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Tomato maniacs celebrate first day of spring with heirloom seedlings at Encino farm standIf you want juicy, fresh tomatoes, they'll be harvested by the bushel this summer at Tapia Bros. Farm, one of the last local field-to-farm stands in the San Fernando Valley. But if you want to grow the sexy orbs — botanically a fruit, legally a vegetable — the weekend |
Residents at The Breakers of Long Beach get notices to move outSeniors living at The Breakers of Long Beach got news Monday they will have 60 days to find a new place to live, pending the loss of the facility's license, residents said today. "This was handled so irresponsibly," said Maggie Macklin, 76, president of the complex's residents association. |
Your first (and maybe only) chance to run on a Long Beach Airport runwayA Long Beach Airport runway is scheduled to be converted into a one-mile race course for the Run the Runway event scheduled for March 31. |
7-year-old Lakewood girl gets a new 'robohand' through 3D printing technologyLOS ALAMITOS >> Faith Lennox's parents said the 7-year-old was so excited to try on her new arm that she barely slept during the night. A birth defect led to Faith's left arm being amputated just below the elbow when she was 9 months old. |
State: Assisted-living complex Breakers of Long Beach to lose licenseLONG BEACH >> The Breakers of Long Beach, an assisted-living complex for seniors that has drawn scrutiny from state regulators over allegations of improper care, will lose its license as part of a new agreement with Sacramento. |
Michael Jensen, lone survivor of 2011 Long Beach plane crash, shares storyLONG BEACH >> For the first time since a fiery 2011 airplane accident that claimed the lives of several prominent Long Beach business leaders, the crash's sole survivor shared his story in public. |
Rehab provider Solid Landings leases The Breakers of Long BeachA Costa Mesa company providing addiction-treatment services has confirmed it has leased The Breakers of Long Beach, but provided no additional details on its possible future there. The Breakers of Long Beach is an assisted-living facility doing business in a |
Bigmista's Barbecue worth the wait in Long BeachHere's what you've got to know about grabbing some barbecue at Bigmista's Barbecue & Sammich Shop in Long Beach: If you show up on a Saturday or a Sunday, there'll be a long line from the minute the place opens and there's a good chance they'll run out of various dishes long before it's time for them to close. |
Long Beach Museum of Art receives largest gift ever, a $2 million donation from Ronald and Sylvia HartmanLONG BEACH >> The Long Beach Museum of Art announced today it has received a $2 million donation, the largest single gift in the venue's 65-year history, The gift comes from philanthropists and long-time supporters Dr. |
Breakers of Long Beach president Bernard Rosenson breaks silence on complex's futureLONG BEACH >> Seniors who live at The Breakers of Long Beach may yet be able keep living at the facility after its current ownership relinquishes its license and hands over control to another firm. |
Video: Watch this Long Beach puppy befriend a butterflyLONG BEACH >> Some things are just too cute not to share, like this submission from a Long Beach local showing her Golden Doodle puppy Sophie befriending a butterfly. In the video, the butterfly lands on Sophie's nose and she patiently waits as the butterfly moves its wings. |
Long Beach Grand Prix 2015: Where to eat inside the circuit for best food, views, or drinksThe Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is the city's biggest event of the year, with more than 170,000 spectators expected to attend Friday through April 19. While the sport is the main draw, race fans will need more than that to have a good time — they'll need good food and drinks, too. |
Long Beach Restaurant Week guide by neighborhood, Yelp informationThe second annual Long Beach Restaurant Week is serving up delicious deals throughout the city from March 22-28. |
How Chinese tourism boosts Los Angeles' economyAnybody who wants to succeed in the tourism business may want to sign up for Mandarin lessons. China became the most important source of international visitors to Los Angeles last year, and tourism boosters are counting on the number of Chinese visitors to continue growing for the foreseeable future. |
Dennis McCarthy: Love overcomes the hardships of life"For better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health…" Those wedding vows weren't just words to Conrad Kreiger. When better turned to worse, richer became poorer, and sickness dominated health in his marriage, he didn't cut and run like men are more prone to do than women, according to a recent Iowa State University study published in HealthDay News. |
Don't blink! The wisteria at Rancho Los Cerritos is here, but only for a hot minuteThe wisteria arbor at Rancho Los Cerritos blooms for a short time each year, but this year, because of the heat, the beautiful purple blossoms' time with us will be even shorter. According to a press announcement from Rancho Los Cerritos, the wisteria are in full bloom — for now. |
Is this Signal Hill girl the cutest vegan kid you've seen? PETA says maybeSIGNAL HILL >> Is Genesis Butler the cutest vegan kid? The 8-year-old Signal Hill resident is among the top four female finalists in PETA Kids' 2015 Cutest Vegan Kids contest. |
Heritage Family Pantry in Lakewood dishes classic diner favoritesThe biggest dish on the breakfast menu at the venerable Heritage Family Pantry in Lakewood is called the L.A. Marathon, a platter of three eggs (any style), two French toast triangles, two pancakes, bacon, ham, sausage and home fries. |
Run the Runway attracts big crowd to Long Beach AirportLONG BEACH >> A crowd of runners gathered Tuesday under the din of helicopters, jet aircraft and live rock and roll to take advantage of the rare opportunity to run along a newly-paved airport runway. |
Bill requiring day care workers to be immunized gets mixed reactionsLONG BEACH >> As vaccination opponents protest the decision of California lawmakers Wednesday to advance a bill mandating immunizations for most children in the state, Long Beach child care officials sounded off on a related bill requiring immunizations for daycare workers. |
Come on, J.J., have a heart and let us have a puppyDear Jesus, please, please, PLEASE bring us a puppy. That was the plea reportedly made by the children of newly-announced presidential candidate Ted Cruz, and, putting aside the family's politics, I am hoping — praying! — to be as successful as the Cruz kids, now owners of a mutt named Snowflake. |
