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Fox News host Mike Huckabee advised Republicans to "grow a spine" and oppose marriage equality, blasting court rulings overturning same-sex marriage bans as "the betrayal of our Constitution."
During an October 7 interview with the anti-gay American Family Association's radio program, Huckabee said that he's "utterly exasperation with Republicans ... who have abdicated on this issue," and warned that he might leave the Republican Party and become an independent if the GOP stops fighting marriage equality. The former governor of Arkansas is reportedly considering a run for president in 2016.
Huckabee reiterated his criticism in the opening monologue of his October 11 Fox News show. Huckabee denounced the court decisions that led to same-sex marriage becoming legal in several more states, emphasizing that judges overruled "the collective votes of the people themselves" in a "betrayal of our Constitution." He concluded that he is "utterly disgusted" with Republican governors and other officials that complied with the court orders overturning same-sex marriage bans, arguing that they should "[g]row a spine, show a modicum of knowledge about the way we govern ourselves, and lead, follow, or get the heck out of the way."
Fox News host Megyn Kelly said that Glenn Beck accurately predicted the formation of a caliphate in the Middle East, though in reality the actions of the terrorist group known as the Islamic State fall far short of Beck's 2011 prediction that was ridiculed by his fellow conservatives at the time.
In reaction to the protests against Egypt's former dictator Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, Beck theorized on his since-canceled Fox show that one of the results of this and other protests in Arab and North African countries would be "a Muslim caliphate that controls the Mideast and parts of Europe." On June 29 of this year, the Islamic State's leaders formally declared that they had formed a caliphate after seizing control of parts of Syria and Iraq.
On Wednesday, Kelly decided that recent developments had vindicated Beck's old claims, saying: "When ISIS became a big story earlier this year a number of people were reminded of a prediction by Glenn Beck. Beck had long argued that radical Islamists were pursuing a dream of establishing a caliphate in the Middle East, a country unto themselves. And that is exactly what ISIS has managed to do." She then interviewed him about how he feels about his claim now:
But reporter David Weigel, who was prodded by conservatives earlier this year about Beck's claims of a caliphate, explained on his former Slate blog that the recent developments show that Beck was very wrong:
[T]he gulf between what Glenn Beck was talking about and what the 10,000 or so murderers of ISIS are able to accomplish is so large as to be comical. Not that Beck's initial monologue wasn't comical.
"You have Somalia and Iran already in green," said Beck. "Now, let's add Tunisia. Former Tunisian government was considered one of the most secular and corrupt governments in the Arab world. The poor and the angry demanded changes. Most dangerous scenario is that radical Muslims seize power and put Sharia law into place."
That was a dangerous-sounding scenario. It did not happen. Tunisia is currently run by technocrats who were handed power after an Islamist party failed to govern effectively. Beck went on to worry that the Muslim Brotherhood would take power in Egypt, and that the result "could very easily be 1979 Iran." The Muslim Brotherhood did win an election, before being overthrown in popular protests and being replaced by a new military government. Not quite 1979 Iran.
Seriously, just read Beck's monologue. The host speculated that the weak economies of Spain and Portugal and the Muslim populations of France and Great Britain left them exposed to some kind of Shariah revolution. This was what "caliphate" meant--not a gang of killers terrorizing parts of Iraq, but a green wave spreading across the world that the early Muslims almost conquered.
Beck's prediction was also dismissed when he made it, particularly by his fellow conservatives. Then-Fox News contributor Bill Kristol wrote that Beck was "marginalizing himself" through his "hysteria" about the protests in Egypt, likening him to the conspiracy-minded John Birch Society. National Review Online editor Rich Lowry endorsed Kristol's "well-deserved shot at Glenn Beck's latest wild theorizing." And the Wall Street Journal's John Fund described Beck's claims as "apocalyptic conspiracy terms" that went too far.
Fox News host Eric Bolling warned America that "liberalism is a dangerous virus," echoing the kind of dangerous rhetoric that right-wing media figures like Glenn Beck have spread for years.
In an October 6 FoxNews.com opinion piece, Bolling wrote that while people are concerned about Ebola, the virus of liberalism is already here:
Wake up, America!
While everyone is up in arms about Ebola, and we must remain vigilant and fight it with all we have, there is another virus that has already taken hold of Americans in every state: liberalism.
Truth, transparency, freedom and liberty. The flag, "Under God" patriotism have all been tossed out the window.
They are being replaced by "everybody gets a trophy," "share the wealth," "government knows what's best for your business," your family and even what should go on in your bedroom.
Be careful, America. Liberalism is a dangerous virus.
Wake up, America. Liberalism is a virus, too.
Try not to catch it. And if you do, for goodness sake, don't spread it!!
Bolling's eliminationist rhetoric -- the belief that the liberals are a disease weakening America -- has been echoed by far right-wing media figures for years. In 2009, actor turned WND columnist Pat Boone compared liberalism to "A deadly virus ... loosed throughout our system." Throughout 2010, on his radio show, on Fox News, and even at his CPAC keynote speech, former Fox News host Glenn Beck called progressivism "the poison that's killing our Constitution" that "we've got to irradiate;" a "disease in the republic;" and "the cancer in America." And in 2012, right-wing columnist David Limbaugh likened liberalism to "a metastatic cancer."
Bolling wasn't the only conservative media figure to compare liberals to a disease on Monday. Right-wing author, filmmaker, and conservative media darling Dinesh D'Souza compared President Obama's father to Ebola, asking "which is a more dangerous infection?"
Cable and broadcast television news networks have repeatedly hosted former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino to comment on Secret Service security lapses, but have often failed to disclose that he is a Republican congressional candidate.
After reports of Secret Service lapses were uncovered by The Washington Post, Bongino has appeared on cable and broadcast news networks more than a dozen times to discuss the security failures. In several of these appearances, the networks did not disclose Bongino's campaign as a Republican for Maryland's 6th Congressional District, which was announced nearly a year ago.
Bongino was featured during the October 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, introduced only as a former Secret Service agent and author of a book based on his career. He used his appearance to criticize the White House staff and management. Bongino also briefly appeared during the October 1 edition of NBC's Nightly News, identified only as a former Secret Service agent, to comment on the resignation of Julia Pierson as director of the Secret Service. An October 1 appearance on MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart also failed to disclose his congressional campaign, and his status as a congressional candidate was also neglected during his September 30 appearance on CNN Newsroom while discussing the congressional hearing on the agency's recent failures.
Fox News has repeatedly allowed political candidates to work as on-air personalities and CNN's failure to disclose former host Newt Gingrich's conflicts of interest recently helped spur the Society of Professional Journalists to overhaul its transparency provisions.
Fox News personalities labeled President Obama's address during the United Nations General Assembly a continuation of his "apology tour," a repeatedly debunked right-wing narrative started during Obama's first year in office.
Fox News joined at least five networks that announced they would stop or minimize airing a video released by TMZ showing former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice striking his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. On the same day, Fox's The Five broke that promise by airing the video twice during the program.
The Associated Press reported on Thursday (emphasis added):
At least six television networks said Thursday they plan to stop or minimize airings of video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice striking his then-fiancee and knocking her unconscious, footage that has called into question how the NFL disciplines players involved in domestic violence.
The move comes after the video from a casino elevator showing Janay Palmer crumbling to the floor after a punch has already been seen many times on TV since TMZ released it Monday. The news value of the video also is decreasing over time.
ESPN, CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox News Channel and Fox Sports all said Thursday they would no longer show the video unless there are compelling news reasons to bring it back.
"The video has been seen enough for viewers to clearly know what happened, and make their own judgments about what should happen next," said Michael Clemente, executive vice president at Fox News. "Our judgment is that continuing to show it is simply overdoing it for shock value, and not for journalistic reasons."
During the 7 a.m. EDT news hour on Tuesday, the video clip aired 37 times on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, according to a count by Media Matters for America. In addition, the networks aired an old video showing Palmer outside of the elevator nine times, the group said.
Fox News' The Five broke Clemente's promise on the same day by playing the video twice, the second time in slow-motion:
Fox News has come under criticism following the release of the video for host Brian Kilmeade's inappropriate joke about the serious incident and the network's handling of the outrage that followed.
