah, that was wrong. The Republicans didn't really doctor emails." The narrative may be out of the limelight, but the leftists still believe it because it feels so good to believe it.


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David Simon is a talented writer and storyteller, but is he qualified to give advice to publishers about how to save their dying industry?
As qualified as anybody else, I suppose. But when he suggested in a recent piece for CJR that people like me who disagree with his position on paid content were unqualified, that got under my skin a bit. Simon wrote, "These folks (paywall opponents) don't understand the first thing about actual journalism." He also lumped us in with an imaginary crowd of people who supposedly think amateurs can replace professionals, though we take no such position.
To Simon's credit, he engaged readers in comments on his CJR piece, but the conversation turned more into a quibble over the definition of ad hominem than a dialogue about the important issues facing newspapers.
I decided to step back and lay out my thoughts in a more organized fashion.
First, Simon and I agree: that journalism is important. That newspapers giving their content away for free online is a bad idea. That investigative/enterprise journalism is expensive. That the beat system plays an important role in watchdog journalism, and beat journalism requires paid professionals who are in it for the long haul.
That said, there are at least 10 arguments against paywalls.
The Times is unique. It isn't a local paper. Even the New York news covered by the Times has more national gravitas than local flavor. The Times has a global audience, and as a truly outstanding journalistic institution it has some key advantages: Namely, it comes closer than most other outlets to producing journalism on a consistent basis that people will actually pay for; and it produces journalism that people all over the world will consistently link to. These are powerful forces for creating the kind of added value that might lead to paid subscriptions.
The Times takes advantage of these assets by keeping its paywall porous. Not only is it easily defeated, the Times rewards people who follow links from other sources by not counting those articles against the monthly quota (see comment #45 by Greg in the CJR conversation with Simon).
While Simon, near the end of the thread, notes some high-minded predictions about the potential growth of the Times paywall, he has not provided evidence that it will ever do what he claims a paywall can do: Support, on its own, New York Times journalism. By this standard, which Simon created himself, the Times paywall is an abject failure.
The Times has a newsroom budget of $200 million annually. The most optimistic estimate I could find for its paywall revenue is $100 million.
Simon believes that if his old paper, The Baltimore Sun (which once had, he says, 300,000 subscribers) went to an online-only, pay-to-play model, it would generate $3.6 million in revenue for the Sun, which he believes could sustain the Sun newsroom. In 2009, before a round of layoffs, the Sun had 148 editorial employees (elsewhere in comments Simon said the Sun once had a newsroom of 500 staffers). I can't find payroll figures for the Sun, but total personnel costs had to be between $10 million and $15 million in 2009, so on that basis alone Simon's math doesn't make the grade, and that's to maintain a newsroom that even Simon finds weak and emaciated.
A metro newsroom—the newsroom Simon is most concerned about protecting—needs between $50 million and $100 million to provide the kind of big, serious journalism Simon advocates. At $10 a month per subscription (Simon's figure), the news site would need 416,000 subscribers to cover a $50 million editorial budget.
While in a city like Baltimore you could do that level of journalism, even enterprise/watchdog journalism, in an online-only way for $3.6 million, that isn't what Simon is proposing. He wants "day-in, day-out comprehensive coverage of entire metro regions" (recent comment). In 2009, he wrote that the $3.6 million budget could provide a metro newsroom "that covers local politics, local culture, local sports, and financial news." I don't see how $3.6 million even begins to get that job done.
One of the best and smartest metro newspaper editors of the past couple of decades, John Robinson, has said newspaper paywalls are a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.
It's an assessment backed by some hard facts.


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Olivia (Kuhn) Windholz
Olivia (Kuhn) Windholz, 88, Victoria, died Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at Good Samaritan Center, Ellis.
Olivia (Kuhn) Windholz, 88, Victoria, died Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at Good Samaritan Center, Ellis.
She was born Dec. 5, 1925, on the family farm northwest of Victoria to Anton and Mary (Hoffman) Kuhn.
She married Bernard "Ben" Windholz on Oct. 30, 1944, in Victoria. He preceded her in death Jan. 23, 2001.