Long Beach restaurant closuresLONG BEACH Cockroach egg sacs close market A convenience market has been shut down since last week, ever since a city health inspector discovered cockroach egg sacs inside a candy bin. An inspector with the Long Beach Bureau of Environmental Health visited Market on 7th Street, at 1741 E. |
Long Beach city, community leaders featured in 'The Ten' exhibitThere will be some familiar faces at an upcoming exhibition in Long Beach, including Mayor Robert Garcia, Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, Police Chief Robert Luna and community event organizer |
San Fernando Valley woman wins $28 million against Kaiser PermanenteA young San Fernando Valley woman who lost her leg and won a $28.2 million lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente said Thursday she hopes the verdict will bring reform against the managed care giant and empower patients to question their treatment. |
More than 5,000 attend 19th Arc Walk for Independence in DowneyDOWNEY >> For Louie Gutierrez taking a walk Saturday morning with his family and friends is helping improve life. Gutierrez, a 38-year-old Downey resident, was one of at least 5,000 people who participated in the 19th |
Crème de la Crêpe in Long Beach offers sweet and savory optionsDid you know that Henri Charpentier, who as a boy created (by accident) the flaming dessert called crepe Suzette for the Prince of Wales, spent his last days in Redondo Beach, running a small and seemingly unnamed restaurant out of his cottage? Well, believe it. |
Texas ready to dump high school steroids testing programAUSTIN, Texas (AP) � When Texas officials launched a massive public high school steroids testing program over fears of rampant doping from the football fields to the tennis courts, they promised a model program for the rest of the country to... |
Tomato maniacs celebrate first day of spring with heirloom seedlings at Encino farm standIf you want juicy, fresh tomatoes, they'll be harvested by the bushel this summer at Tapia Bros. Farm, one of the last local field-to-farm stands in the San Fernando Valley. But if you want to grow the sexy orbs — botanically a fruit, legally a vegetable — the weekend |
Coroner awaits test results of soccer player hit by carLOS ANGELES (AP) � The coroner's office said Tuesday it will await the results of blood and urine tests before determining what caused the death of a University of California, Berkeley, soccer player who was hit by a car on a Los Angeles... |
Study: Fast-food limits didn't cut obesity rate in South LALOS ANGELES (AP) � A much-hailed law that restricted the opening of new stand-alone fast-food restaurants in one of the poorest sections of Los Angeles did not curb obesity or improve diets, a new study found.City lawmakers passed the zoning... |
Pacific Design Center kicks off 40th anniversary with WestweekCalifornia has long been a birthplace of residential design trends. With mid-century modern still white-hot and a growing interest in the thriving design-art movement currently coming out of Los Angeles, is it any wonder Pacific Design Center's Westweek Spring 2015 Market is expected to draw a cross-section of design professionals and enthusiasts from here and abroad? "People are much more interested in the bespoke movement — more curated, handcrafted pristine items that aren't coming out of China," says Jeff Sampson, director of marketing for the center, aka the Blue Whale. |
Lupine enlivens a boring drive; what's going on with local Victorian box trees?You travel a certain route every day, in slow-moving traffic, accustomed to the humdrum sight of nondescript greenery by the side of the road. And then one morning, along the side of that same road, you see an eruption of blue spires. |
Essentials for visiting Santa Monica _ more than just oceanSANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) � Planning a trip to Southern California but don't want to fight LA's traffic? Or maybe when you hear the word Disneyland you think, "Been there, done that"? Check out the city of Santa Monica in all its picture-postcard... |
South Bay designer Stephen Jones creates intimate, social spacesStephen Francis Jones marries architecture and food into a delightful mix designed to please the palate. But he's also into social spaces, both in the many public venues he has designed, such as the Lucky Strike bowling alley at the Hollywood & Highland Center and the recently opened Del Frisco's Grille in Pasadena, as well as at his own Manhattan Beach home. |
Where to go in Southern California to get up close and pet wildlifeLos Angeles can be a zoo. No really, it may be a big city but there's a lot of wildlife in the area — monkeys, sloths, porcupines, big cats and a whole lot of farm animals, many of which can be seen up close and, in some cases, safely petted. |
Kashiwa Japanese Cuisine is king in Signal HillKashiwa Japanese Cuisine may be the most authentic sushi restaurant in Signal Hill. Though its fast-food mini-mall location may give you pause, it's well worth parking and going through the door into what looks like an outpost of Tokyo, or even Kyoto. |
Magazine publisher Meredith finds success focusing on womenDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) � The nation's top publisher of magazines and websites for women has its origins in a journal sold door-to-door featuring tips to help farmers get ahead in the early 1900s.From there, Meredith Corp. grew and evolved,... |
Developer who didn't repay loans gets New Jersey tax creditsCAMDEN, N.J. (AP) � State tax incentives to boost New Jersey's poorest city are being heralded as a major piece of a turnaround plan after decades of economic despair, corruption and crime. But after a string of revitalization efforts with... |
Gray is the new white when it comes to furniture trendsGray is the new white and "aging in place" is becoming increasingly common among homeowners. Those are just two of the trends industry professionals noted at the |
VIDEO: Dogs receive oxygen after house fire in Long BeachA fire this evening at a home in midtown had firefighters treating one burn victim and providing oxygen to two dogs. The fire was reported at 6:46 p.m. in the 1400 Block Lemon Avenue. |
A look at the price of an affordable housing developmentA deal to renovate 175 homes for low-income residents in Camden totals nearly $57 million, or $324,000 per home.Much of the funding comes from government loans to be repaid with the help of federal rent subsidies. There are also state and federal... |