UPDATE: Fox News' Special Report aired the video during a report on the NFL launching an investigation into how the league handled the incident and when it received the video. Watch:
A Republican activist, attorney, and key player in the Benghazi hoax accused a former congressional staffer of harassing Benghazi eyewitnesses during congressional testimonies before going to work for Hillary Clinton -- but the staffer in question actually left Congress months before the interviews of those eyewitnesses took place. The false claim is just the latest in a long line of fictions from the Benghazi hoaxster, who has been discredited by Republicans members of the House Intelligence Committee and Benghazi CIA contractors alike.
Victoria Toensing appeared on the September 9 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends to aid the network in reviving the myth of a "stand down" order in Benghazi. Going even further, Toensing claimed that Michael Allen, former chief of staff for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, orchestrated the harassment of three CIA contractors giving their eyewitness testimony on the Benghazi attacks before Congress, even speculating that Allen purposefully prohibited the Committee from getting answers before leaving to join a "Hillary organization":
STEVE DOOCY (co-host): When these three operators and the others came back and they testified behind closed doors to the House Intel Committee, I understand they were harassed by the House Intel Committee that we thought were trying to get all the answers. What was up with that?
TOENSING: Republicans. And they were told, they were accused that they were not telling the truth. They were threatened with "the committee is not going to pay your travel expenses," which committees always do for witnesses who come in from out of town, "because you're writing a book and you're going to make money, and by the way, you shouldn't be writing a book."
Now you say why would that happen with the Republican-dominated House Intelligence Committee? Well, that chief of staff, the head of that staff that harassed these three brave men, a few months later went to work for Beacon Global Strategies. That is a Hillary organization.
Fox News exploited witnesses to the Benghazi attacks to further its Benghazi hoax just days before a GOP-led select committee holds its first public hearing, even though these witnesses were previously interviewed in congressional investigations that months ago debunked claims made during the Fox News Reporting: 13 Hours at Benghazi special.
The September 5 Fox special featured interviews with three CIA security contractors who were present in Benghazi during the September 2012 attacks, and aimed to answer "Whether or not military assistance was requested by the security team and whether orders from above hindered their response to the violence that claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans." The chairman of the Benghazi Select Committee already took notice of the Fox program and used it to justify the establishment of his committee.
The witnesses on Fox mentioned that they requested the support of combat aircraft and insisted, contrary to multiple independent and congressional reports, that they were told to "stand down" by the chief of the CIA base in Benghazi. They later claimed that if there had been no delay, Ambassador Stevens would still be alive:
What Fox failed to mention was that the CIA officers and contractors present in Libya during the attacks were previously interviewed by Congress in private testimony before a House intelligence subcommittee. This testimony destroyed the myths that anyone had been ordered to "stand down" and that a speedier response would have saved more lives.
A December 2013 Associated Press report on this testimony cited Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), "who heads a House intelligence subcommittee that interviewed the employees," to explain that the CIA personnel were fully aware there would be no air support:
He explained that the lack of air support was clear to all CIA employees working in Libya because of a 2011 CIA memorandum sent to employees after NATO forces ended their mission in support of the Libyan revolution.
One contractor testified that he shouted repeatedly over the agency's radio system to his CIA security boss that they should request combat aircraft. But the security chief explained to lawmakers that he ignored his subordinate's demands because he said he knew that no combat aircraft were available for such a mission, Westmoreland said.
The testimony revealed that there was a delay in the CIA response team departing to the aid of those under attack at the diplomatic facility in an attempt to round up additional support for them from a local Libyan militia, and that "[s]ome CIA security contractors disagreed with their bosses and wanted to move more quickly." Westmoreland told AP that "he believes this disagreement was the source of allegations that the CIA ordered security personnel to 'stand down' and not help the people inside the diplomatic mission."
The full report from the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee ultimately found that "There was no 'stand-down order' given to American personnel attempting to offer assistance that evening," according to Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), a member of the committee. The Senate Intelligence Committee and independent Accountability Review Board also found that no orders from above obstructed the rescue operation, despite the suggestion by Fox that this occurred.
The AP report also said of the testimony by the CIA officers and contractors present in Libya during the attack:
None of those who testified said a quicker response would have saved the lives of Stevens and communications specialist Sean Smith at the temporary diplomatic facility.
The statements made by the CIA contractors in this Fox special are ultimately old news and don't match up with their testimony in a congressional investigation that debunked many of the network's narratives about the attacks.
As Fox News continues the Benghazi Hoax, right-wing media continue to lap it up.
Fox News' upcoming special report on Benghazi, which examines questions that have already been answered repeatedly by multiple congressional and independent investigations, is being used by Benghazi Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to justify the establishment of his redundant select committee.
The special, titled "13 Hours at Benghazi" and hosted by Special Report's Bret Baier on September 5, is slated to explore "Whether or not military assistance was requested by the security team and whether orders from above hindered their response to the violence that claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans." A Special Report segment teased the special by highlighting the reaction of congressional lawmakers including Benghazi Select Committee Chair Gowdy, who said in a press release:
[I]n response to recent reports from security personnel on the ground in Benghazi:
"The Committee has heard of these concerns and they go to the heart of why Congress established this Committee--to determine all of the facts of what happened in Benghazi before, during and after the terrorist attack that day. We welcome the opportunity, and expect, to talk to personnel who were on the ground in Benghazi, their superiors, and anyone with relevant information related to the Benghazi terrorist attack. There are still facts to learn about Benghazi and information that needs to be explained in greater detail to the American people. And this Committee will do just that."
As the Daily Beast's Eli Lake explained, on the night of the attacks there was a 23-minute delay between the initial distress call from the diplomatic facility in Benghazi and when the CIA contractors from the nearby CIA Annex departed to rescue the Americans there. Despite suggestions from some in the intelligence community that this delay hindered their rescue effort, repeated investigations found no evidence that the CIA operatives were delayed by "orders from above," as Fox's announcement suggests.
Washington Post columnist George Will deepened his ethically challenged connections to big-money conservative groups by participating in an Americans for Prosperity summit where prominent Republican presidential hopefuls made their pitch to major donors.
Will's attendance at the Koch-backed group's annual convention comes after he spent months promoting Koch-backed candidates for public offices and advancing Koch-backed policy issues in his syndicated column.
On August 31, Politico reported that Will was part of an "exclusive group of major donors and VIPs" who "dined privately" at AFP's eighth annual Defending the American Dream summit. According to Politico, the summit "has become an increasingly important stop for aspiring GOP presidential candidates." In previous years, Will has also spoken at the summit and been given AFP's highest honor, the George Washington Award.
Will's cozy relationship with AFP has not been disclosed in any of his recent columns promoting key Republican candidates for Congress or governorships, who have benefited from AFP's ad spending. Using his platform at The Washington Post, Will has promoted Michigan Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land, suggesting that she is "the GOP's best answer to the so-called war on women" and contrasting her with Sandra Fluke, whom he smeared as "a professional victim and virtuoso whiner." Will argued that by electing Land, Michigan voters would be able "to show what they think of 'war on women' hysterics as a substitute for thought." Like Will, AFP supports Land and, as Will noted, has already spent $5 million on her behalf. Will did not note his connections to the group.
Will has similarly promoted North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis' candidacy for the Senate, parroting his anti-Obamacare campaign advertisements in a May 30 column. Will defended Tillis against charges that he is an "establishment" moderate by praising his conservative credentials: "Tillis has been an enthusiastic enactor and implementer of the conservatism that North Carolinians voted for." Will noted that AFP has spent $8 million on advertising attacking Tillis' opponent, Democrat Kay Hagan. Charles Koch and his family have also maxed out their contributions to Tillis, and he received a $5,000 donation from the Koch Industries PAC.
Will has profiled Republican Bruce Rauner, who is running to be governor of Illinois, framing the election as a choice between Rauner's push for term limits and his "vows to change the state's fundamental affliction --its political culture" and "the acceleration of stagnation" under the Democratic incumbent, Pat Quinn. AFP has spent at least $120,000 attacking Quinn.
Will also supported the candidacy of Monica Wehby in Oregon. In a July 25 column, he argued that since she has spent 17 years as a pediatric neurosurgeon, "She probably can cope with the strains of legislative life." He cited her "two X chromosomes," opposition to abortion rights, and support of marriage equality to claim she "complicates the Democratic Party's continuing accusation that Republicans wage 'war on women.' " Will also suggested that Wehby isn't too extreme for Oregon because she "won 50 percent of the vote in a five-candidate primary in which her rivals accused her of moderation." The Koch-affiliated group Freedom Partners, which Politico called the "Koch brothers' secret bank," plans to spend $3.6 million on Wehby's race.