She was a member of the Basilica of St. Fidelis, Victoria. She was a homemaker, a farmer's wife and enjoyed cooking, gardening, sewing, quilting and spending time with her grandchildren.
Survivors include a son, Leland Windholz and wife, Mary Ann, Victoria; a son-in-law, Leon Huser, Vincent; two brothers, Alfred Kuhn and wife, Lucille, and Alphonse "Ollie" Kuhn, both of Victoria; two sisters, Lorinda Schmeidler and Henrietta Kuhn, both of Hays; seven grandchildren, Kevin Huser and wife, Kathy, Galen Huser and wife, Shelly, Geralyn Schippers and husband, Troy, Randy Huser, Glenn Huser and wife, Brandy, Amorette Windholz, and Garett Windholz and wife, Meredith; and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Elsie Marie Huser; three brothers, Edmund Kuhn, Emil Kuhn and Ermin "Ernie" Kuhn; four sisters, Albina Dreiling, Regine Kuhn, Helen Dinkel and Margaret Kuhn; and three infant sisters, Albina, Mary and Henrietta.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Basilica of St. Fidelis; burial in St. Fidelis Cemetery.
A vigil and parish rosary will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Cline's Mortuary, 412 Main, Victoria.
Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. Saturday, both at the funeral home.
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(01-12-2013 09:32 PM)PSA10Please Wrote: So I have a few cards that came with the auto on them, out of the package. For example, I have a 2009 bowman chrome auto blue Carlos Santana. I know these are real signatures, just stuck on a sticker and stuck to the card. Is it worth it to get the card signed "again"? I'm basically making this collection for my kids so it's not for money unless they sell them when they are older. Would this raise the value of the card? I have the chance to get this card signed my Santana next week and was wondering if I should take this card or no... Opinions? Suggestions? Thanks
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Older Women Undressing Older Women. dream interpretations
Women Dream Explanation
— In a dream,
represent the world, its glitters and pleasures. If one sees
coming toward him in a dream, it means his success in the world. If they walk away from him in the dream, it means his poverty in the world. Sitting content in the company of
in a dream means lack of work. (Also see Woman)
Women Dream Explanation
— The sight of a woman, in general, is a good augury, especially if she is sprightly, adorned, and complacent, with a smiling face. And the best woman to be seen in a dream is the unknown, young, virtuous, and very dark-skinned Arab woman, according to Ibn Siren. An unknown old and ugly or imperfect woman symbolizes life on earth, which is the essence of temptation and intrigue. Such a life appeared to the Holy Prophet in the shape of a woman when he ascended beyong heaven, one night, to meet Allah. Hence the belief that
are temptation and intrigue. Similarly, worldly life was seen by many people in their dreams as an old, imperfect woman. It follows that a poor man dreaming that such a woman is considering his situation should expect luck to smile on him again. Flowers in his garden will blossom, his dead fields will start greening again, and he will become self-sufficient. If ill, he shall recover. If forgetful of life after death, he shall come back to his senses. The same dream applied to the public means that the people will reap harvest during the year in which they had lost hope or in the year that immediately follows it. It could also mean that a spreading and vicious war will come to an end and that normalcy will be restored.
• An unveiled and adorned old woman: A sign that success will be quick.
• A grim-faced old woman: Prestige will go.
• An ugly old woman: Things will turn upside-down to the dreamer's detriment.
• A naked old woman: Scandal.
• A veiled old woman: Regret.
• An old woman entering the dreamer's house: Luck and success in life.
• An old woman leaving the dreamer's house: Will lose everything on earth.
• An old Muslim woman: An honest life.
• An old non-Muslim woman: A life full of sins.
• An old woman complying with the dreamer's desires: Objectives will be fulfilled insomuch as she was complacent.
• An old woman disobeying the dreamer's orders despite his pleas and insistence: Hurdles. The dream is more likely to come true if the old woman was an unidentified one. However, Sheikh Abdul Ghani Al-Nabulsi has a completely different concept of dreams involving old
, a concept the author of this book finds more rational, since the Arabic word for old woman is ajouz from ajz, which means "incapacity" or "inability." It follows that an old woman represents: (1)
Incapacity, especially if she appears sick. (2)
Declining fortune. (3)
Sorrow. (4)
The Hereafter, since senility is the reverse of liveliness. (5)
Wine, since in Arabic the word khamr, or wine, could refer to an old woman.60 (6)
A cow, since again in Arabic, an old woman is sometimes referred to as a cow. (7)
Wickedness and deceit. (8)
Gossip. (9)
Fertility after despair. (10)
Sterile land.