Southern California ski resorts packing it in — and 'it' isn't snowBIG BEAR CITY >> They're packing it in. But unfortunately for local ski resorts, what they're packing in isn't snow. It's the ski season. Warm weather and extreme drought have combined to force ski resorts across California to close early, and Southern California ski hubs are no exception, even as some try to squeeze some extra days out of the season for visitors from throughout L. |
California launches campaign against e-cigarettesCalifornia public health officials Monday launched an information campaign that they hope will erode the growing popularity of e-cigarettes. Since 1990, California has been a world leader in tobacco-use prevention and cessation, said Dr. |
Rogers Middle School students in Long Beach run 5k blindfolded to raise awareness for visually impairedLuke Strevell and Stephanie Marler ran Will Rogers Middle School's Mustang 5K differently than most participants last week. Strevell, a seventh grader, and his sixth grade aunt, Marler, ran and walked the race blindfolded to raise money and awareness for |
1 of last Howard Johnson's eateries sold, ending 57-year runLAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) � One of the three remaining Howard Johnson's restaurants still in business has been sold and will close after a nearly 60-year run in a New York village.Mike Butler, owner of the HoJo's in Lake Placid, says his family-run... |
South Bay garden tour offers look at beautiful native, drought tolerant plantsIt seems as though there are more garden tours every year. The increasing popularity of the garden tour phenomenon may be attributed, in large part, to the gradual demise of the lawn. When lawns disappear, there is simply a lot more territory to cover with plants. |
Pickle butts and dog food: Chef Dan Barber shows off wasteNEW YORK (AP) � What's for dinner? How about leftover cartilage of skate with herring-head tartar sauce, cured tuna blood line aioli or a meat loaf of offal and slightly past-its-prime cow usually reserved for dogs?Those and two dozen other... |
Cozy Country Inn near Camp David closing; likely to be razedTHURMONT, Md. (AP) � A hotel known among Washington journalists for its proximity to Camp David is closing its doors.Cozy Country Inn owner Jerry Freeze told The Frederick News-Post (http://bit.ly/1G6Xaim ) Monday that both the hotel and the... |
Long Beach Pride will let military personnel march for free in paradeLONG BEACH >> When Bill Murdoch, a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, marches for the first time in next month's Long Beach Pride Parade, he'll wear his uniform loud and proud. |
California takes sweeping steps to conserve water in droughtTUSTIN, Calif. (AP) � Gary Whitlock watched water run to a sidewalk as gardeners hosed down a bed of marigolds outside an Orange County office building and questioned whether California's latest attempt to curb water use would be any more... |
Coachella 2015: Festival food features L.A. eateries, pop-up restaurantsThis year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, set for April 10-12 and April 17-19 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, is expanding its food options yet again. |
Exporting Philly: Cheesesteaks, ices and pretzels go globalPHILADELPHIA >> The man intent on taking the Philly cheesesteak global saw a familiar sight from home on a recent trip to Florida: a Wawa. The hoagie-making, coffee-brewing convenience and gas chain from the Philadelphia area is pushing hard into the Sunshine State, opening more than 60 stores since 2012 with another 25 planned by the end of the year. |
Genius Juice brings coconut smoothies to the South BayIf you're looking for a high-end fruit smoothie that will fill you up rather than flush you out, Alex Bayer has a drink for you. The Redondo Beach resident has created a line of coconut-based drinks called Genius Juice that are now available in several locations around the South Bay. |
Los Angeles County residents more likely to die of flu than rest of CaliforniaLos Angeles County residents are more likely to die of influenza than most California residents, while those who live in San Bernardino County face higher cancer-related deaths, according to a |
Heinz to combine with Kraft in deal backed by Buffett, Brazilian firm, creating food giantNORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) � Heinz to combine with Kraft in deal backed by Buffett, Brazilian firm, creating food giant. |
The Latest: UN Security Council condemns Tunisia attack2:27 a.m. (0127 GMT, 9:27 p.m. EDT)Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirms the deaths of three Japanese, and says three others were injured. Japanese broadcaster NHK, quoting an unnamed senior official, says the government is aware of the... |
Dennis McCarthy: Despite setbacks, Jordan Yallen keeps baseball dream aliveThe kid knew it was going to take a lot of hard work, talent and luck to get where he wanted to go. What he didn't know was how much heart it would take. If you have a child or grandchild with dreams of becoming a professional athlete, show them this column of a young man's fight through years of adversity to hang on to his boyhood dream. |
Amid world's violence, Christians rejoice and celebrate the resurrectionAnd now, the celebration. Following the somber events of the Lenten season and Holy Week commemorating Jesus' last days on earth — and amid a world caught in violent turmoil — millions of Christians in Southern California will awaken on Sunday to attend joyful sunrise services and to pack bright, sun-drenched churches awash in Easter lilies and liturgical splendor. |
Details of victims in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525They came from as far away as Australia, Iran, Morocco and Venezuela, and their lives ended together in France's deadliest plane crash in decades.The victims included two babies, schoolchildren going home from an exchange visit, a pair of... |
States rewrite microbrew laws as demand for craft beer growsPHOENIX (AP) � Four Peaks Brewing Co. has grown over the last two decades from a microbrewery and restaurant in a historic red brick building into an Arizona staple that served nearly 1 million gallons of beer last year, including its popular... |


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Thursday, April 23, 2015
Which of These is a Greater Injustice to the Gay Community?