Organizations that receive large amounts of Koch funding have also been prominently mentioned in Will's recent columns. Will twice hyped the work of the Institute for Justice, which relied on Charles Koch for seed money, and has since received more than $1 million in money from Koch-backed groups. Will dedicated another column to pushing the Goldwater Institute's effort to create a balanced budget amendment. The group has received more than $1.6 million in donations from Koch-affiliated groups.
Will also offered praise for U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa, who halted a criminal investigation into possible illegal coordination between the campaign of Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) and outside groups during a recall election. Walker has benefited from more than $10 million in spending by AFP.
Will has previously had problems with nondisclosure. Will has been criticized by media ethicists and veteran journalists for citing groups that are funded by the Bradley Foundation without disclosing that he is a paid board member of that organization. Tom Fiedler, dean of Boston University's College of Communications and former Miami Herald editor, stated that Will's acceptance of an award from the Bradley Foundation "signaled his alignment with its philosophy." Washington and Lee University journalism professor Ed Wasserman said that Will's failure to disclose the relationship was "[o]f course" a problem, explaining that even though Will is known to be a conservative, readers should know if Will's commentary is "independently arrived at rather than a reflection of a nexus of relationships and entanglements that he is embedded in."


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Much of the new vocabulary appears online long before it will make it into books. Take geek. It was not till 2003 that O.E.D.3 caught up with the main modern sense: "a person who is extremely devoted to and knowledgeable about computers or related technology." Internet chitchat provides the earliest known reference, a posting to a Usenet newsgroup, net.jokes, on Feb. 20, 1984.
felch, v.coarse slang (orig. U.S.).[Origin unknown.] trans. Usually of a male homosexual: to stimulate the anus of (a sexual partner) orally; spec. to remove orally semen ejaculated into the anus of (a partner). Also: to insert a small animal, esp. a gerbil, into the anus of (a partner) for sexual stimulation.1972 R. A. FARRELL in Anthropol. Linguistics 14 101 Feltch, to use one's mouth or tongue on the anus of his partner; anilingus. 1985 Nat. Lampoon Sept. 15 What is your definition of 'kinky'?.. Felching [a prominent politician]. 1997 N. KELLY in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) xviii. 293 A Canadian body-builder..very kindly offered to 'felch' [him] in the gents' toilets.felching n.1989 Re: How can you eat Unwashed Pussy? in alt.sex (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov., The story also talks about sucking on the clitoris… But..I want to read about *felching! 1993 Private Eye 10 Sept. 17/1 A felching session had gone seriously wrong. 'I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Faggot, our gerbil, in… I tried to retrieve Faggot but he wouldn't come out again.' 1998 Village Voice (Nexis) 14 July 10 'A Dutch oven'..double vaginal, double anal… And then there's just your regular old felching.
felch v. [1970s+] (mainly gay) to lick out the semen from the anus of someone who has just been sodomized; the semen is then often spat into the partner's mouth (cf. AUSTRALIAN n.). [? echoic; but note suggestion by the linguist Laura Wright (in personal correspondence): '"Filch" [FILCH v.] originally meant to hook something out of something with a stick according to the OED and in the Bridewell it always involves the hooking of something with a stick covered in sticky lime, so when I heard about modem 'felch' […] I figured that the two variants have a common source, and the usual P-DE meaning has lost the sense of hooking and kept the sense of stealing']felcher n. [1970s] (gay) a man who ejaculates into another man's rectum and then eats all of what he has deposited there. [FELCH v.] felch queen n. [1970s+] a male homosexual who is stimulated by felching. [FELCH v.+QUEEN n.2(1)/QUEEN sfx (2)]—Jonathon Green, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Cassell, 2006, p. 496
OK, since we didn't get in any trouble with Snatch and Jiz, and a couple of these other comics, I was partying one night with Crumb, Wilson and these other guys. And [S. Clay] Wilson mentioned to me, he says, "I was talking to Ken Weaver and he had this real interesting word." I said what, "what it?" A word called "felch." I said, "what does that mean?" He said, "it is a real old term and it means orally withdrawing semen from someone's lower digestive track after having anal sex." I said, "there's a word for something like that?" That's incredible that not only is there a word like that, but it has a provenance. Hell yeah, we're going to do a felch comic. So I talked to Crumb, "yeah we're going to do a felch comic."
FELCHINGExcuse me!!!—my bum did belchand you just cameI felt it squelchQuick withdraw and give me your lips. NO! Not my mouth, below the hips! Oh yes! Let's wait for a belch wait wait it's coming, now Felch!
MARY: Okay, how do you guys know each other? LLOYD: We used to be best friends. HARRY: Yeah, until he turned into a back-stabber. LLOYD: Me, a back-stabber? You've got a lot of nerve. You knew I was crazy about her! HARRY: Yeah, and you knew I was crazy about Fraida Felcher, and that didn't stop you, did it? LLOYD: What do you mean? HARRY: "What do you mean?" Don't deny it, Lloyd. Fraida told me the whole sleazy story, Mr. French Tickler! I guess we both learned a little something about each other today. LLOYD: You said it, pal. Maybe we're not as good of friends as we thought. I mean, if one beautiful girl can rip us apart, then maybe our friendship isn't worth a damn. Maybe we should call it quits right now. HARRY: You just tell me where to sign, bud. LLOYD: Right on my ass after you kiss it! HARRY: You kiss mine! Both cheeks, both lips, right here!—Dumb and Dumber, 1994
Gere refuses to answer on the record whether he's gay; he feels that to do so would cast an implicit value judgment on others. "It doesn't matter if you're straight or gay," he argues. "Cosmically, there's nothing wrong with being heterosexual, homosexual, or omnisexual—with being anything, as long as you don't hurt anybody, yourself included. The accusation is meaningless, and whether it's true or false is no one's business. I know who I am; what difference does it make what anyone thinks, if I live truthfully and honestly and with as open a heart as I can? This kind of silly prejudice cripples everyone—the people who think them and the people they lay their judgments on. It's insane. It's schoolyard stuff, real kid stuff. But if you start to take a defensive mode and say, 'No, I'm not,' it gives credence to the idea that there's something wrong with it, and there's nothing wrong with it. I have no interest in putting myself in a category. My best friends in the world are gay, and I also have heterosexual friends. Why would I ever put myself in a category that would lay judgment on friends of mine?" He sighs, rolling his eyes. "If I was a leopard, and someone came up and started screaming, 'You're a cow!'—is a leopard going to be uptight about this? He knows he's a leoplard. He's going to think, What silly people."
"The Colo-Rectal Mouse"A friend of a friend knows someone working at a local hospital who supposedly was present when a homosexual man came into the emergency room to have a live mouse or other small creature removed from his rectum. He had used a greased plastic tube to insert the mouse, having heard that this would give him the ultimate sexual thrill. The string he had tied to the mouse broke when the man tried to pull it out. Sometimes a mouse skeleton is stuck inside the man, or the creature is a small lizard whose tail broke off when the man tried to pull it back out. This story appeared in 1984 and quickly spread across the United States. The animal came to be referred to consistently as a gerbil in subsequent years when this legend was applied specifically to several male media figures who were thought by the public to be homosexual.See also Gerbiling References: [Jan Harold Brunvand,] [The] Mexican Pet: [More "new" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites], [W. W. Norton & Company, 1988,] 78-79GerbilingThe sketchy " Colo-Rectal Mouse" rumor of 1984 quickly evolved into a story packed with circumstantial details about an assumed gay male celebrity who supposedly gratified himself by inserting a live gerbil into his rectum. His behavior was allegedly discovered when he came to a hospital emergency room to have a stuck rodent removed. This homophobic (and sometimes AIDS-tinged) story was attached to a TV broadcaster in Philadelphia and to a major film star in Hollywood, among several other prominent men, but it is implied in all versions that "gerbiling" is a standard practice among many homosexual males. Misinformation is rife in the accounts of gerbiling. Not only is there the usual vagueness about hospital treatment of the supposed perpetrators; some writers have implied that published medical records support the claim that gerbiling is an actual practice. Searches of medical databases have found no such reports. Other people point to the "proof" that gerbils cannot be found in Southern California pet shops, but the reason for this is not that homosexuals have cornered the gerbil market, or to protect the animals from perverted misuse, but simply to protect the state's ecology and agriculture; gerbils, which multiply rapidly, are illegal to keep or sell in that state. A recent account of a supposed gerbiling accident treated in a Salt Lake City hospital was completely fictional, even to the point of naming a nonexistent local health-care facility.See also "The Colo-Rectal Mouse" References: Norine Dresser, "The Case of the Missing Gerbil", Western Folklore 58 (1994): 229-242; Becky Vorpagel, "A Rodent by Any Other Name: Implications of a Contemporary Legend," International Folklore Review 6 (1988): 53-57.