• A thirsty old woman: Drought.
• A weak old woman: A year of drought. The reverse is also true.
• A rejuvenated old woman: The end of drought.
• An old woman entering a patient's room: Possible death.
• An old woman coming to a pregnant lady: Good augury, because old
traditionally look after children and mothers after delivery.
• A man handling some important matter dreaming that he was in the company of or having sex with an old woman: Will fail and objectives will not be fulfilled.
• A veiled old woman with only the eyes visible: Hardships and regret.
• An ugly old woman: Intrigue and war.
• An old atheist woman: Illicit gains.
• An armed old woman: Lawful gains and joy.
• A woman dreaming that she had become old: Prestige, respect, and virtue.
• An unknown old woman: A dry year.
• People marvelling at an old woman descending from heaven: The year of the dreamer's gains.
• An old woman having ceased to have sex dreaming that her vigour and sexual passion are back and that she is having legitimate intercourse: Will be more successful in both religious and worldly matters. In the event of forbidden sex she will be more successful only in earthly matters.
• A smiling and enthusiastic young woman flirting with the dreamer or allowing him to dominate or command her: Marriage or recovery from a stomach or any other disease.
• An unknown young, beautiful, neat, pious, and almost ascetic woman: The Hereafter and whatever is done to merit Paradise, such as honest living, good deeds, et cetera. But she could also symbolize: (1)
Ephemeral life. (2)
Money or assets that do not stay, as beauty withers away. (3)
Dead earth. (4)
A devastated house.
• A known woman with the above description: A reference to the person herself, a lady sharing the same name or who resembles her, or her opposite number.
• Seeing a woman so beautiful that the dreamer imagines her to be a creature from Paradise as described in the Holy Quran (houreyyah, or nymph with enormous black and pristine eyeballs contrasting with her skin, like a deer): Will die as a martyr for the sake of God.
• Seeing an earthly creature with that description: Being saved from any kind of trouble, money, a ship, a camel, or a caravan, et cetera, the dreamer will come back from a journey bringing welfare; any wish or request will be granted by the ruler or chief; crops will grow; and so on and so forth.
• A perfect woman: An allusion to what her name refers to on earth or in the other world, for a woman is a world in herself or to whoever enters her life; she is delight and passion and ecstasy. In terms of the Hereafter, she reforms her man on the religious plane. She could also symbolize power or the ruler or chief himself, because she governs her man by enticing him and arousing his passion, making him strive and toil like a slave to try to make her happy. Analogies are also drawn between
and earth and the grave, as man comes from earth and returns to it; gardens, the fruit-bearing tree; the year (in view of what it conceives and delivers); cows (because of the milk) and ewes; the rain; and, revolting as it may seem to contemporary women's liberation activists, anything that a man rides or steps on or that is hollow like a box, or used for storage, be it a ship, an animal, a sole or a complete shoe, a carpet or rug, or a sink. She is also represented by a glass bottle and by the toilet. Likewise, the woman symbolizes the prison; the partner, as she shares man's wealth and pleasure; any secret, the underwear; the ink pot; and the seat.
• Talking to or mixing, joking, or playing with a pretty woman who has entered one's house: (1)
A fruitful year. (2)
Welfare and joy. (3)
An end to poverty and to poor luck. (4)
Liberation from prison.
• A woman commanding people and inviting them to obey God: Piety.
• An authoritarian woman addressing the public and telling them what they should and what they should not do: Religious benefit.
• A woman as described above opposing the public or touching or kissing the audience or showing her private parts: Intrigue or a proving matter in which those seen getting anything from her will perish in view of verse 35 of the Quranic chapter "Al-Anbiyae" (The Prophets), which says: "Every soul must taste of death, and We try you with evil and with good, for ordeal. And unto Us ye will be returned."