Execution of homosexuals by hanging in Iran.
Imagine the above two photos superimposed. I tried to get photoshop and failed.
And which will get the greater share of outrage here in America?
Labels: Religious Observances: Muslim Execution; Christian Refusal
Creepy Photo of the Month
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Profiles in Hypocrisy
Four of the current or former hosts of the little watched MSNBC news channel, each of which has supported raising the unfair, graduated income tax rates on the rich, have been slapped with tax liens. You have to let a tax problem go for a long time for it to turn into a lien.
Al Sharpton, Melissa Harris-Perry, Toure Neblett, Joy-Ann Reid. They don't appear to have paid the taxes they think and say others should pay.
I have ignored these hypocrites for a long time on most issues but certainly on tax policy.
I think it's safe for everyone else to do the same.
Labels: Tax Liens; Lefty Hypocrisy
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Zombies are Fantasy/Horror, not Science Fiction
According to Franklin, death is one of the sure things in life. And death means the body of the deceased will not get up and move toward you. In fact it will never move again. On that we can certainly rely. So zombies break a clear rule of biological science. In the literature that exists about the breaking of set scientific rules, there are two ways to go: 1) Explain through scientific means how the formerly clear rule can be broken (Science Fiction); or, 2) Don't explain (Fantasy, Horror). In the latter, the author says "there is no explanation, suspend your disbelief and deal with it." I've never been too big a fan of the latter one.
Most of us remember the high school biology about what it takes to run our muscles and nervous system; and (to reduce it to the most basic of my memories) it takes oxygen and sugar (plus some other chemicals). We get oxygen to the muscles through red blood cells charged up in the alveoli of the lungs. The sugars come from our digesting stuff we eat. I think the liver is super involved too.
Well, we know that the zombies on the Walking Dead don't need oxygen. The hanged zombies are still kicking; so is the guy the Governor put in the lake, and his collection of heads in the fish tanks. Well, without oxygen, there goes the whole system of sugars in the mitochondria and there would be no need then for the zombies to seek out and eat food. Yet we know they continue to feed, almost exclusively on the living and not on each other. That doesn't make any sense. And if the whole system of keeping our cells alive and providing nourishment and oxygen to the muscles so that they can contract (so that the zombies can move) is gone and not working, how can the zombies move and see and hear and smell?
Well, the short answer is: "They can't, they're dead."
But in a pretty good episode in a near fantasy depiction of the CDC (which really exists in Atlanta on Clifton Road) the writers tried to explain things (be Science Fiction). The idea was that the zombie phenomenon was virus caused. A virus, which was introduce almost exclusively through the bite of an infected (a zombie), killed the brain and the bitten died, but the virus survived and "re-animated" the brain (at a much diminished rate) and the dead body gets up and looks for something alive to bite and eat. This is good science in one way--disease causing viruses and bacterial infections exist because they have effects on the infected which help the virus to spread to other hosts. The most basic examples are the rhinoviruses which are spread through sneezing and coughing, but there are others more complex. In one form of the bubonic plague, the disease causes part of the stomach of a flea to contract and no matter how much blood the flea eats from a host, it is always starving and it jumps off the perfectly good host to feed on another. The bacteria is spread.
Even better is the bug that causes rabies. After infection (by a bite, usually, but any contact with the saliva, etc. of the infected will do) eventually the infected goes mad and tries to bite everything around, before the infected dies. Variations on the rabies phenomenon are the bases for fast zombies in the 28 time units Later series and in the movie version of World War Z; and to a large degree it is the model for the Walking Dead method of zombification. But, tellingly, the fast zombies in 28 what ever Later don't eat and eventually starve to death. They only bite because the disease in their brain causes them to bite. In those movies they are not zombies, they merely suffer from a disease. So Danny Boyle et al. skirt the problem with animating the dead. The book WWZ didn't handle the problem of reanimating the dead, the movie, which was worse than the book, made the biters alive but infected.
But the zombies on Walking Dead are well and truly dead and rotting as they move. So how? I'm not buying that the disease process that reanimates part of the brain is providing some near magical juice that allows the nervous system to work (poorly and slowly) and the deceased to move. I'm also not buying that the partially functioning brain of the dead on the show becomes this incredibly delicate thing that ends forever with the slightest touch of a knife blade. That's just convenience for what passes for action on the show.
So the Walking Dead is fantasy/horror not science fiction.
Glad we nailed that down.
Labels: Walking Dead; Anti-Science
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Industrial Strength Projection
One hundred and fifty years ago Thursday, after Union infantry effectively encircled the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee sent a note to Ulysses S. Grant proposing a meeting to discuss terms of surrender. With that, the Civil War began to end.There are long term consequences from even trivial historical events and certainly the most deadly war (to Americans) that we have ever fought will have substantial long term consequences, but to say the war isn't over is absurd. Not a brilliant start but it gets worse.
And at some point in the future, it may yet.
The emancipation of the slaves that accompanied the North's victory ushered in, as Abraham Lincoln had hoped, a new birth of freedom, but the old order also managed to adapt itself to the new circumstances. The subjugation of and violence against African Americans continued apace, particularly after U.S. Army troops withdrew from the South at the end of Reconstruction. Black voting was suppressed. The Southern labor system retained, in altered form, its most distinctive characteristic: unfree labor. As Douglas A. Blackmon has demonstrated in his Pulitzer Prize-winning study "Slavery by Another Name," numerous corporations — many of them headquartered in the North — relied heavily on the labor of thousands of black prisoners, many serving long sentences for minor crimes or no crimes at all.Much of this is true, but let's first identify the players. The Northern Republicans vigorously pursued a war to restore the Union (with the added benefit of ending slavery in America). The Northern Democrats vigorously supported not restoring the Union and not freeing the slaves. The Southern Democrats, mirable dictu, had the same agenda. After the war the guys subjugating and visiting violence on the former slaves were Democrats. I wonder why the author here doesn't even appear to know that?