The narrow stair wound up to the next floor and ended up at a small landing and a white-painted door, which was locked. Stevenson found his flashlight and looked at the lock. 'Banham,' he said. Then he got the keys out that we had taken. I looked at them in the palm of his hand. 'Not one to fit,' he said. I said: 'That's easy. Give us a hand. One, two, three, both of us, OK?' 'When you're ready.' We took all the space across the landing and gave the wood our right shoulders. It shuddered: it wasn't the kind of door constructed to answer back. 'Again,' I said, and this time the lock did our work for us, tearing the mouth it was bolted into out of the jamb so that the door fell back open. 'That's better,' I said, 'let's have some light on the place.' Everything was in pitch darkness. But before he moved, Stevenson stood still on the threshold and said: 'Wait. Do you smell something?' I paused to breathe in and then said: 'Do you mean something live? Is that what you're saying?' I added: 'Yes.' Something small moved in the darkness. 'Don't you smell straw?' said Stevenson. 'And vermin?' 'Light,' I said. We found a switch with our flashlights and lit the place. It was full of cages. 'Let's see what's in the cages,' I said. Roughly there had been silence in the place until we lit it; now there was an increasingly flourishing rattle in the straw, a rustle of little bodies. Aroused by the light, things darted about trying to bury themselves in the deftness of their panic, fleeing the light, trying to hide as prisoners in a cell do in their bedding when the people come for them. 'Why,' I said, 'they're little rats.' 'Nearly,' said Stevenson, 'but not quite.' 'What are they, then?' He said: 'They are African by origin, I think they're gerbils, let's see.' The cages opened from the top; Stevenson opened one and grabbed an occupant. He held it by its tail; it seemed to die; it drooped, almost motionless. 'What does it mean?' I said to Stevenson. 'It replaces a hard-on. It's a tunneller, it goes in where I think it does, it nibbles, it excites, it panics, it dies, and then you pull it out again by the string that you've attached to its tail. Of course you have to shave its skin off first so it gives the same nice smooth feel as a prick.' 'Why breed them here? I said, 'on top of a nightclub?' 'Don't be innocent,' said Stevenson, 'this is the upstairs.' 'How do you read it?' I said. 'I read money and desire.' 'Explain,' I said. 'Tell me everything you know and think.' 'When it comes to AIDS,' said Stevenson, 'you're rich, but you've got it—you're loaded with money, but you're infected, you want to fuck still, but with whom?' He put the gerbil down and said: 'There's money in that. You know what organized crime is—it's supply and demand.' 'And Suarez?' 'Well, she was bound to get it,' said Stevenson, 'wasn't she?' I said: 'Well, that's murder and you don't even die.' 'Stevenson said: 'That's a lot of people.' 'I know,' I said. Stevenson said: 'My dad was a miner in the north; he died in an explosion a thousand yards down, Geordie main Colliery.' 'Do you understand that poor girl Suarez,' I said, 'watching herself die in her mirror day by day?' 'Oh yes,' said Stevenson, 'absolutely. You go out to work for next to nothing, and you run a mortal risk.' 'Poor darling,' I said, 'that's just what I can't stand, you see?' 'Ah, stop it,' Stevenson said, 'stop it, will you?' 'How can we stop it, the way we see our work, though?' I said. 'What? Just let it all slide?' I said: 'My father had a little corner shop, drapery, South London; yet he was in the Engineers during the war and defused mines on the beaches, and I'm very proud of him, glad to be his son. He told me once: "They made me an officer so that I could ask the sergeant for the right tools to go up to it." I said: "Weren't you frightened, Dad?" He said: "All the time, but you reckoned you were protected—it was important what we were doing. I wouldn't have had our boys treading on one of them."' 'All right,' said Stevenson, so what do we do now?'—Derek Raymond, I was Dora Suarez, Ballantine Books, 1990, pp. 139-142
Writing Suarez broke me; I see that now. I don't mean that it broke me physically or mentally, although it came near to doing both. But it changed me; it separated out for ever what was living and what was dead. I realised it was doing so at the time, but not fully, and not how, and not at once. […] I asked for it, though. If you go down into the darkness, you must expect it to leave traces on you coming up—if you do come up. It's like working in a mine; you hope that hands you can't see know what they're doing and will pull you through. I know I wondered half way through Suarez if I would get through—I mean, if my reason would get through. For the trouble with an experience like Suarez is that you become what you're writing, passing like Alice through the language into the situation.
Sounds like an urban legend to me. Besides, that's not what felching is. Felching is the oral removal of semen from the anus.
Most sexually active gay men give or receive anal sex, while a small number engage in more unusual, but well documented, practices such as 'fisting' and 'felching'. Fisting involves inserting the clenched hand into the anus. Perforation of the rectum can occur. Felching is the practice of inserting a live animal into the anus. Gay males in America have put gerbils in a plastic bag and then, using the cardboard tube from inside a roll of toilet paper, have had the animal inserted into the rectum. In short, there is almost no end to the strange and unusual, comic and curious, trivial or cruel, silly, bestial, dangerous, stupid, harmless or imaginative things people will do to act out their sexual fantasies, make money, amuse those they love, or exploit those over whom they exercise power.—Malcolm Potts and Roger Short, Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 111
felch verb: 1. an extremely rare (to the extent of being apocryphal) sexual practice involving placing a live animal (usually a small rodent or fish) into someone's anus. Dangerous and cruel to animals. See also gerbil jamming. 2. to suck semen from someone's anus after anal sex.gerbil jamming verb: a form of felching which involves putting a gerbil or other small rodent inside a condom, which is then placed inside a lubricated paper towel roll that is inserted into the rectum. The paper towel roll is yanked out, leaving the bagged gerbil inside, where it will suffocate and die. This apocryphal practice is obviously dangerous and cruel to animals.—Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004, pp. 119, 134
bug-chaser, BC noun: a man who wants to become infected with HIV. From barebacking slang.gift-givers noun: men who are HIV positive and are willing to infect bug chasers. Barebacking slang.—Op. cit., pp. 90, 135
The ritualized acts of sex performed by Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave also demarcate a queer temporality of sorts: the incommensurability of the perceived queer Pakistani terrorist and the white gay schoolteacher is at once the management of the crisis of modernity—the traditional and the modern woven together— and a reaching beyond the typical prescriptions of the past informing the present and the present reverberating back to the past, undermining the temporality of fear that aims to secure the present-future through the future, to a certain kind of futurity, the queer times of now and beyond. Mr. Slave embodies a harking back in time that projects both the future that must be conquered and the future that cannot be overcome—the future and the antifuture. The singularity of each figure lies not only in what they represent—tradition/modernity, white/brown, patriot/terrorist, assimilated/monstrous—but in what they perform, in the temporalities they issue forth. As Mbembe argues, "What connects terror, death, and freedom is an ecstatic notion of temporality and politics. The future, here, can be authentically anticipated, but not in the present. The present itself is but a moment of vision—vision of the freedom not yet come."