• A large number of
being moved to a certain place on horse or camelback and carrying weapons or tools: Workers will flock to the area.
• Having a dispute with a woman, especially if she holds a public post or enjoys a high social position, then resenting her: (1)
Will lose one's bread. (2)
Will fade out. (3)
Well-being and power will wane, but after a while everything will be back to normal.
• Seeing a dishevelled woman—an absolute stranger: Will imminently lose something. But if she is pretty, will find it again.
• Kissing a lady: Will lose something.
• Having sex with a woman: Bad omen.
• Carrying a beautiful woman: (1)
Recovery from a disease. (2)
Release from prison. (3)
• A religious-minded man seeing an adulteress or an atheistic woman: Good augury and blessings.
• A profligate seeing an adulteress or a dissolute woman: His faith will weaken further; he will indulge in sins, vice, and evil.
• A sterile woman becoming pregnant: Welfare and reform in one's life and in the Hereafter.
• A group of
looking at the dreamer and one of them inviting him to join in: (1)
Bad reputation, though innocent. (2)
Will obtain what he is aiming for, but later on. (3)
His enemies will not have the upper hand.
• A dispute among numerous women: Strange events will disturb some people. The reverse is also true.
• A young man smiling at the dreamer: The revival of dead matters.
• A fat woman: A fertile or fruitful year.
• A slim woman: A poor year.
• An old woman: Nothing good should be expected from such a dream, unless she is unveiled and adorned.
• Negresses61 coming to the dreamer: Lots of legitimate benefits.
• A black woman: A dark night. A bad omen, unless she belongs to someone.
• A white woman: A night softened by moonlight.
• A woman being sold: Power will wane and stability will be shaken, but not forever.
• Seeing a woman other than those the dreamer sees when he is awake: The dreamer will lose some of his assets, then find them again. Killing such a woman would mean that a large chunk of the dreamer's wealth will go. Having sex with her means all his wealth will be lost.
• A lady seeing an old woman: (1)
A reference to her own efforts. (2)
Her endeavours will fail.
• A lady seeing a young woman: An enemy, whatever she looks like.
• A young woman dreaming that she has become old: She is a virtuous one.
• A woman dreaming that all her hair has turned white: (1)
Her husband is a debauchee. If not, he will swap her for another woman or slave. (2)
Somehow she will bring grief and sorrow to her husband.
• A woman with black hair: (1)
Her husband loves her. (2)
Her husband is a righteous man.
• A married woman dreaming that she has uncovered her hair: Her husband will be absent. If her hair remained uncovered, the husband would never come back.
• An unmarried woman dreaming that she has uncovered her hair: Will never get married.
• A woman seeing her thick hair admired by people: Will have a scandal.
Jewellry Worn by
Dream Explanation
— if they are made from gold or silver they symbolise a pleasant life and embellishment for the
, But if they are one or two ankle-rings or bracelets then they represent her husband, brother or father. The same is the interpretation of a crown although according to some, it presents a king or ruler.
Dreaming of Men,
and Animals Dream Explanation
— To see someone speaking to the observer or giving him something suggests that the observer will socialize or deal with him or someone who bears a similar name or resembles him.
Shoemaker Dream Explanation
— In dreams, a shoemaker is a man who helps and serves
and adorns them, because his job is to repair the shoes and soles, which, in the eyes of the ancient Arabs, symbolized
. It could also be a reference to the female slaver.
Aaron Dream Explanation
— (The Prophet Aaron, the
brother of Allah's prophet Moses, upon both of them be peace.) Seeing the prophet Aaron (uwbp) in a dream means exaltedness, leadership, or that one may become an Imam, a vice-regent of a great person, and perhaps suffer from many adversities because of it. Finally, he will triumph and attain his goals, or he may destroy a tyrant and an unjust ruler. If a warrior sees Allah's prophet Moses or his brother the prophet Aaron, upon both of them be peace and blessings, in a dream, it means that he will be victorious and triumph over his enemy.