It is a tragedy that the occupation of the South by more enlightened (Republican) troops ended too soon. Because the Democrats did indeed continue slavery by other means and did actually suppressed black voting (the 15th Amendment, which no Democrat voted for in Congress, notwithstanding). The "reliance" on black prisoner labor is also true but it was on a much smaller scale than is suggested here, it was kind of like a pimple on the butt of a large Ku Klux Klan jackass.
I'll skip over the tedious paragraphs that cotton was an important part of the whole nation's economy then. Duh! Oh and slavery was important to the production of cotton. More duh! But what follows next in the opinion piece is the major sloppy legerdemain of this delusion. Behold.
Even today, one of America's most fundamental problems is that the alliance between the current form of Southern labor and the current form of New York finance is with us still. The five states that have no minimum wage laws of their own are in the South: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Southern-based corporations such as Wal-Mart are among the leading opponents of workers' right to organize, and as Wal-Mart has expanded into the North and West, so have the "right-to-work" statutes of Southern states been enacted by Republican governments in the Midwest.
Hold on there, kitty cat. That some states allow the "invisible hands" of the market to set the market price for labor, rather than bureaucrats or politicians setting it, is in no way comparable to slavery. That you don't have to join a union in order to get a job is also the opposite of slavery. The comparisons in this paragraph are not just idiotic but are through the looking glass opposites of reality. In a right to work state one is free to work without being forced by the government to join a union which will forcibly take part of the new member's wages and use that stolen money to support causes with which the new member disagrees. Remember the key word 'free' I used there. Where there is no state minimum wage one's erstwhile employer is likewise more free to offer prospective employees wages which their skills and work ethic support, which their value to the employer supports. And they remain free to insist on more, if their labor truly is worth more. I'm still using that word 'free' so that you can see how opposite slavery and right to work laws and market minimum wage setting are. But keep in mind that there is a federal minimum wage law so most of the complaint there is wholly wasted effort. Then the piece goes full Democrat delusional.
The Southernization of the Republican Party and the increasing domination of Wall Street's brand of shareholder capitalism over the nation's economic life have combined to erode both the income and the power of U.S. workers. Unions are anathema to Wall Street and the GOP. Federal regulations empowering consumers and employees are opposed by both.
I have written often about the awful Big Lie. The party of former slave owners would have you believe that other racist, Jim Crow law writing, KKK joining Democrats in the South (the very attackers of the Selma marchers) have, for no reason whatsoever, magically switched racial animi with the freedom loving, abolitionist, anti-lynching law writing, Civil Rights supporting Republicans. I feel I should push back a Big Lie so that it doesn't get established through un-rebutted repetition. (There are unfortunately those, the moronic true believer left, who already seem to believe it). Everyone should push back against this and every Big Lie. So here we are again. There was no switch for racist reasons. The modern Democrats, whose antebellum members exclusively owned slaves, so they know how it used to be done, have created a new form of political slavery on the metaphorical plantations of the Democrat run inner cities throughout our nation.
But the real bizarro world idea here is that the erosion of the income of the middle class in the past 9 years comes from southern Republicans and "shareholder capitalist" whoever they are. The erosion of the middle class income comes almost wholly from the implementation of Democrat supported economic policies which have, inter alia, driven some manufacturing overseas and which keeps wages low by importing tons of foreign workers eager to work for less than most Americans. Now the big finish.
Fueled by the mega-donations of the mega-rich, today's Republican Party is not just far from being the party of Lincoln: It's really the party of Jefferson Davis. It suppresses black voting; it opposes federal efforts to mitigate poverty; it objects to federal investment in infrastructure and education just as the antebellum South opposed internal improvements and rejected public education; it scorns compromise. It is nearly all white. It is the lineal descendant of Lee's army, and the descendants of Grant's have yet to subdue it.Most of the mega-rich are Democrats. It is an outrageous lie that photo ID laws suppress black voting. In fact, in states with such laws, minority voter turnout has increased. It remains straight up racist to insist that minorities are too incompetent to get a free photo ID. That is logically undeniable.
The Republican party opposes federal efforts to mitigate poverty because such efforts stretching back to Johnson's Great Society and continuing at the cost of nearly $23 Trillion (with a T) have abysmally failed. Indeed the Democrats idea of poverty mitigation is actually poverty prolongation and is part of the foundation for the metaphorical modern plantation system. Opposing the Democrats' bad ideas is something the Republicans are known for (when they aren't supporting their own bad ideas). The Republicans support the Tuskegee method of poverty eradication that Booker T. Washington created. Washington was a Republican. How is supporting black Republican ideas being part of the party of slavery supporting, Democrat Jeff Davis. There is no universe, even the bizarre one the Democrats delusionally think is real, in which that notion could possibly be true.
The Republicans do not oppose improvement to education; that's the Democrats' game. Keeping inner city schools horrible keeps poor uneducated blacks on the metaphorical plantation and merely throwing money at the problems supports a strong Democrat base, the public teacher unions. What we support, again, is freedom, the freedom to choose a better school, to attend a well run private school, for example, still on the public's dime.
I hope we scorn compromise (but I fear we too often cave) with the proven failures of Democrats' policies that have helped create the modern metaphorical plantation. Indeed, the Republican party is today less integrated than in former times. We have some work to do.