RICHARD LEWIS: You are abnormal. You're the most abnormal, jerky nutcase I've ever met in my entire—LARRY DAVID: You think you're more normal than me? RICHARD LEWIS: Fuckin' a I am. LARRY DAVID: I'll have a mental patient face-off with you any day. RICHARD LEWIS: Oh, really? MARTY FUNKHOUSER: Larr, did you stick a gerbil up your ass?LARRY DAVID: Who told you that?MARTY FUNKHOUSER: I'm not gonna tell you that. It's not important.LARRY DAVID: Of course I didn't stick a gerbil up my ass!MARTY FUNKHOUSER: Don't be upset.LARRY DAVID: I'm upset! He's telling everyone!RICHARD LEWIS: Yeah, he sure is.JEFF GREENE: On behalf of my wonderful wife Susie and myself I wanna welcome you, thank you all so much for coming. It means a lot to us, a lot to Sammie. I can tell you that we are very proud of her. (Applause.) I don't wanna embarrass her, and so I'm gonna keep it short and just say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. What we are going to do right now is open it up to anybody who'd like to say something, make a toast, whatever, come on up.LARRY DAVID: Yeah, I'm gonna… I'd like to say something.SUSIE GREENE: Larry?JEFF GREENE: All right.LARRY DAVID: Hey! Well, first of all, I'm so thrilled to be here at Sammie's bat mitzvah tonight…SUSIE GREENE: Thank you.LARRY DAVID: This is a fantastic occasion. You know, I've known Sammie since she… since she was born, actually… I was in the hospital, remember?SUSIE GREENE: Yeah.LARRY DAVID: I was in the hospital that day… And I saw her, you know, when she was, like, five minutes old. It's not a pretty sight for me, it's the first time I ever saw one of those things, you know? Anyway, what I really want to talk about tonight is that there is a guest here spreading a vicious, nasty, scurrilous rumor about me and a gerbil, okay? (The guests gasp.) I'm sure you've heard it, and there's not a word of truth to it, okay? He has a personal vendetta, so don't believe one word of that, it's not true. However, in the interests of full disclosure, I will tell you that I do have a tickle in my anus, and they are slightly related to each other…JEFF GREENE: All right. Okay.LARRY DAVID: It's just not true… I just thought it was important… SUSIE GREENE: Fine, Larry, thank you very much.LARRY DAVID: Because it's just not right that he would spread this vicious rumor about me, okay?… that is untrue. What are you looking at, Tessler? I'll put a fff… fist up your ass, how about that? Huh?JEFF GREENE: Well, if anyone else has a toast, something to say…—Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 6, Episode 10: "The Bat Mitzvah", original air date: 11 November 2007
Footnotes:[1] In Anthropological Linguistics 14:3, March 1972, pp. 97-109.[2] In American Speech, Vol. 45, No. 1/2 (Spring-Summer, 1970), pp. 45-59.[3] In Promethean Enterprises, 1973-1974, n.p.; reprinted on pp. 54-83 in R. Crumb: Conversations, edited by D. K. Holm and published by University Press of Mississippi in June 2004; see p. 53. in the latter edition.[4] See Peter Davies, Sex, Gay Men and AIDS, Routledge, 1993, p. 107; Walter E. Stamm, MD; H. Hunter Handsfield, MD; Anne M. Rompalo, MD; Rhoda L. Ashley, PhD; Pacita L. Roberts, MS; Lawrence Corey, MD, "The Association Between Genital Ulcer Disease and Acquisition of HIV Infection in Homosexual Men", The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1988, 260(10), pp. 1429-1433; Kenneth A. Borchardt and Michael A. Noble, Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Epidemiology, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, CRC Press, 1997, p. 297; Gregory Woods, Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 36; Jonathan Durrant, "The osculum infame: heresy, secular culture and the image of the witches' sabbath", in Karen Harvey, The Kiss in History, Manchester University Press, 2005, pp. 36-59.[5] "La femme est ce que l'on a trouvé de mieux pour remplacer l'homme quand on a la déveine de ne pas être pédéraste." See Boris Vian, Textes et chansons, René Juilliard, 1966, p. 183; compare the gloss by Guy Laforêt in Boris Vian, Traité de civisme, C. Bourgois, 1979, p. 89.[6] See Lisa-Jane Lukies, Sex on the Rocks, Vodka Straight Up!!!, Writers Club Press, 2003, p. 96.[7] Thus Saturday Night Live:
Norm MacDonald: "Well, for the second week in a row, Richard Gere's new film 'Primal Fear' was number one at the box office. Leaving many Hollywood insiders to wonder, 'Hey, uh
do you think that gerbil story is true?'"—Saturday Night Live, Season 21, Episode 18, 20 April 1996
TATUM: You can't prove a rumor. That's why it's a rumor. SIDNEY: Created by that little tabloid twit Gale Weathers. TATUM: (delicately) It goes further back, Sid. There's been talk about other men. SIDNEY: And you believe it? TATUM: Well… you can only hear that Richard Gere gerbil story so many times before you have to start believing it.—Kevin Williamson, Scream: A Screenplay, Miramax Books, 1997, pp. 96-97
While the board of regents worried about any mention of homosexuality on campus, they did not object to homophobia. Jeff Renander, editor of the University of Iowa's conservative Campus Review, brags that during a 1990 Gay Pride Rally, "my friends and I demonstrated against the abuse of gerbils by certain segments of the gay community. (We had a gerbil graveyard with little white crosses, and our infamous gerbil quilt.)"123 [123 John Williams, "Conservative Papers Fill Niche," College News, February 1993, 24.] Again, in September 1993, when the AIDS Quilt was exhibited at the University of Iowa, the Campus Review staff brought out the gerbil quilt. Accuracy in Academia reported the event with approval: "The 'Gerbil Quilt,' consisting of 25 patchwork squares each depicting a gerbil, was put on display in a glass case in the student union along with a copy of The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS by Michael Fumento and displays of statistics from the Centers for Disease Control which showed that AIDS ranks only twelfth among the leading causes of death in the United States. Gerbils were chosen for this quilt because of the role they play in certain homosexual practices."124 [124 Campus Report, January 1994, 3.]—The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education, Duke University Press, 1995 pp. 50-51, 176
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280.11 seems to break google earth for me
As I am a gnome 3 user, I upgraded to 280.11. Since then, I cannot start google earth anymore (segfault at starting, a gdb backtrace pointed me directly to libGL).
I'm using a 64-bit version Linux, and dowgrading to 275 makes google-earth work again (and gnome's extension area not work again).
Has anybody got the same symptoms ?
Re: 280.11 seems to break google earth for me
What distro are you on? On some distros, 32-bit video acceleration, which Google Earth uses since it's a precompiled 32-bit binary, comes in a seaparate package. Depending on how your distro does things, your 32-bit support paclage may still be at version 275. Upgrading it to match 280.11 may solve the problem.
I'm on 64-bit Arch Linux here (I'm a Gnome 3 user as well), and Google Earth works fine for me with 280.11.
Re: 280.11 seems to break google earth for me
Same, archlinux-64 here…
lib32-nvidia-utils-beta 280.11-2
nvidia-beta 280.11-1
nvidia-utils-beta 280.11-1
Re: 280.11 seems to break google earth for me
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Being on the same distro made troubleshooting this one dead easy: the PKGBUILD you're using is defective somehow. When I installed a lib32-nvidia-utils-beta package built with it, Google Earth segfaulted on startup. Build with this one instead http://pastebin.com/QAVVW1qZ and Google Earth will work. It's basically the official Arch PKGBUILD for lib32-nvidia-utils with the package renamed and with the version bumped to 280.11. I've already posted about this in the AUR entry for lib32-nvidia-utils-beta http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19453.
Re: 280.11 seems to break google earth for me
Yeah, problem solved. Thanks a lot :)
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The Kingston Yellow Jackets and Lady Jackets defended their home court in style Thursday night, as both squads picked up victories over county rival Oliver Springs.
Monday night was a good night for the Rockwood Middle School Tigers and Lady Tigers, as both squads traveled to Oliver Springs and picked up victories over the Bobcats and Lady 'Cats.
The Harriman Blue Devils and Oakdale Eagles renewed their longtime rivalry Tuesday night and both communities would have a little bit to be happy about following a split.
The Roane State Raiders picked up a hard-fought victory Monday night as Randy Nesbit's squad picked up a 98-91 win over Gadsden State.
The Kingston basketball teams picked up a non-district sweep with a pair of wins over Wartburg Tuesday night.
The Lady Jackets enjoyed a 53-36 win, while the Kingston boys pulled out a 56-51 victory.
The Roane State Raiderettes suffered through a cold-shooting spell over the weekend at the GPC Thanksgiving tournament in Decatur, Ga.
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After dropping a pair of games over the weekend at the GPC Thanksgiving Classic in Decatur, Ga., the Roane State Raiderettes returned home Monday evening and picked up a 95-68 victory over Gadsden State Community College.