Kohl Dream Explanation
— This is a sort of eye powder or powder of antimony, a preparation of soot and other ingredients, to darken edges of eyelids. It is extensively used by veiled Arab Bedouin
, whose eyes are the only thing seen of their body, which renders them very attractive. It is also used for newly born Muslims and by certain Muslim men. Kohl and its usual container made of silver or the kohl bottle symbolize
. They also refer to the sharp eye. Seeing a devout Muslim with kohl on his eyelids is regarded as a good dream. But it is not so if the kohl is used by a corrupt man.
Geese Dream Explanation
— In a dream, geese represent beautiful
, handsome men or money. Honking gees in a dream represent death, drowning, crying or
in mourning. Herding geese in a dream means becoming a leader or presiding over people, earning their respect and becoming wealthy through them. A goose in a dream represents a man under stress. Geese in a dream also represents survivability and control of life in water and on land. Wild geese in a dream represents travels, business, property, moving into a new neighbourhood. Geese eggs in a dream represent wealth.
Base Dream Explanation
— (Column base; Plinth) A column base or a plinth in a dream represents scholars, their circles, or their study room. A column base in a dream also could represent unmarried
, one's wife, knowledge, a trade, or a craft, or religious precepts. Building or owning a column base in a dream also could signify marriage, children, guidance, knowledge, or a chronic illness. The column base of a mosque in a dream represents pious people and the column base of a house represent chaste
Quicksilver Or Mercury Dream Explanation
— Quicksilver or mercury symbolizes the failure to keep one's promises and the missing of appointments as well as frivolous behaviour, treason, and hypocrisy.
• Holding mercury: The dreamer's religious faith is quite shaken, and he is the slave of his passions as well as a treacherous or untrustworthy person.
• Eating mercury: Trouble, worries, harm, and losses.
• Entering a quicksilver mine and coming out with something: The dreamer's wife is a wicked woman who cheats him.
• Selling mercury: The dreamer will be safe from the intrigues of a cunning woman.
• Drowning in mercury: The dreamer will be enslaved by shrewd and enticing
who have more than one card up their sleeve.
• Having plenty of mercury: The dreamer will acquire plenty of money by tricking or outsmarting
Hunting Wild Animals that are Females Dream Explanation
— they represent men,
and slave-girls.
Ink Pot or Ink Bottle Dream Explanation
— Symbolises a
. If it breaks or is stolen his wife will die.
Astronomer Dream Explanation
— In a dream, an astronomer represents someone who trades with
, a pimp, or a salesman.
Reciting Surah Saad Dream Explanation
— Its reader will have much sense of honour. He will also display much love for
, familiarizing and travelling with them.
Glass Dream Explanation
— According to Daniel the Wise, as quoted by Ibn Shaheen, glass symbolizes
. For Ibn Siren, manufactured white glass represents religion and life, especially if the name God is written on or carved in it. Otherwise, it refers to the ephemeral. He also concurs that it is part of the essence of
. If the name of a king is written on it, it means that the life of that king will soon come to an end. Glass seen in the form of a container is the least harmful. The Holy Prophet is said to have predicted the slaying of his own grandson, Al-Hussein (from his daughter Fatema Al-Zahrae), when told that he was seen in a dream holding a bottle. The Prophet said, "I shall collect in it the blood of Al-Husain."28 Dreaming of dropping a glass bottle that breaks means the dreamer's wife will die. If the dreamer is a bachelor, a female relative will pass away.
A hen Dream Explanation
— It represents a blessed woman. If many hens are seen then they represent dames and
who will gather together for some happy occasion such as a wedding.
Eggs of Unknown Birds Dream Explanation
— They represent beautiful
with handsome faces if the beholder of the dream becomes the owner of the eggs or he finds them in his possession.
Fenugreek Dream Explanation
— (Medicinal solution prepared for
after giving birth; Plant) In a dream, fenugreek represents hard earned money.
Fresh Fish Dream Explanation
— If they are huge and many they symbolise wealth and assets from the one who acquires them. If small and many it means he will be afflicted with grief and sorrow. If one or two, they represent one or two
from who he will derive benefit.
The Ribs Dream Explanation
— The ribs symbolise the
of his household. Any pain in the ribs is suggestive of similar mishaps in them.


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Every ending has a new beginning and like New Year's it is another opportunity for self-growth and change. It beckons us to ask the question, "Will I embrace the coming season or mourn the lost of the one before?"
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