The lineal descendants of Lee's Army were 99% Democrats until the 80s when the stone, open racists of the Democrat party died out finally and the ever leftward movement of the Party of Jeff Davis drove the freedom loving, patriotic South to the Republicans, who had always been that way.
Sorry, I went so long but it was a target rich environment.
Labels: Big Lie: Southern Switch; Preventing Voter Fraud; Democrat Racism; Democrat Projection; Real History
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Taking People at their Word
So diamonds are 100% of the killer pollutant carbon, in a crystalline form. They are the very essence of carboniferous evil. So I'm offering any true believer in catastrophic, human-caused global warming who doesn't want any contact with the killer pollutant carbon to take their diamonds off their hands and put them in a safe place away from everyone (a safety deposit box in a little used vault nearby). I'll charge a very modest fee for this carbon sequestration.
Just doing what I can to save the planet.
Labels: Anthropogenic Global Warming; Carbon Pollution; Carbon Sequestration
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Bible Study
Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
Most people understand immediately that this is a 'judge not lest you be judged' warning (as we humans are all sinners, all fallen); but it's so much more. Most people get that it's a condemnation of hypocrisy. You notice another's peccadillos but you are blind to your own major flaws (sins). It is also simple triage, as is clear in the next verse:
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.But the part I'm most interested in is its condemnation of a misallocation of outrage.
They big piece of wood sticking in your eye is a big deal. The speck in your brother's eye is trivial. Stop kvetching about the trivial and save your limited resources of anger and outrage for the things that actually deserve that anger and outrage.
I've been involved in a heated (but written) argument with a friend from college, who I know is smarter than I am, about his support of condemnation of the recent state versions of the federal Restoration of Religious Freedom Act (RFRA), particularly the Indiana version. There are a great many things to be outraged about in our world; more things, I think, than we have the stamina to exert and maintain our outrage. So it would be wise to allocate our limited outrage resources to the most egregious things deserving outrage. In the world condition of homosexuals, the fact that devout Christians in America might be able to refuse to participate in any way in same sex marriage ceremonies and not face fines or the loss of their business though government action is a very slight harm to homosexuals. Being thrown off a tall building, or hanged or crushed by stones, as is happening in various Muslim nations under ISIS control (or under mainstream Sharia control) is a huge harm to homosexuals, the greatest harm one can do to another human. Speck versus beam.
But when I point this out to my college friend, he can't understand why I can't feel outraged about possible "inconvenience" discrimination here in America based on real religious belief despite the bad things happening elsewhere. This too is a speck beam problem. He can't see it accurately. That's the beam.
It's a good verse.
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One has to admire his hutzpah in taking a fossil fueled flight (probably on a private jet) to a conference that whines about "climate change"
(Irish Times) Former US vice-president Al Gore called for action on climate change yesterday, comparing denial of changing weather patterns to "sleepwalking towards the edge of the cliff".
Which is why he lives a big carbon footprint lifestyle and purchased a McMansion near the Pacific ocean in California.
Mr Gore, who was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his attempts to raise awareness of climate change, made the remarks at a keynote address at a Dublin conference exploring the links between climate change, hunger and poor nutrition.
"Even with glaring evidence [of extreme weather patterns] people still do not connect the dots of climate change," he told more than 350 delegates from 60 countries. "We have to win the conversation about climate change. When you hear denial, speak up."
He's kinda right: when you hear these New Climate Deniers whine about the weather, speak up, ask them for their scientific evidence, and then ask them how they've changed their own lives in accordance with their beliefs. Ask them why they think we're doomed from a .08C (.14F) increase in global temperature since 1997 and .28F (.16C) increase since 1990.
Oh, and ask Mr. Gore why he refuses to debate anyone on the issue.
He told delegates that the most significant challenge facing humankind was to prevent worse damage in relation to climate change and suggested that "a combination of scientific knowledge and traditional expertise … can make all the difference".
You can also ask Mr. Gore why, if this is the most significant challenge facing humankind, it seems that his only interest is in making quite a bit of money off of it and living a high flying lifestyle.
Meanwhile, the EU carbon market is continuing to collapse. Carbon markets are one of Gore's big pushes (because he has a financial interest in them).
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Capello plays down Germany rivalry
Fabio Capello is happy to cope with the hype of an England World Cup encounter with Germany.
The full extent of his side's failure to take their chances in Port Elizabeth last night became known a few hours later when Mesut Ozil scored the goal that ensured Germany finished top of Group D.
It set up a mouth-watering revival of a long-standing rivalry, and reignited memories of 1966, 1970 and 1990.
Both countries are sure to be obsessed about the outcome, with Franz Beckenbauer already stirring the pot by claiming England have been "stupid" in allowing themselves to end up in a more difficult section of the draw.
But for an outsider like Capello, the actual opponent was not as important as his team discovering their form again.
"For me, who we play is not important," he said.
"What was important was to rediscover our spirit and finish first or second.
"Now we are into a play-off - and I think we are ready."
Capello believes England are ready because they managed to turn yesterday's clash into something more akin to a Premier League game, rather than the pedestrian strolls that have gone before.
Both Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard were able to get forward with purpose and, after an initial slow start, James Milner excelled, delivering a succession of excellent crosses from his right-wing berth.
"The performance of the team was really important," said Capello.
"I saw the spirit we had lost in the games we played before."
For all the troubles of the previous days, the issues John Terry raised in public but was denied a chance to do so behind closed doors, for all the "big mistake" the Chelsea captain made, it seems a message got home.
It may have been the fairly simple realisation that England can only achieve their aims as a unit rather than unsettled individuals.