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Location: Anaheim, CA
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Duy. You know, like the decimal system.
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Hi, wanna ride?
Joined: Apr 2010
Location: Surf City, USA
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Plans for Saturday changed up a bit when my buddies Arnie Fry and Todd Whiteside said they wanted to ride to the Salt Tram. One of our fellow Baja buds, Ben decided to come along as well.
We left PSR and took the canyon road to Darwin. Since I was on my 525 "little girls" bike and Arnie and Todd were on their 950 SE's, I felt like the rabbit being chased by the hounds all day.
Arnie screaming up the canyon ... those 950's make an awesome sound
Another one of the endless views, about to head down towards Darwin Falls and China Springs.
We got to the sandwash in the bottom of the canyon and ran into Isaac West and his buddy Mike. They were also headed to the Salt Tram and we made plans to meet up later.
First stop was China Springs, it's always amazing the random things that are out in the middle of nowhere.
Todd and Ben feeding the fish
Arnie doing a quick survey and telling us this spot would make a great bar.
Riding into Darwin we ran into a huge pack of guys that were all part of Issac's crew to the Salt Tram. They were all riding kind of different plans so we headed up and over the pass on the jeep track out of Darwin.
Up on the pass, we were just kind of standing around when we heard more bikes, Isaac and Mike came charging around the corner.
Isaac and Mike were heading for Olancha Dunes and we were heading for Cerro Gordo. Once we got back to 190 though, the guys all thought the dunes sounded fun. So off we went into what turned into a 20 minute ride of wind hell ... direct head wind with big gusts of sand.
But we made it. Ben and Arnie taking a sand blast cleaning
Arnie heading off to the unknown
We started to get the feeling that medium Todd could have stayed there all day bombing away on his 950
After riding to the dunes and charging in the deep sand, gas stop in Olancha was needed. Pulling out of the gas station we ran into Isaac and Mike again so we joined up and headed for the Salt Tram.
Ben, Mike and Isaac
the hounds
Turned out that Isaac and Mike planned to ride to the Salt Tram via Swansea Road. Ben, Arnie and Todd decided to ride up Cerro Gordo Rd instead and I joined Isaac and Mike.
Swansea Rd was pretty thrashed and I felt much better about the bigger bikes going the other way. Lots of rocks, boulders, ruts and a few step ups. Mike and Issac (on his new 690) with Owens Valley and the Eastern Sierra's in the background.
First sign of snow along the trail ... further up the snow was across the trail
Isaac looking sharp with new bike and matching gear.
Riding the ridge line towards Salt Tram
At the Salt Tram we found a single bike parked outside the cabin. Inside we found Jimmy Lewis having a snack. He said he had seen the other half of our group at Cerro Gordo and didn't think they were coming up. The caretaker at Cerro Gordo was saying the road was impassable. According to Jimmy there was a spot of road with a lot of snow ... he told us to ride his track through and it wouldn't be a problem. Then he told us going down the east side Cerro Gordo was "blown out". I was thinking windy but it turned out that a big chunk of the mountain came down the river bed and the road was mostly gone.
Mike and Isaac rolling through Jimmy's tracks
Looking back into Owens Valley
We ended up getting back down to Saline Valley Road without incident but I didn't get any more pics. Still kicking myself for not getting a couple of shots of how bad that track was "blown out".
Before heading back to camp, we snapped a couple of shots at the Welcome to DV sign ... old school and older school, notice Isaac didn't let his new 690 get close.
One last awesome view before heading back to PSR and some BBQ.
Life is an adventure that requires the correct equipment
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Location: Northern Karlifornia
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Noob time
Two days of pure fun & lots of riding. Thanks to ride leaders & sweeps as well as rest of the riders. Great group of folks to spend time with.
Joel, thank you for the room was nice to sleep in a soft warm bed at the end of the day
Ride back home to bay area was nice except for strong winds on a stretch of 14 and on 58 all the way to Bakersfield.
Waiting to do it all over again next year
Taking a breather up at the crest.
You mean I have to ride my bike down there !
Rest of the gang including our rider leader
Yet another view from crest
KTM needing some love and attention
Our fearless ride leader posing
View from Augereberry
Group pose up at Augereberry
One more group photo at Augereberry
Nice view from atop Augereberry
Customary Ballarat jailhouse photo
Taking a break @ Ballarat
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Location: Orange County, CA.
Oddometer: 135
Hey Gary, you motored that KLR pretty well with the tires you had on it. It's so ON when you add the Big Block! Good times riding with you. Thanks!
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Location: the garage
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Race track off in the distance
Content, NEVER!
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You meet some of the most interesting people in the desert
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Location: Burbank CA
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thanks again guys for posting your rr. more people should be reporting on their experiences soon.
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dirt around and beyond los angeles
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Location: Camarillo, Ca.
Oddometer: 600
Marissa and I arrived in Death Valley Tuesday around noon, this was the first time that she has been 2 up in the dirt and was very excited about trying it. Turned out to be a great weekend for both of us, thank you to all that made her feel comfortable. 99% of the pictures in this report were taken by Marissa.
We first setout to pre-ride the Aguereberry Point / Charcoal Kilns ride that we would be leading Thursday evening.
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Location: Camarillo, Ca.
Oddometer: 600
Wednesday morning we got up and rode a pre-ride of the Cerro Gordo / Salt Tram ride that I would be leading Saturday. We went out through the china Garden and through Darwin, and took some lightly traveled sandy two track out towards Keeler. We had our first small crash in the sand slowing down for some cross erosion, laughed it off and no big deal.
We then went up Cerro Gordo road to the town and headed towards the Salt Tram. Made it though the sketchy cliff section fine and started making the climes to the tram. On one of the last, I think the last hill climb we had our second and last crash of the weekend, it was a little more spectacular than the first one. Bike was off the road and we tumbled a couple of times down the hill. Again Ris took it in stride and I figured I better be the adult and call it off, so we went back to Cerro Gordo.
Now, my memory is okay for the most part but I completely forgot how bad the road is off the backside going down to Saline Valley. Once I committed there was no going back as I do not think it would be possible for me to climb back out with the two of us on the 990. So we plunges ever deeper into the crap. Road was very washed out and was a struggle for us.
We made it to the bottom and I was looking at the GPS in the middle of a big wash and looked like we had to continue in the wash and head back up. I did not think this was right and walked around and finally leaving Ris and taking the bike to scout out where we needed to go. Finally found the rock stack and the road leading out.
No pictures of any of this, I was told by many more experienced than I not to go up there, I should have took the advice.
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Location: Camarillo, Ca.
Oddometer: 600
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Location: Camarillo, Ca.
Oddometer: 600
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Location: Camarillo, Ca.
Oddometer: 600
Saturday we took a few people on a ride to the China Garden again and out and around Darwin. I let Stoke ride my 500 to see how much different a small bike makes, we are both tall so the bike fit him well and he had a great time.
We got back to camp early enough to watch Jimmy Lewis do his show. Marissa was mesmerized lol.
Found more LOST stickers...
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Location: Camarillo, Ca.
Oddometer: 600
Joined: Dec 2012
Oddometer: 55
The Goose flew 1.500 miles!
First of all thanks to Joel for organizing this. It was a great weekend.
Wednesday, Leo and I left the San Francisco Bay Area for Beatty NV on our fully loaded adventure bikes. Weighed the bike before leaving ... 700 lbs ... ;) Thought this was the real way to experience the Noob Rally.
Was surprised to see how few people actually rode in. Felt more like an OHV park with RVs and generators and small dirt bikes, than a rally of travelers ... That said, still a lot of fun!!
We left at 7am and arrived in Beatty around 8pm. Just in time for award-winning Chilli and PBR in frozen mugs. After that we went to the bar next door for a little enjoyment. Went to bed pretty late.
Next day we arrived at the camp ground and pitched our tents in anticipation of the next day. Our Golar Wash/Mengel Pass ride. Was planning to do Titus Canyon fully loaded but ran out of time. In hind sight probably not a bad thing, left us fresh for Friday.
Friday morning we went out on the Golar Wash/Mengel Pass group ride. The ride to Ballarat was nice and provided more practice in riding in the loose stuff. Golar Wash was interesting and quite challenging. Needed a little push to get all the way up. But she made it. The ride from there to lunch at Barker ranch was fun and the big girl did fine.
At lunch we discussed the further plan and decided all that it would be quicker to ride through rather than return where we came from. Not sure what that was based on ... :( The ride out included Mengel pass, a lot of dirt road and 100 miles of black top ...
At Mengel pass, 4 from our group and the next merged. They helped us and we helped them. It was great to see a well functioning group stick together helping each other. Had to bump start one of the KLRs a couple of times. However, that is what makes a ride an adventure; when the unexpected happens. :)
After Mengel we rode on a gravel road on what seemed forever ... Was getting a little tired. Right when the GPS track ended our ride leader showed up frantically looking for the KLR owner with battery problems and his son. (Later in camp we shared dinner with them and heard that the son had towed his dad on the KLR with his DRZ350 for 100 miles on road at speeds as low as 10mph on the steepest ascends. Think someone owes his son college tuition.) We then learned that we had another 13 miles of dirt and night fall was rapidly approaching. We made it out in time and rode the 100 road miles back to camp. Arrived at 9pm and ate the left overs tired after a long and exciting day.
Needed help a few places, but made it through in one piece. This was a challenging ride for the big goose and her rider. But we had great fun.
After all the Friday excitement and exertion, we decided to take it easy on the Friday. Had tweaked my thumbs a little the one time I dropped the Goose. So we took a road ride to the Kilns. It was a nice little trip. Also, found out that my Goose needs new suspension. The rear shock packs up on wash boards ...
The raffle Saturday night was good. All those nice light kits made me wish I had bought more raffle tickets. :)
Sunday morning we packed up the bikes and checked out. We then decided to ride fully loaded to the Saline Valley warm springs. That was a great ride. Especially the last 6 or so miles on sand with a 700 lbs bike was quite challenging. However remembering Jimmy Lewis' advice about riding in balance, steering with the feet, and giving a little whiff of gas if the bike started to be unstable, provided the edge. Still the way in was challenging.
Set up camp and enjoyed soaking in the hot tubs. Got my first shower in three days. Very cool!
Also enjoyed meeting the regulars and hearing their stories. This is indeed a magical oasis in the jungle.
Monday we packed up camp and left at 9am on a long journey home. We decided to take the northern route out. It was a beautiful ride. The sand out from the oasis was much easier. Guess the Goose and I were learning ...
After a couple of hours we hit the asphalt and had lunch in Big Pine. We had decided to ride home over Tahoe. But due to a snow storm we had to change plans and endure 100 miles of strong side wind as we rode south next to the Sierra Nevada. That was really fatiguing. So when we had the change, we decided to cross the Sierras at Lake Isabella. That was a perfect decision; will never cross at Tehachapi again. Finally arrived back at the Bay Area at 2am in the morning completely exhausted.
This was a great trip. The Goose flew 1,500 miles. Completed a very challenging dirt ride, visited an oasis, made new friends. Had loads of fun. First in a long while with no internet and no email for almost a week.
PS Now if someone could tell me how to make my public drop box pictures show ...
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All right guys, a little OC'ing advice needed here. Built the PC in my sig a month or two ago, and while it OC's pretty well (~3GHZ from stock of 1.8GHz is nothing to sneeze at), it seems like I'm hitting some kind of artificial wall. I have read numerous P5B-family OCing threads at places like XtremeSystems and TechRepository forums, but have had no success. I'm hoping someone here sees something obvious that I'm missing, short of soldering the board to get NB voltage adjustment.
The voltage options in my P5B-E (rev. 1.01G) are rather limited. I can alter the CPU vCore, vDIMM (up to 2.1v max), and FSB Termination Voltage only. These boards are known for their vDroop, but a simple pencil mod has rectified that.
I can OC the CPU (running memory 1:1 with relatively loose timings of 5-5-5-15, which keeps the memory underclocked, so it should not be the problem) at
stock voltage
all the way up to ~330MHz FSB. Adding vCore beyond this point only gets me a slight OC improvement (340MHz FSB, not 24/7 stable), at the cost of huge temperature penalty.
Speaking of temps, this board is really hard to believe when it comes to CPU temp reporting. Flashing different BIOSes has altered the reported CPU temps, as has turning on/off "PECI" in the BIOS. Sometimes I can get temps that are below ambient, which I know is wrong. Using CoreTemp/SpeedFan/MBM gets me the individual core readings, which are more believable. I idle in the low-to-mid 20's C (at a room temp of ~21C). At stock voltages, load temps rise to around 50C. As I type this, I'm running at 340MHz FSB/1.55v w/Orthos small FFTs running in the background, and my cores are running at 64-65C (my motherboard CPU reading shows 75C). That's literally a 40C temp delta from idle, which I'm NOT happy about, and is about the absolute max I'm willing to try.
I have vDIMM set at 2.1v, FSB Termination voltage maxed at 1.45v (I don't even know for sure if this has any affect at the relatively low FSB speeds I'm using), and vCore has been tried anywhere from stock (1.325v) to a max of around 1.55v, which is about as far as I want to go on air.
The passive chipset heatsinks get VERY warm, even at stock speeds. The NB heatsink is will burn my fingers when OCing. Adding a 120mm fan (see below) has helped.
Thinking it may have been my old case not coping with hot new components very well, I modded it to add a 120mm fan on the side panel (blowing in over the video card and chipset heatsinks), as well as a 120mm blowhole fan exhausting thru the top. This has reduced the "motherboard" temp my P5B-E reports from 42C to around 30C. I also lapped both my Tuniq Tower and my E4300 heatspreader (they were both surprisingly concave), and while that's helped w/idle temps slightly, it hasn't really affected load temps or OC stability.
So, after all that, any ideas? Am I just missing the NB voltage adjustments? Or does this sound more like a CPU that is just maxed out? This is my first go-round with Intel OCing, after Athlon XP/64 OCing in the past, so am I just screwing something up? I guess I was hoping for something around 3.4GHz with this chip, with its 9x multiplier, or even as high as 3.6GHz, which would be 400FSB, running memory in sync. Maybe I'm just dreaming...
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Tangy Lamb Shoulder Chops is one of my favorite dishes. This lamb delicacy is quie easy to prepare too. Just give this a try and you will be happy that you did.
|Lamb shoulder chops
|2 Pound, cut 3/4 inch thick about 4 chops
|1 Tablespoon
|Hot style catsup
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Dried basil
|1 Teaspoon, crushed
|Onion slices
|Green pepper
|Processed shredded american cheese
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), shredded
Advance preparation:
Trim excess fat from chops.
Brown the chops in hot shortening.
Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and dash pepper.
Place in 9x9x2 inch baking dish.
Spread with catsup; sprinkle with basil.
Top with onion and green pepper.
Cover; refrigerate up to 24 hours.
Before serving:
Bake, covered, at 350° about 1 hour.
Uncover; sprinkle cheese inside peppers.
Bake till cheese melts.
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Spirits and coffee have long enjoyed a collaborative relationship—for as long as liquor has existed, coffee has been there to revive the body after late nights and overindulgences. The creator of the Irish coffee (and later, the espresso martini) must also be commended, for it was that imaginative bartender who first commingled fine spirits and potent coffee in the same glass, thereby creating a libation that kept the soiree going late into the night (and long before the advent of Red Bull and vodkas, no less).
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Glass Kona Vodka
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St. George NOLA Coffee Liqueur
After one sip of this coffee liqueur, you might believe a mad scientist is at the helm of California's St. George Spirits. And you'd be right—sort of. Lance Winters, the company's master distiller, was a nuclear engineer before shifting his energy and attention to a decidedly more delicious vocation. But NOLA Coffee Liqueur is actually the brainchild of Winters's colleague, Dave Smith, who wanted to create a spirit that paid tribute to New Orleans's unique style of coffee. This sweet and balanced liqueur is made with French chicory root, Madagascan vanilla, and Ethiopian coffee beans from Oakland's Jewel Box Coffee Roasters. It's delicious neat and makes for an amazing after-dinner drink, one that pairs beautifully with the soulful blaring of a brass band.


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Dating over 100 years: Part III, It was work
By Shalee Hanson
The question: What was dating like then, and what is it like now?
This segment was the most difficult to write. When you ask middle-aged men and women if they would tell you about what dating was like when they were in high school, three in four adults will make some reference about not wanting to relive their dating years. I even had someone tell me, and I quote, "Sorry, a million dollars isn't enough to make me relive the dating years!"