But without doubt, there was a common goal, and it ensured the problems of previous games were resolved.
"We saw the games we played, the first half against Algeria in particular, and we understood that was not a good way to go forward," said Capello.
"Training was really good all the time. It was focused and fast. We found the physicality that we have known before, the physicality that we know in the Premier League."
Reproducing Premier League form continually is Capello's target now.
The Italian has realised trying to engage in a slow, technical game is not the way for England to progress.
Better to adopt a quicker, more natural, style, accepting mistakes are inevitable but challenging opponents to keep pace.
They could however, do with being more clinical, if only to avoid the nervousness that scarred the final 15 minutes when Slovenia were hunting an equaliser that would have knocked England out.
"We created chances but we didn't score, so we had to suffer," lamented Capello.
"But that is normal at the World Cup."
It is hard to envisage Capello countenancing many changes, with only the central defensive slot alongside Terry up for grabs.
After a shaky beginning, Matthew Upson improved as the match went on and was involved in that desperate late scramble to keep Slovenia at bay.
The smart money must be on the recall of Jamie Carragher though.
Carragher missed yesterday's encounter through suspension but his greater experience is likely to be called for against opponents who can boast the attacking expertise of Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose, in addition to the youth of Ozil and Thomas Muller.
There could be a further defensive reinforcement on the way, if not for Sunday, then a potential quarter-final against either Argentina or Mexico in Cape Town on July 3 after Ledley King was spotted on the training ground this morning.
King suffered a groin injury during the early minutes of England's draw with the United States in Rustenburg on June 12, since when he has been consigned to gym work.
Admittedly, King did not do any contact work, and was restricted to an individual session, but even his appearance has to be taken as a positive sign.
Meanwhile, the England camp expect Wayne Rooney to be fit to face Germany.
Rooney has struggled to impose himself during the tournament so far and was substituted after taking a kick on the ankle he originally injured on Champions League duty for Manchester United against Bayern Munich in April.
However, the damage is not thought to be extensive and Rooney should be available for the weekend.
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- I made several marbled scarves today and the marbling gods decided to play
along. I even got the black to look black on the scarves. The other day
it came out grey. It shows up black on the paper, but for some reason, it
will look silvery grey sometimes on the scarves. The other color I have
trouble with is red - it will either look pink or orange part of the time.
I added a different brand of black to the cup I was using and used guar gum
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I found out about the guar gum from an Australian marbling friend. I found
it at the health food store and so far, it seems to be pretty reasonable.
One tablespoon of the dry powder makes a gallon of gell and it doesn't take
long to set up. I use a stick blender and mix it right in the gallon jars
that I use for gel and room temperature water.
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Here is Part II of Amber and James wedding for the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem NY – http://www.sobitartphotography.com/alhambra-ballroom-wedding-photographer-amber-james/
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Amber + James Part II
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James Nobles on June 27, 2011 1:20 pm Reply These pics are awesome. I'm almost in tears again. beautiful captions of beautiful moments.
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World Gourmet Summit 2012
Singapore's most prestigious gourmet festival returns this month
Although there's no shortage of culinary festivals in Singapore, none of these gastronomic gatherings come close to possessing the same level of prestige or history as World Gourmet Summit. Every year we eagerly anticipate the star-studded cast of chefs that grace what is arguably Singapore's most lauded gastronomic event.
Hot off the heels of Savour 2012, the biannual Restaurant Week, as well as Asian Masters and Chefs with Altitude, comes the 16th edition of the highly acclaimed festival, which is set to run from 23 April to 3 May 2012 with the theme "A Heritage of Flavours". As such, expect the festival's participating international chefs to present not just contemporary cuisine, but also traditional recipes with a modern twist.
"In this way, the World Gourmet Summit provides an authentic platform for cultural and culinary exchange between the festival's participating chefs and the Singapore public," says Peter A Knipp, the organizer of World Gourmet Series.
Citibank Gastronomic Jam Sessions
A new addition to World Gourmet Summit 2012 is the Citibank Gastronomic Jam Sessions, which will feature demonstrations of culinary techniques and trends by visiting masterchefs such as Marco Pierre White and Pedro Miguel, as well as local talents like Janice Wong and Ryan Clift.
Culinary Dinners by an International Star-Studded Ensemble
The World Gourmet Summit always attracts some of the world's most celebrated chefs, and this year, British culinary luminary Marco Pierre White will headline, presenting his cuisine at the Marco Pierre White Celebrity Chef Dinner at Grand Hyatt Singapore.
For a taste of the unusual, Russian chef Anatoly Komm, who's known for revitalizing Russian cuisine, will present a six-course menu of traditional Russian cuisine with a twist, using the latest molecular techniques, paired with wines from Indoguna, Russian sparkling wine and vodka. Rising star, Danish chef Ronny Emborg will also show off his culinary finesse in molecular and nouvelle cuisines at a special themed dinner.
Wine Master Classes
No gourmet dinner is complete unless accompanied by the finest of vintages, and the World Gourmet Summit 2012 will present exquisite vintages from the wineries like Champagne Penet-Chardonnet (Champagne, France), Domaine Paul Jaboulet Aîné (Rhone, France) and Penfolds (Magill, South Australia) in a series of wine master classes and vintner dinners conducted by international winemakers and local and master chefs respectively.
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FDIC wraps up receivership of Waterford Village Bank
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is ending its receivership of Waterford Village Bank, a move that signals it's no longer on the hook for losses stemming from the now-defunct bank's "problem" loans.
A notice published this month in the Federal Register announces the planned termination of the FDIC's four-year-old receivership and payment of "final dividend(s)" from the federal agency to creditors.