Once I did find some people who would answer my questions, they agreed to do so under the condition that I not use their names. I will respect their privacy.
The picture that was painted by these people made dating seem like a movie. It was common for couples to meet up and go out after football games and go to the local restaurant to enjoy a meal together or go out as groups to the movies.
There was no clearcut definition of the relationship during this time. Instead of changing your Facebook relationship status, class rings were traded or the girl wore her boyfriend's letterman's jacket as a sign that she was off the market.
Marriage and family were very important aspects of society at that time, so people invested a lot more in their relationships early on. It wasn't uncommon to be married before you graduated from high school. One of the people with whom I spoke was married at 17, dropped out of high school, and then went back and earned her GED with several of her friends. She and her husband have been married for 41 years.
During this time period, more rules set in place when it came to dating. Often, students abided by curfews and were never allowed to be alone together in the home. However, though there were rules, parents did not talk to their kids about dating, what was expected of them or what was appropriate.
"I remember on one of my first dates, we were leaving the house and as we were walking out, my dad said, 'Keep your pants on.' I was mortified! That was the closest we had ever come to talking about sex." one woman shared.
"There was no communication or information available to us about sex, or what was healthy and what wasn't. You just kind of learned from what your friends told you or your own experiences. It wasn't easy to talk to your parents about that stuff," shared another.
This generation began to see a lot more drama than their parents did. Girls would try to steal each other's boyfriends or get in the middle of relationships. Rumors around school became a problem, but the problems were more personal.
"It's not like it is now, where you post something on the Internet for everyone to see. We dealt with a lot of rumors, but the problems tended to stay between the people the conflict involved, not just anyone. But you're always going to have drama when teenage girls are involved," one interviewee said.
This generation viewed the improvements in technology as both a blessing and a curse.
"In a way, I'm jealous. There are so many more ways for people to be close to each other when they can't actually be close to each other," said another young lady.
"Technology is great, but it's dangerous. Relationships are not easy, and you're not going to be happy all the time. Technology just makes it easier for people to go try and find their happiness elsewhere. It's actually really sad," said one young lady.
The lives of this generation weren't as simple as their parents' were. People dated around – that was normal – but it was much more common to be in a serious relationship. All those interviewed stressed the kind of work they had to put into their relationships and expressed fear for the generations to come.
The advice from our baby boomers:
"Be gentle with each other's hearts. Don't date someone just to date them. Relationships take a lot of work. You're not going to be happy all the time, but you have to invest in it. You get out of a relationship what you put into it," said one baby boomer.
"Be observant; do not put blinders on and think that you can change a person. You've got a thousand different ways to communicate with each other; use them. Learn to trust each other, and talk to your parents. We've been there," said another.
"If it feels wrong, then it probably is. Avoid people who are jealous or controlling; you don't want to spend 40-plus years with someone who is smothering you. We used to invest so much in our families; I dropped out of school to start my family. Now we invest so much into money and education, and then we wonder why our relationships fail. In order to have successful relationships, you need to learn the art of respect, understanding, and tolerance," one said.
Each person I interviewed had a vastly different story from the others, but each of them involved elements of commitment, hard work, and devotion to their relationships.
For this generation, dating was work.


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Anthony Andrew Jones
Position: TE
Height: 6-3 Weight: 248 lbs.
Born: May 16, 1960 in Baltimore, MD
High School: Patterson
College: Md-Eastern Shore, Wichita St. (school history) (Jones college stats)
Drafted by the Washington Redskins in the 11th round (306th overall) of the 1984 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (14747th overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com
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1986 Game Log: Regular Season · Playoffs · vs.


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David Ortiz hits homer, gets in brawl
Red Sox 10, Orioles 3
BOSTON -- David Ortiz homered in Boston's eight-run first inning Friday night, then got into a bench-clearing brawl with Baltimore reliever Kevin Gregg as the Red Sox routed the Orioles, 10-3.
Ortiz and Gregg exchanged a flurry of punches in the eighth, but neither connected before they were separated as both benches and bullpens emptied for the second time in the inning.
Moments before the fight, Ortiz started toward the mound after taking a second straight pitch inside from Gregg. The benches and bullpens emptied, but nothing developed and Ortiz stepped back into the batter's box.
Gregg got him to pop out, then shouted something as the Boston slugger started down the first-base line. Plate umpire Mike Estabrook immediately ejected Gregg -- and Ortiz quickly changed course, charging toward the mound. Gregg and Ortiz each threw a few haymakers, but the heavyweight bout was swallowed up by the mass of players rushing onto the field.
It took more than 15 minutes to restore order and sort out the ejections. Gregg and Ortiz were tossed, as well as Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Baltimore reliever Jim Johnson.
Estabrook couldn't quite reach Ortiz in time to stop him from getting to Gregg. The benches and bullpens cleared again as Boston fans cheered "Pa-pi! Pa-pi!"
The Orioles, who allowed 10 or more runs for the fourth time in five games, were flustered after the Red Sox sent 13 batters to the plate in the opening inning and tagged starter Zach Britton for seven earned runs on six hits and two walks. Ortiz hit a three-run shot.
It was Boston's fourth straight win, and it extended Baltimore's losing streak to five.
Britton (6-7) didn't even make it through the inning, getting pulled with two outs after Jacoby Ellsbury blooped an RBI single in his second at-bat.
The outburst of runs was plenty for Josh Beckett (8-3), who allowed three runs on seven hits over five innings
American League
Rangers 8, A's 5 at Arlington, Texas: C.J. Wilson pitched seven effective innings, Mike Napoli hit a first-inning grand slam off Gio Gonzalez, and Texas stretched its winning streak to five games with a victory over Oakland. The temperature at first pitch was 105 degrees, highest in the 18-year history of Rangers Ballpark.
Blue Jays 11, Indians 7 at Cleveland: Travis Snider drove in five runs and Rajai Davis knocked in four as Toronto beat Cleveland.
Tigers 6, Royals 4 at Kansas City, Magglio Ordonez's two-run home run just six pitches into the game staked Rick Porcello to an early lead and got Detroit rolling toward a victory over Kansas City.
National League
Diamondbacks 7, Cardinals 6 at St. Louis: Leadoff man Kelly Johnson broke a seventh-inning tie with his second career grand slam and Arizona's bullpen barely hung on for a victory over St. Louis. Chris Young added a two-run triple and David Hernandez earned his fifth save in as many attempts as the stand-in closer for the Diamondbacks, who have won five of seven. Ian Kennedy (9-3) allowed three runs in six innings, matching his career-best victory total from last season. Lance Berkman hit his N.L.-leading 24th homer and Matt Holliday added his fourth in four games to spark the Cardinals' three-run eighth against three relievers.
Brewers 8, Reds 7 at Milwaukee: Mark Kotsay hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth off Reds closer Francisco Cordero and Milwaukee rallied twice to beat Cincinnati for its third straight victory. Kotsay also homered in the sixth as Milwaukee erased a 4-0 deficit and took a 5-4 lead only to see its bullpen give up three runs in the seventh. In the ninth, Nyjer Morgan hit a one-out triple off Cordero (3-2) to cut the lead to 7-6 but was thrown out at the plate on Corey Hart's fielder's choice. Prince Fielder walked, Casey McGehee hit an infield single and Kotsay ripped a hit to right for the winner. It was Cincinnati's sixth loss in the last eight games.
Pirates 7, Cubs 4 at Pittsburgh: Mike McKenry's first major league home run, a three-run shot in the eighth inning, lifted Pittsburgh over Chicago and assured the Pirates of a winning record at the All-Star break for the first time in 19 years. The Pirates are 46-42 with two games left against Chicago before the break. They have had 18 consecutive losing seasons, the longest such stretch of futility in major North American professional sports history.
Marlins 6, Astros 3 at Miami: Hanley Ramirez continued his recent torrid hitting with three hits and three RBI and Javier Vazquez (5-8) pitched seven solid innings as Florida defeated Houston. Ramirez is hitting .448 with three home runs and 11 RBI in July.
Rockies 3, Nationals 2 at Washington: Jason Hammel pitched into the seventh inning for his second win in 13 starts and Colorado beat Washington to end a five-game losing streak.
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