Evans Bank N.A., which acquired Waterford Village Bank's assets and deposits from the FDIC following the July 24, 2009, shutdown of Waterford, is now set to receive that payment.
The amount of the settlement is scheduled to be disclosed later this week by Evans Bank in a regulatory filing, Evans Bank president and CEO David Nasca said today.
"(The FDIC) negotiated a settlement to buy us out of the liabilities (related to the problem loans)," Nasca said. "They are no longer responsible for those losses."
Waterford Village Bank, a single-branch de novo operation, opened in 2007 and occupied a brand-new building on Main Street in Clarence. It was the first new commercial community bank to open in Western New York in 70 years.
Two years later, it was shut down by the state banking department for being undercapitalized. The FDIC was named receiver, while Evans Bank purchased the bank's deposits and assets, including the new office building.
As receiver, the FDIC agreed to reimburse Evans Bank up to 80 percent on bad loans from Waterford Village Bank's portfolio.
Nasca said it was the federal agency that first approached Evans Bank about negotiating a buyout of troubled loans. The two parties reached an agreement in early July, he said.
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CHESTER, Pa. (AP)—Ricardo Clark scored in the 53rd minute to lift the Houston Dynamo to a 1-0 win over the Philadelphia Union on Saturday night.
The Dynamo (11-10-7) snapped a four-game winless streak and moved past Union (10-10-9) in the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
"It was huge for us," said Houston's Brad Davis, who got his team-leading seventh assist on the score. "Things haven't been going the way we've wanted them to lately. It may not have been pretty, but everyone put everything they had into this game tonight. It's important for us to get three points and jump up in the standings."
Clark flicked a header off a free kick from Davis for his third goal of the season. Tally Hall got his seventh shutout of the season without having to make a save.
"We got a set piece and fortunately I was able to put a good ball in," Davis said. "Guys made good runs to get on the end of it. Sometimes on the road you just get a couple opportunities and we were able to score that one. It feels good."
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(b) Love and excitement.
(c) Confidence and belief in his mission.
(d) Fear and doubt.
2. What does Santiago tell the Alchemist that his heart is afraid of?
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(b) Suffering and losing what it has won.
(c) Fulfilling his destiny.
(d) Never finding love.
3. In Part 6, how long are the alchemist and Santiago given to prove that Santiago really does have the ability that the Alchemist claims he does?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 days.
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(b) Philosopher's stone.
(c) Elixir of Life.
(d) Soul of the World.
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(d) Date palms.
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I don't believe he is the "antichrist" because in the Bible it say the "antichrist" would bring world peace and that everyone would marvel at his works. Which is pretty much the opposite of what obama has done. Now as far as "the false prophet" is concerned, he is a much better canidate because it says in the Bible that "the false prophet" would rise to powerin the last days and play a important role in having mandkind to worship the "antichrist"!
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"biblical narratives of the end-times and the Islamic narratives do not end with the Antichrist and the Mahdi. If it were so, then it might be easier to dismiss the many similarities as mere coincidence. The parallels however, do not stop with the Antichrist and the Mahdi, but extend again quite clearly, into the person of the man biblically known as the False Prophet and the man known in Islam as Isa al-Masih – Jesus the Messiah."
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Nothing i said there had any comparison to any one or thing. So i havent a clue where your coming up with this, it was simply my opiion that hes probably not the antichrist but could possibly be the false prophet. And btw muslim Jesus? Rofl!!! Jesus Christ of nazareth was jewish thank you vey much!
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Australian Adam Byrnes has pulled on a few different rugby jerseys over the years, but a red Russian one has the most significance.
The 30-year-old lock made his Russian debut in their final Rugby World Cup warm-up game against Gloucester two weeks ago.
Byrnes qualifies for Russia on his mother's side, with his grandparents moving from the Soviet Union to Australia soon after World War II.
Byrnes arrives in New Plymouth today with the Russian team ahead of their first game in the tournament – against the United States at Stadium Taranaki on Thursday night.
"I'm very proud to represent Russia in the Rugby World Cup," he said.
"My passion has been rugby since I was a young boy ... I was never small. I played high school basketball and represented my state, but turned down a basketball scholarship to college in the States to concentrate on rugby."
Byrnes was captain of both the senior basketball and rugby teams at his high school – Newington College – in Sydney.
Former Wallabies captains Nick Farr-Jones and Phil Kearns attended Newington College.
On leaving school, Byrnes enrolled to study law.
"In my first year with the Eastern Suburbs Rugby Union Club, I won the best colt player award. I then went straight into first grade and we won the Sydney Premiership that year."
What followed was an offer to play for Narbonne in France.
"I was about to sign that contract when I received the offer from Leinster in Ireland. I ended up signing with them and had two wonderful years in Ireland playing in both the Magners League and Heineken Cup competitions."
Byrnes said he completed one further law exam in Dublin, but then decided law was not his future – unlike his father and brother – finishing his studies with a business management diploma and a mastery of business.
Turning down a contract with English club Bath, Byrnes returned to Australia to link up with the Reds. He had two years with Queensland and played for the Melbourne Rebels this year.
Byrnes said his mother came to Australia in 1949 with her parents, grandmother and two sisters.
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"Up until I started school, I spoke only Russian but I have lost most of it in the last 25 years. My brother has retained more of it than me, in fact he enrolled in a university course last year to study Russian," he said.
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How to reach White Peaks: Take overnight train (Ranikhet Express) from Delhi and reach Kathgodam by 4 AM. It is a 2 hour journey from Kathgodam to Gagar via Bhowali.
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